Adequate long-term care denied to the severely physically disabled.

The government is failing to provide adequate long-term care for adults who are severely physically disabled (medically challenged) such as myself. Newmarket-Aurora MPP Frank Klees took on the issue in the legislature today and afterwards posted a press release on his website.

Local Health Integration Network Failing York Region
http://www.frank-klees.on.ca/Newsroom/LHIN_BrockOct25_2010.htm

“(Queen’s Park) Newmarket-Aurora MPP Frank Klees took the case of 28 year old David Brock to the floor of the Legislature today and in doing so, called into question the competency of the Central LHIN, the organization charged with the responsibility of assessing and planning for local health services…”

My previous blog entry is a reposting of an article I wrote back in May 2009 about long-term care for the medically challenged. It will provide background to this important issue.

Independent living denied to the medically challenged: A true injustice!

Young adults who are intelligent and medically challenged have a right to live independently within their community. However, the government is not adequately facilitating this right, choosing to ignore this obvious need. They currently have no appropriate long-term care accommodations for the medically challenged. I’m a young adult with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (a condition that causes progressive muscle weakness), in a wheelchair and require 24-hour non-invasive mouthpiece ventilation. I depend others to provide my physical care and monitor my well being at all times. It’s discouraging to know that if I choose to live independently or if my parents were to become ill or sadly die; the government has nowhere suitable for me to live.