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The Care Paradox - simple and complicated

When all the dust settles, we will learn much from this experience of COVID19. We have already learned from our clients the importance of resilience and courage under extraordinary circumstances. We can take strength from that. What worries everyone in our Discerning Seniors community of care, is Ontario’s (and Canada’s) treatment of Personal Support Workers and their charges in care facilities. It has become painfully clear that we simply are not caring enough for our senior citizens or for their caregivers. This willful blindness is not without historical precedent. Caregiving has long been an invisible unpaid job, a job traditionally held by a female relative, who would care for an aunt o