dementia
UPDATE: Body of Salmon Arm woman found
UPDATE: 9:48 A.M., DEC. 8, 2015 RCMP say the body of Mildred Ekren, 76, has been found. Personal information has been removed from the original post. 12:40 P.M., DEC. 7, 2015 SALMON ARM - Police need the public’s help to find a missing Salmon Arm who has dementia. Mildred Ekren, 76, was last seen Monday,...
Coroner’s findings in death of Enderby senior
ENDERBY - Dementia is considered a contributing factor in the death of an Enderby woman. Barbara Nell Derenowski, 73, was found dead March 4 on a logging road near Douglas Lake after driving many kilometres from her home in Enderby. Her neighbours were shocked and saddened to hear of her passing. According to a coroner’s...
What many dementia patients have in common with the Enderby senior found dead last week
VERNON - More people are living independently with dementia instead of in care homes than you might think, says an Interior Health Authority doctor. That includes people like Barbara Derenowski, 73, who drove off from her Enderby home last week without a valid driver’s licence and was found dead days later on the side of...
Why Enderby’s tragic dementia case won’t be the last
ENDERBY - The neighbours of a friendly Enderby senior are in shock after the 73-year-old went missing and was found dead in a remote fishing area far from home days later. Barbara Nell Derenowski lived alone in a rented unit of a house on Salmon Arm Drive in Enderby. Sometime after 2:30 p.m. Monday, she...
Bastion Place dementia patient died of natural causes
SALMON ARM - A 93-year-old dementia patient who wandered into another resident’s room at a care home in Salmon Arm and died four days later passed of natural causes, according to a coroner’s report. Bastion Place staff saw John Edward Young sleeping in his bed at 11:30 p.m. Oct. 2. Half an hour later, they...
Happy ending to missing dementia patient
KELOWNA — An 81-year-old man who walked away from his home at 1 a.m. today was found four hours later. Kelowna RCMP called in the Central Okanagan Search and Rescue team to help find the dementia patient around the Glen Meadow Rd area of Glenmore. They conducted an urban search of the neighbourhoods around his...