38 — Sunday, February 21, 1993 - North Shore News

Energetic people
needed for Seniors
Advisory Council

IT’S JUST. two years (short one month) since
I wrote to you about the new Seniors Adviso-

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ry Council.

It was new inasmuch as
the provincial government
had set it up in 1990, osten-
sibly to coordinate all the
geriatric action in all cor-
ners of the province.

It probably does that, as
there are cells throughout
B.C., in Vernon and
Quesnel and Creston and
Sardis and Prince George
and Victoria, which meet in
each: other’s territory ail
through the year, keeping
November and February for
Victoria and. Vancouver,
alternateiy. fo

One’ of these _mevtings.
was held at Silver Harbour
lately, in an auditorium well
packed .with council
members and lots of inter-
ested onlookers.

_ The fact that Ms. Cull,
health minister, was prom-
. ised as a speaker raised the
‘anticipation level.

’. Four ‘‘presenters’? had
been charged with reporting
progress down in this corner
'. of the province, and so we
heard Mayor Loucks
describe a useful city incen-
tive first.

He described how city
hall. had. prevented the
demolition of some existing
affordable rental space,
vital to many of the 39,000
seniors who are part of the
_ City’s population.

As: well, a. bylaw was
‘passed. forbidding conver-
sion to condominium status
of .older rental apartments
unless’ the vacancy rate

. therein exceeds 4%. (New .

buildings are exempt from
. this law.)

He praised the contribu-
tions by Kiwanis and. Lions
and such organizations, but
pressed other service groups
to similar effort. Fewer
than 300 specifically senior
units have been built in the
last six years, in this area.

Two. more social service
people have been added to
the city’s complement, and
1’d not realized before that
frail elderly people living in
“‘care,’? or at home sharing
in long-term care, are in
both cases indirectly . sub-
sidized by city hall.

The mayor would wel-
come more volunteer help,
as would Shirley Jones, one
of the founding members of
the Seniors Advisory Com-
mittee, but she insists, too,
that we first learn to appre-
ciate the ones we’ve got.

Volunteers are in fact
vital. to our health-care
system and she suggests we
woo them warmly.

Energetic, open-hearted
seniors of both sexes are

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waited and: needed in
dozens of places. ;

Can you give half a day?

Two halves?

They don’t have to be
consecutive, they just have
to be offered with cheerful
recognition that you
yourself are a lucky dog,
able and with enough extra
luck to spill some of it into
someone else’s lap.

We heard good news
from Don Ross of
Squamish about successful
coordination of seniors
from the Sikh community,
from the Squamish Nation
and from the locals already
organized.

And we heard Joan
Taylor,. of the Capilano
Seniors’ Hub, urge us to
think beyond just physical
health when dealing with
the aged who are isolated in
themselves, depressed
and/or partially handi-
capped.

She longs to see them
more involved in their own
care and the directions of
that care. Poverty coupled
with dependency can start a
downhill spiral.-

When it came to Ms.
Cull, she told us how we’ve
enjoyed one of the best
medical services plans in the

‘world,. but how, like the

Lions Gate Bridge, it’s seen
better days, and that parts
of it are out of date, parts
aren’t being looked after
adequately, and that her
government is committed to
having medical services
when and where we nzed
them.

She emphasized improved
preventive medicine and
that practised closer to
home after local decisions.
We can only wait and see.

PS: But don’t hang
around West Van. Seniors
Centre looking for con-
gregate meals. I gave you a
bum steer. It is properly
Sunnyside Manor, 1495 Es-
quimalt, telephone 984-
9511.

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