Beautiful story from the Globe and Mail Thursday last. In a place where the unthinkable happens on a regular basis the geniuses who run La Belle are signing a four-year, $293,000 agreement on Monday with Dr Clown, a provincial non-profit organization that sends clowns to visit residents in nursing homes.
As for important stuff, such as ordering staff in cotton head centres to feed, clean and care for the golden agers, that will have to wait.
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this is SOOOOO freakin' embarassing
ReplyDeleteAs usual, sanctimonious bleating from those who have never set foot in a long term care facility and have never spent time bringing joy to residents inflicted with Alzheimer's or dementia.
ReplyDeleteHow on earth did you get onto the Progressive blogroll?
ReplyDeleteThe point, which some may have missed, is that feeding and cleaning are human rights and priorities that are frequently ignored. These are problems not solved by clowns.
ReplyDeleteInsensitive, you bet, but maybe also correct.
I guess you've never met any therapeutic clowns. I know one out here in BC. His work with the dying is one of the most beautiful and tender things I have ever seen. Hospitals pay for this service because of the simple reason it works.
ReplyDeleteJames:
ReplyDeleteWhat makes you think it's a zero-sum situation? Why do you imagine that feeding and cleaning, as you put it, are being ignored?
These people aren't animals. If some quality of life is possible with the use of therapeutic clowns, why the hell not? It's nothing to sneer at, and those sneers are hardly worth a Gathering of the Libs to defend.