Program

helps

seniors Keep Well

On Wednesday’s Lifestyles
front page, Bob Gillingham wrote
a first-person account of his expe-
rience with the Nosth Shore Keep
Well program. Below are some of
the details of the progam's
background

‘AS WITH any stage of life,
growing older brings beth
joys and hardships.

By Peggy Trende!l-Whittaker
News Reporter

On the North Shore, adults
over 50 have a_ thrice-weekly
resource that can help them in-
crease the former and minimize
the latter: North Shore Keep Well,
a largely volunteer-run program
that. was started with a federal
New Horizons grant in 1986.

Siace that time, there have been
over 16,000 drop-in visits to the
free Keep Well programs that run
weekly out of Silver Harbour
Centre, North Shore Neighbour-
hood House and the West Van-
couver Seniors’ Activity Centre.

With slight variations between
each venue, the Keep Well morn-
ings are generally spent engaging
in mild exercise, socializing over
an inexpensive hot lunch, asking
questions of health professionals,
checking one’s blood pressure and
enjoying a massage or reflexology
and listening to monthly guest
speakers.

Coordinator Elise Shepherd says
the focus of the program is
preventive health.

"We have to have people who
are motivated to set gcoals for
themselves,’’ she says. ‘‘It’s time
that all of us learn to take respon-
sibility for ourselves.”’

Some older adults can be
especially vulnerable to declining
health as a result of the emotional
impact that comes frem finding
themselves widowed, retired after

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being active in the workforce for
decades, or in reduced financial
circumstances.

Attending the Keep Well pro-
grams, of volunteering their skills
to help keep the program running,
are both means by which older
adults maintain or improve their
well-being.

But while Shepherd says the
program is continually attracting
new participants, it is on a shaky
financial footiag.

Currently, its $25,000 annual
budget, which covers such
necessities as office supplies and a
part-time coordinators’ salary, is
being supported by interim fund-
ing from the federal New
Horizons program.

When those funds are ex-
hausted, Keep Well will be in dire
straits. But Shepherd has petition-
ed the three local municipalities to
pick up the financial slack by con-
tributing $4,500 each.

“Our program served approxi-
mately 4,200 people last year, and
we project an increase of 2bout 20
per cen: this year,’ Shepherd
says, noting that more than 100
volunteers and 16 volunteer board
members together donated ap-
proximately 4,000 hours during
that time.

The Keep Well program runs
Monday mornings at North Shore
Neighbeurhood House, 225 E.
2nd St., Nosth Van (987-8138),
Wednesday mornings at Silver

Harbour Centre, 144 E. 22nd St., |

North Van (980-2474) and Thurs-
day mornings at the West Van-
couver Seniors Activity Centre,
695-21st St., West Van (926-4375).

Coordinator Elise Shepherd can
be reached by calling 987-8138.

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