National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
One senior spoke about the anxiety she feels not having a family doctor after losing four in the past eight years.
Another, the president of the local seniors centre, asked what she should tell a woman in her 80s crying on the phone because she’s got nowhere to live and is reduced to the indignity of couch-surfing with friends after a lifetime of paying taxes.
Continue reading With no place to live, some B.C. seniors are couch-surfingCKTZ News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Senior residents of Cortes Island now have access to help with simple non-medical, day-to-day tasks through the Better at Home program.
Continue reading Subsidized in-home help for seniors comes to Cortes IslandNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Seniors caring for other seniors are proving a potent weapon in the battle against COVID-19 on the Discovery Islands.
Continue reading COVID-19: Seniors Caring For Other SeniorsAround 29 local businesses and organizations signed in to the second Cortes Community COVID-19 Response Conference. This session was more topical: front line services like medical response and stores, off-island traffic, and enforcing the provincial guideline.
Continue reading Second Cortes Community COVID-19 Response ConferenceNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Quadra Island resident Derik Kidd is grateful his small community has strived for years to create a new seniors village so that he and other elderly residents can remain on the rock they call home.
Continue reading How Quadra Island Mobilized To Solve A Seniors Housing Crises
