Weyburn senior evicted from long-term care home

Sarah Onyango · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 16, 2025 8:45 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

A fistful of friends and household gathered extracurricular the Weyburn Special Care Home connected Wednesday successful enactment of 71-year-old Fred Sandeski as helium was evicted from the facility.

Sandeski, who suffers from COPD, epilepsy and imaginativeness loss, has lived astatine the semipermanent attraction installation for the past respective months.

"The unit are great, it's the policies and regulations that person to change," Sandeski said. "We person to trust connected our governments and they're conscionable not doing it."

Sandeski said that aft 2 wellness assessments, the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) has determined helium does not suffice to stay successful the provincially-run semipermanent attraction home.

"I didn't suffice because I'm not rather sick capable yet," he said.

"When I get sicker, past they're going to instrumentality maine and look astatine it again. I privation them to cognize it's decidedly wrong."

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'Too galore barriers'

Sandeski moved into the care home past autumn for respite attraction portion his woman and superior caregiver, Teresa Sandeski, underwent surgery. 

When Teresa's hospital enactment was extended, Fred was allowed to stay successful the location connected a impermanent basis, paying $50 per day.

Now backmost home, Teresa said she is not beardown capable to attraction for Fred connected her own.

"I recovered that it was getting excessively much," Teresa said.

"I mean, I'm 1 twelvemonth younger than him, but adjacent with my disability, the assemblage is telling maine that I've got to dilatory down, but I inactive person to enactment conscionable to person that other income to beryllium capable to wage our bills."

Fred said one origin successful the SHA's determination is that he's not yet incontinent, thing the mates said shouldn't outweigh his different needs.

"We're hoping that the authorities is going to commencement realizing that they're putting excessively galore barriers connected the debased income assemblage altogether, seniors particularly, due to the fact that this is ridiculous to person to spell done 3 oregon 4 antithetic trials earlier they tin let you to enactment astatine a semipermanent care," Fred said. 

Province says attraction location spots reserved for analyzable needs

In a connection to CBC, the Ministry of Health said semipermanent attraction is intended for "people with precocious oregon analyzable attraction requirements that cannot beryllium safely managed astatine home, adjacent with location attraction oregon different supports."

That sentiment was echoed by Lori Carr, curate of intelligence wellness and addictions, seniors and agrarian and distant health, during question play connected Wednesday.

"I've been advised by officials that Mr. Sandeski has been assessed doubly and does not qualify," Carr said.

The state besides said it has been successful interaction with the household "to find due services that conscionable Mr. Sandeski's existent needs."

Teresa said those services aren't a existent solution.

"The different enactment is constricted location care, which doesn't travel adjacent to what helium really needs," Teresa said.

The mates hopes an objection tin beryllium made and that nationalist enactment mightiness item what they spot arsenic a spread successful Saskatchewan's semipermanent attraction system.

"I'm a wreck. But I mean, I'll bash what I can," Teresa said.