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Forgotten Rights: Seniors Not Afforded Equal Rent Protection

Office of the Seniors Advocate is urging the provincial government to act quickly and enforce the Residential Tenancy Act (RTA) to protect the 30,000 B.C. seniors in retirement homes from illegal rent increases and evictions. Forgotten Rights: Seniors Not Afforded Equal Rent Protection highlights the practice of many landlords to ignore the RTA and leave …

Ageing Matters: Listening to B.C. Seniors

The ‘Ageing Matters’ report reaffirms B.C. seniors on fixed incomes are disproportionately impacted by the high cost of living and unable to absorb increased costs for housing, food, medical equipment, mobility aids and other necessities for healthy ageing. The report is based on the issues raised to new Seniors Advocate Dan Levitt during his ‘listening …

Resourceful and Resilient: Challenges Facing B.C.’s Rural Seniors

In this report, Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie summarizes the disproportionate challenges to healthy aging experienced by seniors living in B.C.’s rural communities.  ‘Resilient and Resourceful: Challenges Facing BC’s Rural Seniors’ looks at the differences between rural and urban seniors’ populations and examines a range of services and supports to compare service levels between what is …

Every Voice Counts: Long-Term Care Resident and Visitor Survey Results 2023

BC Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie has released results from the second provincewide survey of thousands of long-term care residents and their family members. The survey covered 297 publicly subsidized care facilities in B.C. and received responses from over 10,000 residents and almost 8,000 family members and close friends. Just over 500 British Columbians volunteered to …

Billions More Reasons to Care: Contracted Long-Term Care-Funding Review Update

In this report, Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie provides a second review into government’s funding of publicly subsidized for-profit and not-for-profit operated long-term care homes and has again found spending differences impacting care for residents, many cost increases exceeding inflation, a lack of clarity on many reported expenses and inequitable funding for capital assets. The report …

It’s Time to Act: A Review of Assisted Living in B.C.

Following a comprehensive review of the province’s assisted living services, the BC Seniors Advocate is calling on government to address the current confusing legislative landscape to protect seniors from significant rent and service fee increases, improve oversight and reporting, and address affordability challenges. Highlights Recommendations For more information Read the news releaseRead the full reportView …

We Must Do Better: Home Support Services for B.C. Seniors

In this report, BC Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie provides a comprehensive review of the province’s home support services and finds they are in need of fundamental restructuring. This second review demonstrates that the program is not keeping pace with the needs of a growing seniors’ population and the service remains unaffordable to a large number …

BC Seniors: Falling Further Behind

In this report, Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie details the results of a systemic review of the impact of rising costs on B.C. seniors who depend on government pensions and ranks B.C. as the lowest in its financial support for seniors compared to other provinces and territories. The report examines the incomes and expenses of seniors …

Hidden and Invisible: Seniors Abuse and Neglect in British Columbia

In this report, Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie details the results of a systemic review of seniors’ abuse and neglect in British Columbia. The review examined the protections that exist for B.C. seniors, the prevalence of seniors’ abuse and neglect, the method of reporting abuse and neglect, and the response to reports of seniors’ abuse and …

Review of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Care Homes in British Columbia

In this report, Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie released the results of a province-wide review of COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care and assisted living sites during the first year of the pandemic. The review examined factors that can influence the probability that a site will experience a COVID-19 outbreak and factors that can minimize the number …