Families, women, are bearing our health care burden
When my mum’s income slid over the GIS threshold ($20k/year), her in-home care went from free to an unaffordable third of her […]
Another Preventable Death in Long Term Care: Only changing the paradigm will change the outcome
BC Seniors Advocate Speaks in Ch’atlich (Sechelt) 62 year old Kelly Ashton died late last year in after a fall in a […]
A Bolder Vision for Senior Care on the Coast
BC Seniors Advocate, Isobel Mackenzie’s visit to the Sunshine Coast and presentation on current issues impacting BC Seniors was well anticipated as […]
BC’s Government has a Plan for Long-Term Care–and it’s Nothing New
We strongly support the ideas of BC’s Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie regarding the need for better accountability in LTC. But what better way to achieve this than a co-operative model?
The Multi-Stakeholder Solution to Racism in Healthcare
We must come to the table with Indigenous communities as equals. Indigenous partners must have a say in every aspect of healthcare delivery that affects them, by creating multi-stakeholder governance models that empower Indigenous communities directly.
Father’s Day
My daughter Maya has been taking good care of the orchid we brought home from my father-in-law’s celebration of life last year, and on Father’s Day, it bloomed for the very first time.