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How Do You Know When It’s Time To Put A Loved One In A Care Home?
You may be struggling with the decision to put a parent or loved one in a care home. This is a hard thing to go through, and you want to approach it from a place of love for this person and empathy for yourself. Your parent or loved one could be showing signs of weakening health or motor functions. Maybe you’ve [...]
A Word from our Director: One Year Later, Looking Back at Lynn Valley Care Centre’s COVID-19 Journey
By Noori Shahkar, Lynn Valley Care Centre Administrator & Environmental Safety Co-ordinator To say that the year has been a tough and incredibly challenging one for all of us is an understatement. We are one year into the global outbreak of COVID-19, but at the Lynn Valley Care Centre, we remember it like it was yesterday. And to say that the [...]
Finding the Right Senior Care Center For Rehabilitation
After a serious injury, surgery or hospital stay, many seniors need rehabilitation services, physical therapy and/or nursing care to help them recover. Here's how to find a facility that's right for your loved one.
10 Tips for Senior Care in North Vancouver
When the time comes to care for an aging parent or a senior family member, you want to be sure they are handled with the care, love, and compassion. These 10 important senior care tips will help.
6 Predictions On How Senior Care Will Change in 2020
As the Baby Boomer generation ages, and nursing care options and technologies change, the need for health care services, including senior nursing care, is greater than ever before. Read our predictions.
Living With Alzheimer’s and Dementia in Vancouver
Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and other cognitive disabilities can cause misplaced anger, anxiety, and confusion. Here's how to distinguish them, and find a treatment that keeps everybody safe.
Summer Senior Care & Hydration in Vancouver
As we age, we lose our sense of thirst, which can impact kidney function, fluid retention, skin health, and more. Here's how to ensure your senior loved one stays properly hydrated in the summer months.
5 Benefits of Living in a Senior Care Centre
Moving from one familiar home to another new one can be a daunting transition for our loved ones – but it can also be for the best. Here are 5 reasons you or a family member should consider a care centre.
How To Choose the Best Senior Care Centre?
Choosing an appropriate senior care centre can be difficult. There are many options from long-term care, to respite care, to convalescent care. Here's to choose a facility and plan that's right for you.
Stats Canada: Happiness in Senior Care Centres
A recent Stats Canada study explored nine various aspects of life in senior care, including health, personal appearance, safety, relationships, standard of living, and free time. Here's what researchers found.
Should I Be Paying For Private Nursing Care?
Private nursing services are comprehensive and can include palliative care, respite care, companion care, and memory care. Learn what you should be paying for, and when you can do without the extra cost.
The Difference Between Assisted Living & Nursing Care
Nursing care offers seniors safe solutions when medical needs are present, and at times, is a better solution than assisted living. Learn about the difference, and find out which option makes sense for you.