Seniors care and staffing levels below provincial guidelines
Source: Nanaimo News Now, byline: Spencer Sterritt Seniors in B.C. residential care homes aren’t getting the attention they deserve, according to a new report. British Columbia’s seniors advocate recently released their 2017 directory of facilities, which showed only nine per cent of care homes in the province reach 3.36 hours of daily care per patient. The number […]
Inaugural “Care to Debate” seeks best ideas to improve seniors care
What is your number one idea on how to improve seniors care in our country? This is the question that will be asked its first ever Care to Debate event, which is being held at this year’s 40th Anniversary annual conference in Whistler, BC. When it comes to finding solutions to improve and innovate the long term care […]
BCCPA is pleased to welcome its new members!
BCCPA is pleased to announce several companies that have recently joined, and are part of our growing membership. These companies include service provider and commercial members from all over British Columbia. “We are proud of our strong membership base, and welcome the opportunity to work on behalf of our members,” says Mike Klassen, Vice-President of Communications and […]
Public Reacts to #CareCanBeThere Plan to Strengthen Seniors Care
On January 24 CBC Early Edition interviewed Daniel Fontaine, CEO for the BC Care Providers Association, regarding the release of Strengthening Seniors Care: A Made-in-BC Roadmap . In the days that followed, the CBC opened up their phone lines and asked the public to respond. What follows are some excerpts from callers to their open line: […]
Long-Term Care Advocates Call on Trudeau Government to Invest in Seniors Care
OTTAWA, Feb. 2, 2017 – Canada needs to modernize long-term care infrastructure so that we are able to provide the complex care needed by our aging seniors, says the Canadian Association for Long Term Care (CALTC). The Association, which represents approximately 150,000 of residents living in long-term care and long-term care operators across Canada, descended […]
Communities Across BC React to #CareCanBeThere Campaign
Last week the BC Care Providers Association launched the #CareCanBeThere campaign and released a major 180 page report including 30 recommendations to strengthen seniors care in BC. There as been extensive province-wide interest in the recommendations including a significant response to our multi-media campaign. In only 7 days, the #CareCanBeThere video has already been seen […]
Ladner couple celebrates 74th anniversary
Jack and Bernice Ross marked their 74th wedding anniversary earlier this month. The couple live at the West Shore Laylum residential care facility in Ladner. Their daughter Joan Hansell said her mom was still in high school and her dad was a butcher boy at the time they met. “He used to pick her up […]
B.C. Delegation Heads to Ottawa to Champion New National Health Accord
B.C. to receive portion of $3B in new federal funding aimed at supporting seniors care (Burnaby, B.C.) – January 30, 2017 – Representatives of the BC Care Providers Association (BCCPA) are traveling to Ottawa this week to meet with Minister of Health Jane Philpott and Randeep Sarai, Chair of the federal B.C. Caucus. The B.C. […]
Opinion: #CareCanBeThere if we make necessary investments
BCCPA CEO Daniel Fontaine was featured on the opinion page of Vancouver Sun last Friday regarding the need for new investments in seniors care in BC. Here are some excerpts below. Read the full column here. “In Robert Frost’s poem, “A Road Not Taken,” a traveller converges on two diverging roads in the woods. Unable to travel both, […]
