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...ba href=/dementia/a/b unit to promote independence and a home-like environment.“It’s something we should have been doing all along, and many facilities have been doing things without calling it person-directed care,” said Plachecki, a member of the Wisconsin Coalition for Person-Directed Care.“At Lakeview, people are often placed here with no choice, and we need to look at what that person wants and needs,” she said.

“We need to do things differently to promote independence, and value who they are and who they were.”A newly-formed Coulee Region Long Term Workforce Coalition will look at family/home approaches in its staff training, said Andrea Hansen, program manager of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Gerontology Certificate Program.

The coalition, which was formed in November, also has a goal to work on retention, recognition and recruitment of long-term care workers.Terry Rindfleisch can be reached at trindfleisch@lacrossetribune.com or (608) 791-8227.

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The session starts at 6:30 p.m.

in the community room at 1200 Lakewood Drive N.

For more information, contact Kathy Siegling at 651-770-1111, ext.

150.

Roseville Senior golf league: The Roseville Senior Golf League will hold its spring meeting at 10 a.m.

April 5 in the Rose Room at the Guidant John Rose Minnesota Oval, 2661 Civic Center Drive.

Members must be 62 or older.

Play will begin April 28 at Cedarholm Golf Course.

To register for the meeting, call Rod Davies at 651-489-6254.

Garden club: The Parkway Garden Club of St.

Paul will host an educational seminar on new perennials at 7 p.m.

April 5 in the community room at Heritage Place of Roseville, 563 W.

County Road B.

Starla Enger, owner of My Sister's Garden in Hudson, Wis., will lead the free presentation.

To register, call 651-353-4284.

events Elsewhere Free film screening: As part of a campaign to stop genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, Temple Israel will sponsor a screening of the film "Darfur Diaries: Message from Home" from 7 to 9 p.m.

Thursday.

The show will be held at the temple, 2324 Emerson Ave.

S., Minneapolis.

An information session and action program will precede the screening.

For more information, contact Rabbi Sim Glaser at 612-374-0320 or sglaser@templeisrael.com.

Homebuyer course: A free, first-time-homebuyer course will be held from 6 to 9 p.m.

April 6 at Central Square Com...

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Surely the greatest mark of a civilised and advanced society is how it cares for its old?

The sad truth is that some of the most primitive tribes have a far better care system for the old than we do.

A damning report on our treatment of the elderly by three powerful watchdogs was published this week.

The report by the Healthcare Commission, the Audit Commission and the Commission for Social Care Inspection paints a scandalous picture of how elderly hospital patients are stripped of their dignity.

Hospital staff are criticised for their “deep-rooted cultural attitude to ageing” and “patronising and thoughtless treatment”.

Patients are discharged too soon and their views are ignored.

Meals are sometimes whisked away before they have eaten them.

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Another recent report revealed that thousands of pensioners may lose their places in care homes because of a spending squeeze and how Alzheimer’s sufferers are routinely sedated by ill-trained staff.

In this country, the old and the vulnerable are being piled on a scrapheap of despair.

Pensions are low and falling in value while utility bills and council taxes are galloping ahead of inflation.

The elderly are hit on every count.

Isn’t it time we re-arranged our priorities?

Surely, the priority is to help those who wish to spend the winter of their lives in their own homes.

The very old and the very young should be the first priority of a welfare sta...