Healthcare system tragically separates couple married 62 years

In her post, the concerned granddaughter urged her Facebook friends to share her story so that the healthcare authority Fraser Health can reunite the couple.

Ashley Bartyik says the couple spent no more than a few days apart during their decades of marriage, but for the past eight months Wolfram has lived alone in a transitional home in Surrey.

Wolf has dementia and has been diagnosed with lymphoma.

Their granddaughter Ashley Bartyik aired her sadness and frustration at the current situation. A society is only as good as how it treats their most vulnerable citizens, so giving great care to seniors and looking after not just their health, but their hearts, should be of the utmost importance.

CTV News reported that, according to Bartyik, she has received hundreds of private messages from strangers ranging from thank-yous to advice on how to navigate the health care system for her grandparents.

“We’re going through the system blind”.

She said the photo of her grandparents’ crying was taken during a recent visit.

“At that point, he was transitioned to Yale Road in North Surrey where he’s been for the past eight months on a waiting list to be moved into a care facility for complex care”. His wife Anita is at the The Residence at Morgan Height.

‘They need their time together, ‘ said Bill Gottschalk, the couple’s only son.

He cries out for his wife every night while she goes to bed heartbroken that she can not kiss him good night.

Wolf Gottschalk, 83, and his wife Anita, 81, fell in love when they were teenagers living in Germany. On Aug. 25, Fraser Health told the family they are now making the couple’s reunion a priority, reports CBC.

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Adrian couldn’t say when the two might be reunited.

“I think we need to accept that people can make informed decisions. So things may change today, they may change next week, but we’re hopeful we’ll find something available so we can accommodate them”.

She said they have contacted their local health authority, The Fraser Health Authority, for help, but “none of [their] questions and concerns have been answered”.

Bartyik, 29, quit her job in July to help her family cope with what she says has become a “devastating situation (where Wolf has been) shuffled around and lost in the cracks”. She notes that he reaches and cries out for her.

“At that point, we confirmed he would be moved to there”. But that would defeat the objective.

“He doesn’t want us to see him vulnerable, but then he can’t control it and the outbursts start”.