REGINA – When Jeff Nachtigall’s 86-year-old father, Helmut, was diagnosed with dementia, his family turned to public long-term care for help. Instead of getting care for their loved one, they found a system broken by the Sask. Party government.
Jeff visited the legislature on Tuesday to share how the Sask. Party's failures are impacting families like his. Within months of his father getting placed in care at Pioneer Village in Regina, Jeff and his family felt forced to remove him due to unlivable conditions and staff who were unsupported by the government. They were deeply concerned about Helmut’s safety and well-being as his health quickly declined.
Jeff has had no other choice but to place his father in a private home, which costs the family an eye-watering $6,400 per month.
"Seniors who have given so much to our province deserve more than neglect in their retirement years,” said Keith Jorgenson, Saskatchewan NDP Shadow Minister for Seniors.
Jorgenson added that the public healthcare workers are doing all they can to help patients but they are starved for resources and faced with a government who won’t even acknowledge the problems in Saskatchewan healthcare.
“Under the Sask. Party, I’m hearing from seniors and their families who are now worried about accessing the long-term care system because of the lack of funding and worsening conditions.
“No one should have to choose between substandard care and a lifetime of debt. It’s unacceptable.”
Long-term care standards have continued to drop under the Sask. Party as lack of funding and a failed recruitment and retention strategy leaves facilities with inadequate staffing numbers and resources. The Sask. Party even removed minimum standards of care for public special care home residents in 2011.
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