Photo: Whole Way House
The common room in Vancouver's Granville House, an affordable seniors' housing building, has been busy since April 2022, when a pilot project brought services for low-income, elderly residents. Nonprofit Whole Way House has provincial funding to operate the new drop-in programs in four BC Housing buildings in Vancouver. "I think Whole Way House came as a lifeline to many, many residents," said Jen Evans, the agency's team lead at Granville House. "We replace the family that some of them don't have." The drop-ins, run out of underused amenity rooms in the four buildings, address isolation and loneliness and offer assistance so residents can keep living independently. "When they moved in, they were able to live independently, but as they're aging they might be losing some of those abilities. But there's no system in place to support them," said Jenny Konkin, Whole Way House president.
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