September 20th, 2008
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Editor:
First, good for you, Stephen Pate, for pointing out that children with autism are being shuffled from disability support to early childhood development. And, yes, what does happen to those children? There are lots of them and more being tested or waiting to be tested. And the waiting time is long. What happens to them when they leave the day care or school system, or when they grow older? We want answers and we want them now, not to be shuffled again. That goes with all children with all disabilities.
Second, and also very important, some of our seniors are very ill in hospital and unable to return to their own homes for their families to take care of them. Why should they have to be moved to a nursing home 25-35 miles away from their family and friends just so the government, any government, can say, “we got everyone a bed in a nursing home”?
This is unacceptable and very unfair to our seniors. Remember we will be in their shoes one day, so look after our seniors properly and give them the dignity and respect they deserve. Nothing less.
Deborah C. Somers,
Charlottetown
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