News Items tag as: BC Seniors Care

Kelowna woman trying to ensure seniors in care are treated better than her mother was
January 17, 2022 - 7:00 AM

It’s going on two years since Bev Ambler was allowed back into her mother’s assisted living home in Kelowna after being banned because of COVID.
Seniors' lives depend on changing COVID lockdowns in B.C. care homes: Seniors advocate
August 26, 2020 - 1:32 PM

It will take two months before B.C. Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie can collect the data she needs on the impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown and visitation rules on both residents of long term care homes and their families.
B.C. long term care homes facing lawsuits for refusing to allow essential family visits
July 07, 2020 - 6:00 AM

Not all visitors have been banned from long term care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Petition calls on federal government to take control of long term care homes
June 09, 2020 - 7:30 AM

A Nanaimo group fighting for the rights of seniors has started a campaign to have the federal government create national standards for long term care homes.
Fear of retaliation keeping people from speaking about issues in B.C.'s long-term care homes
June 08, 2020 - 7:00 AM

“I just hate being this afraid, even after my mother’s gone.”
Seniors advocates are pushing for permission to visit loved ones in long term care homes
June 07, 2020 - 12:00 PM

More than two months of having long term care residents isolated from their families is starting to cause them harm, two Vancouver Island lobby groups say.
Past failures may have helped protect long term care homes from COVID-19: lawyer
April 04, 2020 - 8:00 AM

The fact that COVID-19 hasn’t yet moved into long term care homes outside the Lower Mainland may be due, in part, to the fact that families of residents already know there are staff shortages and other problems within those facilities, according to one B.C. lawyer.
Why we don't hear more complaints about seniors care homes
March 11, 2020 - 7:00 AM

Recent stories about Retirement Concepts not following the rules and being taken over by health authorities has cast a light on problems that are rampant within the entire seniors care industry.
Expect more troubling reports to come to light at B.C. seniors homes
March 10, 2020 - 7:00 AM

Retirement Concepts is the largest private long term care company in B.C. and has the most trouble with authorities over how it runs its seniors homes.
Dementia villages wave of the future for long-term care in B.C.
May 29, 2019 - 4:30 PM

KELOWNA - With Canada’s first long term care home dedicated strictly to dementia patients set to open this summer, similar facilities are sure to come to the Interior in the next few years.
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