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Volume 16, Issue 20, Week of May 22, 2017
Lifetime Achievement Award
Kathryn Ford honoured for years of volunteer work
Joanne Paulson Saskatoon Express athryn Ford has this way of making things happen. Most recently, the YWCA’s 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient has been immersed in the development and growth of the Prairie Hospice Society, both as chair and member of the board. It’s just one involvement on a long list of community efforts impossible to itemize in an article, but it’s top of mind for Ford as she sits down for an interview. “I really got involved with Prairie Hospice because one of my friends asked me to get involved . . . probably about six months after they had started,” said Ford, whose life has revolved around the law and volunteering. “The group had come together that spring in 2011, when the Bethany Home on Queen Street was up for sale. A number of people thought, wouldn’t that be a great place for a residential hospice, which Saskatoon doesn’t have. “They came together with the idea to buy that property, and it became pretty apparent they couldn’t get organized quickly enough,” she said; for example, they didn’t yet have their charitable number. “The group was so new that I don’t know if we would have been trusted to run a residential hospice. And it wasn’t high on the agenda, I don’t think, with the health region.” The group advocated for a hospice, at first, but then morphed into a program they call a “hospice without walls.” One of the women in the group had a terminally-ill sister in Peterborough, whom she visited regularly. She brought the Peterborough hospice model back to Saskatoon. “The idea is literally what it says, a hospice without walls,” said Ford. “We have trained in excess of 100 people, who with a 30-hour training package will go into the homes of people with a terminal diagnosis and provide non-medical support to them.” Most of those people have palliative home care for their medical needs, explained Ford. Prairie Hospice volunteers provide companionship, offer respite for caregivers, take clients on outings, and watch TV or write letters for them — “anything at all that helps them have a good day,” said Ford. DC052239 Darlene(Continue on page 6)
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Kathryn Ford’s life has revolved around the law and volunteering. (Photo by Joanne Paulson)
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