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March 7, 1993 - North Shore News

Committee creates seniors’

THE COLUMNS I most look forward to are the ones
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shouting with laughter one minute, holding hands

commodate both the frail el-
derly and the Alzheimer pa-
tients.

wish list

we take any sort of interest.
Then it’s a big job, and

scary to boot. I think it will be

very interesting for all of us,

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tough times.

Second clioice are the op-
timistic ones, when it is given
to us to understand that old
age is not just a summons
which sends us shuffling off
into the wings, but that it calls
up all our rich experience and
observation to reward us with
a better life.

This is one of those, thanks
to that bunch of experts I told
you about, the Geriatric
Sub-Committee which is trying
to coordinate all the local tal-
ent and excellence that will
provide a complete battery of
tools plus the people to wield
them.

All this on our behalf,

To get going, they had each
at the previous meeting charg-
ed themselves with creating a
“wish fist.’? This wish list
would spell out for all of us
what the committee sees as its
parameters and intentions.

You’d have been as im-
pressed-as I was. Not that the
lists were so long or so dazzl-
ing in scope, but that they
were so practical and ‘so
workable and so cheap and so
thoughtful.

They each have a list of
priorities, of course, for their
separate targets, but they had
additional help from_ the
first-ever complete list of just
what sort of aid is right now
available to North and West
Vancouver seniors.

Would you believe: close to

. 70 agencies to deal with. the .

comfort and resuscitation of
the disabled, the ill, either
chronica!ly or temporarily, the
lonely, the’ confused and as
well the hale and conscientious
. seekers after truth?

An incredible force is on our.

side ail the time, should’ we
, falter. ;
Lorna Lloyd-Jones had sent

the list. along, asking for any .

additions, because the next

. step is to condense all this into
a plain information sheet for
‘you and me, that we can keep
by us: for those awful times
when help is desperately need-
ed. ; ;

A wonderful tool.

Also,. if I may. add, a
-wonderful tool for you who
wish to volunteer some time,
you who are healthy and aware
and engaged in all kinds of
interesting things.

. Please take a good look at ©

your copy and decide just
where you'd like to offer your
lively. mind and = sense’ of
humor and sturdy legs and
arms for a few hours a week.
There are all sorts of needs.

So now for the wishes.

Barbara thought it would

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were available some short and
pertinent courses for home-
support pecple, especially
those dealing with dementia.

Family members would wel-
come similar instruction;
without it their lives are
fraught with uncertainty and
indecision.

She also thought physicians
need more education regarding
supvort services available to
patients, knowledge that would
expand their recommendations
of those services.

Adult daycare is shortly go-
ing to be put under the aegis
of North Shore Home Support
in one. of several steps that are
planned to consolidate and
tighten this service.

Barbara’s hoping for a ‘more :

workable mode! that will ac-

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Sorry for any inconvenience this
may have caused.

An especially sensitive wish,
1 thought, came from Jim,
himself a support worker,
hoping to see night help avail-
able, when the ill and lonely
need to make a_ connection
with the world.

He had another, too — that
caregivers might look for even-
ing and weckend leave occa-
sionally, in addition to day
times.

An ‘interesting projection
came from Pat, wanting to in-
volve the everyday community
in the identification of people
needing help but ignorant of
how to get it. Or people un-
aware that they have changed
and without companions to
alert them.

She suggested hairdressers,
bank tellers, garage attendants,
post and paper carriers as
observers of physical or mental
aberration’ who could be en-
couraged to ‘keep an eye
out,” without a spying con-
notation.

A word to a_ designated
authority might save a lot of
grief.

The whole thrust of these
wishes seemed to me tc spell,
simply, the need for expanded
education of you and me.

We who are well are really
not curious and therefore not
informed about facilities and
programs and the sort of sup-
port offered various’ types of
dysfunction.

It isn’t until we come up

_ hard against it with a member

of the family or that most im-
portant patient, oneself, that

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