The acute care psychiatric ward at The Ottawa Hospital is no place for an elderly dementia patient, says an Ottawa woman whose husband’s condition worsened during the two months he spent on the ward this summer because there was nowhere else for him to go. Read More
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'A waste of health care funds' — dementia patient languishes in hospital because of a shortage of long-term care beds
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