The Hub
Every fragment
70 fragments, rendered flat — not nested under concepts. Motifs like hands or labelling cross the whole arc, so filters do the grouping here, not a tree.
No fragments match these filters.
A Person Until the End
The complete film. A documentary animation about what happens when a person with dementia enters a system built to manage risk rather than see people.
A Person Until the End — short cut
The whole arc in sixty seconds. The single all-purpose share asset.
A Person Until the End — audio
The complete film as audio. The lowest-data way to hear it.
A whole person
An architect, a gardener, a parent. A dementia diagnosis, and three years in which almost nothing changes.
A whole person — audio
Audio only.
Two chairs
Board 14.
The library floor
Board 4.
A photograph, held
Board 17.
Hands in the soil
Board 7.
It was pure magic.
Voiceover line.
You couldn't draw a plan for it
Voiceover line.
A whole person with a whole life
Voiceover line.
Into the system
One fall, one ambulance, and the speed of everything after it. A person whose world ran on rhythm, placed somewhere with none.
Into the system — audio
Audio only.
The face
Board 33.
Across the bed
Board 32.
Talked over
Board 25.
In good hands
Voiceover line.
A place with no rhythm at all
Voiceover line.
To, rather than with
Voiceover line.
The purple dot
Fear gets written down as aggression, and a mark is added that follows a person everywhere.
The purple dot — audio
Audio only.
The dot lands
Silent, captioned, eight seconds. Name written, words written, mark placed.
The dot
Board 39.
The name
Board 37.
The words
Board 38.
Aggressive. Resistive to care. Agitated.
Voiceover line.
But they didn't
Voiceover line.
Sedation and restraint
Something is started, to keep them calm. It was the best next step.
Sedation and restraint — audio
Audio only.
Slats
Board 43.
Held
Board 45.
Prepared
Board 47.
I want to go home
Voiceover line.
Disappearing
More medication means more confusion, which means more medication. Not from dementia. Not from a fall.
Disappearing — audio
Audio only.
The table
Board 49.
The bed
Board 58.
Smaller each time
Board 55.
Not from Dementia, not from a fall
Voiceover line.
It could be different
A quieter room, a cup of tea, someone who asks what helps. This isn't hypothetical — it already exists.
It could be different — audio
Audio only.
Colour comes back
Silent, captioned. The garden at its own pace, not the hospital's.
Blossom
Board 74.
Both chairs
Board 73.
Rooms, garden, dining
Board 65.
A cup of tea
Board 63.
Reminding me to watch the light
Voiceover line.
Built to see the whole person
Voiceover line.
58 beds per 1,000
Down from 77 a decade ago, while that population has grown.
The waitlist has tripled
More people waiting, for longer, with fewer beds available.
284-day average wait
Just over nine months.
+82% wait from the community
From 101 days to 183 days.
The hospital wait has doubled
From 34 days to 70 days — spent on an acute ward, not at home.
45% admitted straight from hospital
Placement decided during a crisis, not planned.
+25% emergency visits
Over the past decade.
28.9% on antipsychotics
National average 24.4%. Recommended target 15%.
Rising every year, while monitored
Up from 24.7% in 2019/20. Publishing the numbers has not changed them.
6% physically restrained
Against 4.7% nationally, and a 3% benchmark achieved in Ontario.
$15k against $100k
Home support costs roughly a seventh of a bed, and is what most people say they want.
What a purple dot actually is
Not a clinical finding. An administrative staff-safety flag, applied without accountability and very hard to remove.
The laws that decide
Three pieces of BC legislation determine when a person's choices can be overridden, and how easily.
The Views at St. Joseph's, Comox
A real facility, operating now, built around small communities and flexible routines — with medication reduced on arrival.
Fund home support properly
Most people want to stay at home, and it costs a fraction of a bed.
Make emergency and acute care dementia-accessible
Bright light, noise and speed are not neutral. For a person with dementia they are the cause.
End default restraint
Chemical and physical restraint are used as first responses, not last ones.
Make consent mean something
Discretion under the Mental Health Act and Adult Guardianship Act is wide and rarely reviewed.
Stop treating families as obstacles
The people who know someone best are routinely the last consulted.
Independent oversight, with lived experience at the centre
Labelling, restraint and consent overrides operate with no external monitoring and no route of appeal.
Why we made this — in conversation with Health Justice
A short conversation with the team behind the listening report: what they heard, why it matters, and what they want done about it.