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A Person Until the End
A documentary animation about what happens when a person with dementia enters a system built to manage risk rather than see people.
The Purple Dot
Confusion and fear are written down as aggression. A purple dot is added to Sidney's chart and room door.
Aggressive. Resistive to care.
The moment the words are written and the dot lands. Works with no setup.
The dot lands
Silent, captioned, sub-10s. Name written, words written, dot placed. Built for muted feeds and WhatsApp.
The Purple Dot — audio
Audio-only chapter. Lowest-data format available.
The name
Board 37. A hand begins writing on the chart. Only the name so far.
The words
Board 38. Two phrases added beneath the name.
The dot
Board 39. The mark is placed. The hero frame of the project.
Give us space
Boards 40–42. The family member tries to explain how things are done at home.
Aggressive. Resistive to care. Agitated.
Voiceover line. The three clinical words that reframe fear as threat.
But they didn't
Voiceover line. Advocacy met as interference.
Antipsychotics without a psychosis diagnosis
BC's rate sits well above both the national average and the recommended target, and has risen every year.
What a purple dot actually is
Not a clinical finding. An administrative staff-safety flag, applied without accountability and extremely difficult to remove.
Independent oversight of labelling and restraint
Alert policies operate with no external monitoring and no route of appeal for the person labelled.
Life Before — The Light
An architect teaches a seven-year-old to watch how light moves across a floor.
Watch the light
Board 1.
The library floor
Board 4.
It was pure magic.
Voiceover line.
Life Before — The Light — audio
Audio-only chapter. The lowest-data way to hear this.
Life Before — The Garden
A garden you can't draw a plan for, and a joke that lands a beat late.
Hands in the soil
Board 7.
The garden, together
Board 10.
You couldn't draw a plan for it
Voiceover line.
Life Before — The Garden — audio
Audio-only chapter. The lowest-data way to hear this.
Still Themselves
A dementia diagnosis. Then three years in which almost nothing changes.
Still Themselves
A dementia diagnosis. Then three years in which almost nothing changes. Standalone vertical cut.
Two chairs
Board 14.
A photograph, held
Board 17.
The same chair
Board 12.
A whole person with a whole life
Voiceover line.
Still Themselves — audio
Audio-only chapter. The lowest-data way to hear this.
The Fall
One night, an ambulance in the driveway, and the speed of everything that follows.
The Fall
One night, an ambulance in the driveway, and the speed of everything that follows. Standalone vertical cut.
The night everything changed
Ambulance light crossing a house. Sub-10s, silent, captioned.
2023
Board 19.
The chair, empty
Board 23.
In good hands
Voiceover line.
The Fall — audio
Audio-only chapter. The lowest-data way to hear this.
Into The System
A person whose world ran on rhythm, placed somewhere with none at all.
The corridor
Board 34.
The face
Board 33.
Across the bed
Board 32.
Talked over
Board 25.
A place with no rhythm at all
Voiceover line.
To, rather than with
Voiceover line.
Into The System — audio
Audio-only chapter. The lowest-data way to hear this.
The Sedation
Something has been started, to keep them calm. It was the best next step.
The Sedation
Something has been started, to keep them calm. It was the best next step. Standalone vertical cut.
Slats
Board 43.
Held
Board 45.
Prepared
Board 47.
I want to go home
Voiceover line.
The Sedation — audio
Audio-only chapter. The lowest-data way to hear this.
Disappearing
More medication means more confusion, which means more medication.
Disappearing
More medication means more confusion, which means more medication. Standalone vertical cut.
The loop tightens
Dose, stillness, dose. The same cycle repeating faster.
The table
Board 49.
The bed
Board 58.
Smaller each time
Board 55.
Letting go
Board 56.
Not from Dementia, not from a fall
Voiceover line.
Disappearing — audio
Audio-only chapter. The lowest-data way to hear this.
The Garden, What If
What if, that first night, there had been a quieter room and a cup of tea.
The Garden, What If
What if, that first night, there had been a quieter room and a cup of tea. Standalone vertical cut.
Colour comes back
The garden at its own pace, not the hospital's.
A quieter room
Board 62.
Rooms, garden, dining
Board 65.
A cup of tea
Board 63.
Built to see the whole person
Voiceover line.
The Garden, What If — audio
Audio-only chapter. The lowest-data way to hear this.
A Person, The Entire Time
They could still be here. Making a lame joke. Reminding me to watch the light.
A Person, The Entire Time
They could still be here. Making a lame joke. Reminding me to watch the light. Standalone vertical cut.
Watch the light
Light crossing a floor, exactly as it did at the start.
Blossom
Board 74.
Both chairs
Board 73.
Reminding me to watch the light
Voiceover line.
A Person, The Entire Time — audio
Audio-only chapter. The lowest-data way to hear this.
long-term care beds per 1,000 people aged 75 and over in BC
Down from 77 a decade ago, while the population of that age has grown.
a year for daily home support, against a long-term care bed
Home support costs roughly a seventh of a bed, and is what most people say they want.
increase in emergency department visits by people aged 75 an
Over the past decade.
of long-term care admissions now come directly from hospital
Placement decided during a crisis, not planned.
of BC long-term care residents are physically restrained
Against 4.7% nationally, and a 3% benchmark achieved in Ontario.
of rising antipsychotic prescribing, every year, while being
Publishing the numbers has not changed them.
days is the average wait for a non-urgent long-term care adm
Just over nine months.
increase in wait time for placement from the community
From 101 days to 183 days.
the wait from hospital has doubled
From 34 days to 70 days — spent in an acute ward, not a home.
the long-term care waitlist has tripled in ten years
More people waiting, for longer, with fewer beds available.
The Views at St. Joseph's, Comox
A real facility, operating now, built around small communities and flexible routines — with medication reduced on arrival.
The laws that decide
Three pieces of BC legislation determine when a person's choices can be overridden, and how easily.
Make consent mean something
Discretion under the Mental Health Act and Adult Guardianship Act is wide and rarely reviewed.
Make emergency and acute care dementia-accessible
Bright light, noise and speed are not neutral. For a person with dementia they are the cause.
Fund home support properly
Most people want to stay at home, and it costs a fraction of a bed.
Stop treating families as obstacles
The people who know someone best are routinely the last consulted.
End default restraint
Chemical and physical restraint are used as first responses, not last ones.