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Get the Peak to Go iPhone app now available in the FOOD App Store or iTunes COMPLAINTS: Doug Grundle, resident of Willingdon Creek Village and Elaine Steiger, secretary of the Evergreen Care Unit residents’ council, show Get the Peakexamples to Go of food iPhone app now items that have available in the been served to App Store or iTunes seniors in recent months by Vancouver Coastal Health’s foodservice provider.
Seniors take stand on meals Vancouver Coastal Health assures food shortages at seniors residences are being addressed DAVE BRINDLE community@prpeak.com
Advocates of residents at Evergreen Care Unit and Willingdon Creek Village in Powell River are having difficulty understanding how Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) could
allow mealtime food shortages to occur at the region’s two largest seniors care centres. VCH has confirmed that incidents of food shortages have occurred at the two local care facilities. Both are operated under the authority of VCH, which has contracted its food services to Sodexo Canada. “I don’t understand how things could get this bad,” said Elaine Steiger, who has been secretary of the residents’ council at Evergreen for the past three years. “For the last couple of years, most of our meetings have been taken up with the topic of food. Usually it’s the quality, but lately it’s
been shortages.” According to Steiger, for the last several months complaints have been fairly common and the food shortages “border on elder abuse,” she said. Steiger said she even has reports from residents that, on one occasion, some of them were given a nutritional energy drink instead of a full meal. “One day six residents went without a dinner and were given Boost, and I know from complaints we’ve received that shortages are fairly common,” said Steiger. VCH public affairs director Gavin Wilson confirmed the »2
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