I sat down with Sharron Cooke, a resident at Newmarket Health Centre outside of Toronto, and her friend, Devora Greenspon, 85, a resident at Extendicare Bayview in Toronto.
SC: It’s very hard to be bedridden … I was bedridden for the two years in the hospital and I was bedridden when I first came to long-term care, but I have a pretty neat nurse that thinks she’s like my daughter. And she just said, “Look, you know, I want to get you going out of here.”
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