Seniors

COMMUNITY – Seniors’ Christmas light tour back after two-year interruption

November 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

The 46th annual Seniors’ Light Tour will take place Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022, 6 to 10 p.m. Residents 55 and over are invited to see the best lights in the city. After the [Continue]

COMMUNITY – City picked to host 2026 55+ British Columbia Games

November 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

Kamloops has been picked to host the 2026 55+ BC Games. Today’s announcement (Nov. 7, 2022) comes on the heels of hosting the 2022 55+ Canada Games, which were held [Continue]

EDITORIAL – City’s $25,000 study is a slap in the face to our seniors

September 8, 2022 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT’S NOT EASY getting old; ask any senior. The City of Kamloops wants to find out what’s needed to make life better for the older [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – I want an improved health span, not life span

July 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

I PROBABLY WON’T won’t die of “old age.” More likely, I’ll die of some disease associated with growing older. For too many of us, health span is reduced by [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – 13 things seniors know about COVID-19 that you don’t

December 18, 2021 // 1 Comment

THERE ARE THIRTEEN THINGS wrong with me. I don’t mean the personality flaws others might see. I’m talking about diagnosed chronic medical conditions. I know there are 13 [Continue]

BEPPLE – Kamloops needs another, more central, long-term care home

February 10, 2021 // 7 Comments

IT MAY BE FORGOTTEN by many that in 2020 the B.C. provincial government announced an expansion of almost 500 more extended care beds across the province. Of these, 100 beds [Continue]

PANDEMIC – Covid-19 pokes the final hole in leaky long-term care boat

January 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

By SHAWN WHATLEY Past President, Ontario Medical Association NURSING HOMES struggled long before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Canada. Now, during the second wave, many [Continue]

EDITORIAL – There’s a dash of irony in the choice of Lake for new seniors job

August 27, 2020 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE NEW CEO OF THE B.C. Care Providers Association is going to be a busy boy. He is none other than Kamloops’ own Terry Lake, whose [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Assault on 71-year-old security guard deserves extra punishment

July 8, 2020 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. MEDIA HAVE A BAD HABIT of stereotyping older folks as helpless; others have an equally bad habit of stereotyping them as irrelevant. Anybody [Continue]

PETERS – Will the pandemic cause us to rethink how we care for our seniors?

July 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

AS WE GET OLDER, our worlds tend to get smaller. By the time we are elderly and perhaps living in seniors apartments or a longterm care facility, our worlds can be [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Pandemic exposes failings of long-term care facilities

June 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

IN 2002, THE BC LIBERALS had a grand plan to provide seniors with home-like settings. Added to that, they promised that the new residences would cost the government about [Continue]

GINTA – Thank-you to the military and let’s restore old-age dignity

June 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

WHEN I THINK OF ‘AGING GRACEFULLY,’ it is not the wrinkle-free skin and perpetual youthfulness that come to mind but living independently and enjoying every day until the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Imagine how different it would be if we’d taken care of our seniors

May 30, 2020 // 0 Comments

THE FIRST LONG-TERM CARE home I ever visited left an indelible impression. I was a kid, and my grandmother Justina Hohm had been placed there when Alzheimer’s made it [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Better than nothing – the Canadian motto for seniors’ care

May 17, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT SEEMS WE WHO HAVE worked long enough to qualify for Old Age Security (OAS) and the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) are going to get a one-time COVID-19 payment. It will come [Continue]