Solutions near for elderly couple living in separate care homes: family
VANCOUVER — The family of an elderly husband and wife in British Columbia who were forced to live in separate care homes say the health authority overseeing the couples’ care is moving forward with plans to reunite them.
Ashley Bartyik says her family met with Fraser Health and has decided to move her 83-year-old grandfather into a facility in Surrey, B.C., that’s closer to his wife of 62 years.
Her grandfather, Wolfram Gottschalk, has dementia and lymphoma and is on a wait list to be transferred into the facility where Anita lives, but they currently live about a half-hour drive apart and cry whenever they see each other.
Bartyik captured their emotions in a photo last week and posted the picture online, where it has been shared thousands of times and made headlines around the world.