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Continence concerns for aging population
The New Zealand Continence Association (NZCA)
is calling on the Government to address concerns about continence services
available for over-65 year olds.
This follows a review of New Zealand’s
Aged Care Services last week which highlighted the need to address services
for our aging population. The report stated over the next 15 years, our
over-65 population will increase by 84 per cent.
Of the 600,000 New Zealanders who currently
suffer from continence issues, 260,000 are over the age of 55 and an additional
15,000 live in residential aged-care facilities.
According to NZCA Executive Officer, Jan
Zander, an aging population will exacerbate the demands on continence
services that are already stretched and administered independently by
21 District Health Boards. Services and products available to continence
sufferers can also vary from region to region.
“Living with continence issues is already
a challenge for over-65s, who should be entitled to the same level of
service and product irrespective of where they live. A national standard
will address this,” said Mrs Zander.
The NZCA also believes that the long-term
benefits will outweigh the time and resource invested by the Ministry
of Health in creating a national standard.
“Early intervention for over-65s has
proven to be successful and will ultimately provide a better quality of
life for individuals, and significant financial savings for District Health
Board,” concluded Mrs Zander.
Over 100 medical and continence specialists
will be meeting in Auckland from 16-18 September for the annual New Zealand
Continence Association Conference. A report titled “Continence Services
in New Zealand – A Call for Action Paper” includes these findings
and recommendations.
Dogmatic medical attitude continues to
cost lives
Following last nights 60 minutes’ hard
hitting documentary on the continuing medical dogma of refusing to even
acknowledge the possibility of benefits to patients from the use of high-dose
vitamin C, visiting vitamin C expert Dr Thomas Levy said “that such
opposition is without any credible scientific basis and it makes one wonder
whether the opponents of Vitamin C therapy really have quality patient
care as their priority”.
The biggest question that needs answering
is not whether vitamin C is effective, it is how can doctors and Health
Boards ethically and legally continue to refuse to administer a MedSafe
sanctioned, registered medicine to those that need it or are asking for
it?
DHB advisor David Gallaher stated that the
doctors and DHBs are in the business of being real and honest, yet they
refuse to acknowledge the wealth of information, expert opinion and decades
of safe and successful clinical use of high-dose vitamin C. They instead
choose to hold fast to ego, arrogance and erroneous assumptions that vitamin
C may be harmful.
Medical doctors Professor Ian Brighthope
and Professor Anvi Sali and others around the globe confess to have been
quietly, yet very successfully, administering high-dose vitamin C therapy
for in excess of 30 years. Quietly, not because of the potential risk
their treatments pose to patients, but because of the ridicule and risk
of investigation by the health authorities generated by any public or
media awareness of their safe and effective treatments.
There are many with educated and qualified
options around the world joining the voices of concerned New Zealand citizens,
those that have survived their illness thanks to vitamin C, and those
that have lost loved ones that were refused such a simple, safe and potentially
life-saving treatment as vitamin C in saying that this situation is an
outrage and nothing short of professional arrogance and neglect.
Dr Levy, cardiologist, associate professor,
lawyer and author, will be speaking about Vitamin C, use, myths, safety
and efficacy on Friday 17th September, 7.30pm at Auckland Girls Grammar,
Howie St, Ponsonby. Secure your ticket online at www.iticketexpress.co.nz.
Dr Levy has made a special complimentary seat offer to doctors who would
like to hear real and honest information about the benefits and safety
of vitamin C therapy. The Vitamin C Can Cure Coalition extends the same
offer to nurses. Health professional - call 0800 1 48 48 48 to register
your interest.
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