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SENIORS want to continue to live independent lives in their
communities, preferably in their own homes. And with a
little help from family, friends and community services the
majority of them can do just that. .

The North Shore Senior Services
Providers’ Forum, which last year
identified specific needs of seniors
on the North Shore and recom-
mended priority actions, has been
actively stimulating the develop-
ment of services in the community
that promote healthy, secure, in-
dependent living. A number of
programs are now underway.

North Shore Keep Well, Jaunch-
ed by a well-attended fair in
September, is an example of a
community program that addresses
both the social and physical needs
of seniors.

The preventative health promo-
tion program has received an 18-
month grant from New Horizons
for co-ordinator Lynne Coxe, who
works with seniors and community
groups to identify needs and set up
programs.

Volunteers participate in train-
ing sessions to equip them with the
skills to lead fellow senigrs-in ac-
tivities such as health monitoring,
exercise, hand massage, relaxation
and imagery at the Monday ,
weliness drop-ins at the North |
Shore Neighbourhood House.

The Monday sessions also pro-
vide nutritional counselling and a
hot lunch, as well as speakers on

“topics ranging from nutrition to

NEWS photo Terry Palers

The best years

NORTH SHORE Keep Well walkers hit the hiking trail in North Van-
couver’s Murdo Fraser Park. The group meets every Monday us part of
the community program's effort to meet the social and physical needs of
local seniors,

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the role of humor and laughter in
good health.

North Shore Keep Well will ex-
pand to West Vancouver in
January with Thursday morning
drop-ins at the West Vancouver
Senior Centre. Plans are also
underway. for a program in the
Upper Lonsdale area.

“We have an excellent board of
directors made up of retired
members of the community,"’ says
Cove. ‘Participants will gradually
assume more and more responsi-
bility for the direction and ad-
ministration of their programs.
Our goal is an effective, efficient

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network of programs and services
directed by the people they serve.”’

The Congregate Meal Program
is another cost-effective service
that recognizes the link between
good cating habits and social in-
teraction in promoting and main-
taining physical and emotional
health.

The pilot project, sponsored by
the North Shore Home Support
Services Society (NSHSSS) and the
Long Term Care Program, pro-
vides a hot dinner ‘and social pro-

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building in North Vancouver in
December and the Kiwanis Club is
considering a similar program for
its self-contained apartment
buildings.

The assistance provided by their
families is a major factor in enabl-
ing seniors to live at home as long
as possible. But the pressures and
emotional stress experienced by
those who care for elderly family
members are not always recogniz-
ed.

A group of North Shore seniors,
with the assistance of the North
Shore Committee on Service to the
Aging, has applied for federal New
Horizons funds for a Counselling
and Support Program for Senior
Care Givers. .

“There has been great support
for this proposal within the com-
munity and we now have our core

The assistance provided by their families is a major

as possible.

gram (wo evenings a week for 25
seniors in a West Vaacouver
meeting room.

Participants pay for the cost of
their meals, which are prepared by
the Lions Gate Hospital kitchen
and delivered by volunteers.

The program will be extended to
the Twin Towers apartment

_ factor in enabling seniors to live at home as long

committee in place,'’ says NSHSSS
administrator Barbara Miller.

NSHSSS and Margaret Fulton
Centre are advising the group, ,-
which hopes to begin its program
in the spring.

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