His grandmother died after a care fell at home. She is still insisting on the answer
About seven months after Angelina Geraldi’s death, her family is not close to understanding what happened after falling out of bed in her long -term care feature just before Christmas.
The 97-year-old died in ChSLD Lasalle after less than a day and coroner investigated his death-referring to the case to the Mantriial police.
Since then, Garaldi’s family says they have been left in the dark.
“They are not allowed to explain who was working. They are not allowed to explain what is going on.”
She says that all CHSLD employees were ready to say that systematic, or Prépoosées Aux Bénéoticiaires (PAB), working that night was suspended. He was also told that the nurse on duty was working in two floors and when the incident took place, Costallo said on the break.
A decline at her daughter’s house inspired Geraldi’s move in Lasel Long-Term Care Home a few years ago. Fracturing his hip and legs, the garaldi needed a clock care and he was completely careful on the house staff so that he could help go from bed and to his wheelchair.
An early reser, the geraldi was usually one of the first residents who used to get ready in the morning. But when Costallo came to the pop for a quick journey after an examination in the school last December, her grandmother was still in bed and she was surrounded by staff.
“The pain was painful in his leg,” Costelo said. “They were trying to find out what happened.”
In December 2024, 97 -year -old Angelina Garaldi fell out of bed overnight while staying in Lasel. He died after less than 24 hours. Since then, his family says that he has been left in the dark.
Another resident told Costeello that he heard Garaldi calling for help during the night, but no one responded for hours. He told them that he was a buzz for an orderly who came to help him.
Costelo said that her grandmother was not a little woman, so she would have a lot of strength to lift her from the floor and bring her back to her bed.
“There was an injury to his hand, his legs were hurt and the legs that were already fracturing were worse. It was not able to move it. It could not be touched,” Custello said, who recently graduated to graduate from a home care assistance program PAB Self.
If a resident has fallen, it is believed that the nurse should be informed before any effort is raised to avoid further injury.
But unlike the protocol, Costallo said that the employees of the day did not know that his grandmother had fallen until another resident told him the next day. There was no handover note about the incident, Costelo said.
Mortance lawyers say that protocols do not always respect
Although the province publicly committed to improving the quality of care in CHSLDs after the Covid-19 epidemic in CHSLDs, Medical Mortance Advocate, Patrick Martin-Meard generally said, it is still lacking.
Lack of personnel is often convicted, but Martin-Meerd said it deepens.
He says that there is a culture of inadvertence and inadequate monitoring of elderly people who often occur in a delicate position or at the end of their lives.
He said that accidents are common and protocols are not always honored.
“I have great respect for those who work in healH-look The system, this is a very difficult situation, it is a very stressful environment, “Martin-Meenard said.
“Within Cubek Health care The system, often situations where people who are assigned to the weak people do not take care of these weak people as they need. ,
They say that strict monitoring is required to keep accidents minimal.
He said it would be important to find out whether the employee was an employee of CHSLD on the shift on the night of the Garaldi’s accident or a PAB from a private agency.
“Often when they appeal to people of agencies, there is an issue of training or proper familiarity with the current protocol,” said Martin-Meerd.
At the end of 2023, Quebec passed a law that would be Gently phase out the use of private agencies In both hospitals and CHSLDs by 2026.
Unlike nurses, PABs are not part of a professional order, a registered nurse Natli stake-ducket says, which teaches full time at Montreal’s Nursing School University.
As long as the orderly is not trained by the head nurse or a formal training from the local health authority, she says “she does not necessarily know what to do really do.”
He said that a decline is considered an accident, meaning that the nurse should be informed on the charge and a report of an incident should be filed. The report should include a physical evaluation of the patient he says, and the measures taken in it should be included, such as informing the family or calling a doctor.
The family waited for a long time
While Garaldi was generally happy with the care of employees provided in CHSLD LASALLE during day and evening, Costelo said that his grandmother “Khunkhar” NightsAs the facility was often small-Employee,
Costello said to return on the bed. She says that these issues were taken care of at least five times, last time, a few months before her death with the administration of the house. But Costelo says it did not really improve.
She suspects CHSLD, in which 202 residents are spread over three floors, small-Employee His grandmother fell at night.
“You would have a camera in the room,” Costelo said.
After Garaldi’s collapse, a doctor ordered an X-ray at Lasel Hospital the next morning. Instead of waiting for him in a hospital hallway, Geraldi was sent back to his bed in CHSLD until his transfer.
But till 6 pm on December 18, Garaldi died less than 24 hours after falling.
“It was very shocking,” Costelo said. “She did not go a day without traveling to anyone. And we saw her on the first day on the 17th. She was fine.”
Costello saidMontrealWhich oversees CHSLD LASALLE, but is not expected that it will give rise to any meaningful change.
The family waits for the investigation of the Quebec Koroner
CIUSS de l’St-l’-l-de-Montreal expressed his condolences to the family of Geraldi.
In an email to CBC News, a spokesman of the agency refused to comment on the case due to the ongoing investigation, and did not answer questions about whether the employee is still suspended or if there was any change in the house since the care of Garaldi.
Between March 2022 and April 2025, CIUSS de l’At-de-l’-l-de-montreal said that care has been made by five complaints and three intervention made by the complaint commissioner related to negligence by the house staff.
Lastly last month, Service Day Police Day La Wil Day Montreal ,SPVM) determined that no criminal elements were involved in the death of Geraldi. As a result, the investigation is now completely in the hands of the coroner’s office which will only confirm that an investigation is on.
Costeello says that his entire family is eagerly waiting for the coroner’s report, not only what happened and to mourn what is happening properly, but also to raise awareness about what is happening in CHSLDS.
She worries what is happening to those residents who do not have the support system or family who can advocate them.
Through her own training as a PAB, she says that not everyone is compatible with the work.
She also knows that when a patient falls on your watch, it can be difficult that he does not want to help immediately – even if he is against the process.
“But there is a protocol. Just because someone has fallen, it does not mean that you are at mistake for it. But if you make it worse then you are on mistake.”
