Local first-time author brings awareness to the exploitation of seniors, disabled and marginalized citizens in communities across Ontario with her book: Is Advocating a Crime? Trust Everyone Trust No One”
Joy Seguin is announcing her book launch on Amazon.ca and Kindle. Joy is a long time advocate for her adult son with a profound developmental disability and a carer for several senior family members. This is Joy’s attempt to inform and enlighten her fellow Ontarians about why they should care about what is and isn’t happening in far too many community care facilities for seniors and the disabled.
Joy’s book, “Is Advocating a Crime? Trust Everyone Trust No One” is a personal experience reflecting the extreme hardship that advocates face seeking accountability and justice for a loved one. As part of a testimonial, Mr. Jim Brownell, former MPP for the riding of Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry, is quoted as saying: “I admire Joy’s passion and efforts, with this book, to tell the true story of her advocacy for others, a story expressing the good, the bad, and the ugly.”
Joy describes the similarities between seniors and the disabled and how today’s care facilities are not much different than past asylums and institutions; how medical assistance in dying is today’s social cleansing; how the power of your voice can influence change; and how simple mindful acts can make a big difference. She describes the extreme hardship family advocates face seeking accountability and justice in the care of loved ones. She describes a journey of numerous owners and operators of care facilities across the province using unlawful trespass orders and visitation restrictions in an effort to silence family advocates and avoid accountability.
“I felt a need to do something by exposing the similarities of ableism and injustices with our disabled and our seniors living in care facilities. I wanted to do something, anything, to try and make even the tiniest difference in someone’s life and perhaps awaken the moral courage within each of us”, said Joy.
Joy Seguin hopes her book, “Is Advocating a Crime? Trust Everyone Trust No One” will be a call to action for a better tomorrow for all Ontarians.
