Cree family worries about 97-year-old elder, needing long-term care far from home and culture – CBC

Nov 28, 2024

Eva Coon speaks only Cree, but lack of long-term care beds at home means isolation

Annie Bosum is worried that her 97-year-old mother might be sent far outside Eeyou Istchee and away from her language, culture, and everything she knows.

Bosum’s mother, Eva Coon, ended up in hospital recently with COVID-19, but now needs 24-hour care as she also struggles with dementia, hypertension, osteoporosis and arthritis.

“It’s hard on me to imagine her being transferred out of town,” said Bosum, who lives and works in Oujé-Bougoumou, a Cree community located 750 kilometers north of Montreal.

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