 Billboards: Alberta seniors deserve better
UNA members joined in with Public Interest Alberta’s campaign for seniors today when it launched billboards in cities across the province. Noel Somerville, from the Public Interest Alberta Seniors’ Taskforce said the billboards were part of the advocacy campaign to get the government “to address the serious shortcomings in homecare and long-term care in Alberta.”
In Edmonton the launch was accompanied by seniors in beds in a parking lot in front of the billboard.
“The beds and the Raging Grannies are here to dramatize the fact that, unless steps are taken to rectify the deficiencies in care for seniors, we might as well be plunking them in parking lots,” Noel Somerville said.
In Edmonton UNA Vice President Bev Dick was one of the speakers at the launch.
“In some cases RNs are responsible for over 100 residents in long-term care facilities. Many nurses don’t have enough time to do all the things, they feel need to be done,” Bev Dick said.
“This level of commitment to our seniors in our province is disgraceful.”
Nurses joined in the billboard launches in Red Deer and Grande Prairie as well and billboard events were also held in Lethbridge and Calgary.
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