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Long Term Care
Long-term care rally in Victoria delayed by weather and election call
A rally in Victoria aimed at pressuring government to ease the restrictions on visits to…
New $20 an hour workers in B.C. care homes need to be prepared for menial tasks
Thousands of B.C. residents have already put their names forward for new jobs in the…
It’s too late for this pandemic isolated long-term care patient but his wife fights on for others
It’s like a “switch flipped” for many residents in B.C. long-term care homes four months…
B.C. woman fighting for ‘essential’ access to 94-year-old father
It’s traumatic enough to see a loved one’s health deteriorate in long term care during…
B.C. families encouraged to rally for greater visitation rights in long-term care homes during COVID-19
Members of a B.C. patient rights group are calling for a safely-distanced rally in Victoria…
COVID-19 safe distancing rules are keeping long term care residents ‘safe but dwindling’
All Darlene Mercer wants, for now, is to be able to sit a little closer…
Kelowna woman fears mother won’t recognize her again if long term care rules don’t change
The damage being done because of the COVID-19 lockdown of long term care homes in…
Seniors’ lives depend on changing COVID lockdowns in B.C. care homes: Seniors advocate
It will take two months before B.C. Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie can collect the data…
Summerland seniors home will continue to be administered by interior Health into next year
Interior Health took over the administration of the Summerland Seniors Village in February of this…
Running is the new normal for long term care aides in B.C.
Even before COVID-19, life was getting tougher for care aides working in B.C.’s long term…
Locked in long term care ‘prison:’ Woman asks for assisted suicide rather than continue in COVID-19 isolation
After months of being locked up in her long term care room, 78-year-old Shirley Turton…
These two advocates are looking for help to change B.C.’s long term care system
Geir Larsen and Joan Guenther both lost their spouses in the same care home and…
‘Serious inquiry’ needed into B.C.’s lockdown of long-term care homes due to COVID-19
Back in February, 90-year-old Doreen Sherwood was so fit and spry that she had “escaped”…
Want changes to B.C.’s long term care system? Talk to this doctor
There have been problems with B.C.’s long term care system for many years that run…
B.C. woman ‘not getting anywhere’ in trying to help loved one in care home
“I’m not a person who makes waves but I have to speak up, because I’m…
B.C. woman pushed to the breaking point dealing with husband’s ‘unacceptable’ long-term care
Cleonice Biondi is not only fighting to keep her husband healthy in his long term…
Return of family visits in Interior long term care homes is ‘heart-wrenching’ and confusing
While long term care homes in the Interior Health Region are slowly opening up to…
High-risk behaviour continued at B.C. Interior long-term care home after sex assault charge laid against resident
Bad behaviour seems to be continuing at the Joseph Creek Care Village long term care…
Hundreds of long term care beds headed to the Okanagan and Kamloops next year
The province is planning to provide 420 new long term care beds in the Okanagan…
B.C. long term care homes facing lawsuits for refusing to allow essential family visits
Not all visitors have been banned from long term care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Speaking up for long term care residents almost cost this woman her home
Dianna Green has spent the last 14 years living in the Joseph Creek Care Village…
Petition calls on federal government to take control of long term care homes
A Nanaimo group fighting for the rights of seniors has started a campaign to have…
Fear of retaliation keeping people from speaking about issues in B.C.’s long-term care homes
“I just hate being this afraid, even after my mother’s gone.” Those are the words…
Seniors advocates are pushing for permission to visit loved ones in long term care homes
More than two months of having long term care residents isolated from their families is…