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Donât quit the job, at least not yet â thatâs Sandy Seredaâs advice for the unpaid family caregivers her team coaches through Caregivers Alberta.
Sereda joined several experts on an Edmonton Journal panel discussion Tuesday, a final event to close off our focus on seniors and COVID-19. The hour-long conversation was aimed at helping families navigate Albertaâs often complex system of home care. Itâs available to replay at edmontonjournal.com/groundwork.
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Journalist Elise Stolte in conversation with executive director Sandy Sereda and other guests. Register to join.
Author of the article: Elise Stolte
Publishing date: Apr 20, 2021 • 23 hours ago • 2 minute read • University of Alberta associate professor Jasneet Parmar in front of Clover Bar Lodge in Sherwood Park. Parmar points to Clover Bar as one facility that works hard to support and include family caregivers despite pandemic restrictions. Photo by Greg Southam /Postmedia
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Many Alberta seniors want to stay in their own homes as they age; many spouses and children want to help.
But one thing we learned through Groundwork II: Seniors & COVID-19 an Edmonton Journal pilot project in engagement journalism is that Alberta’s system to provide home care is not easy to access and understand.
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Air Canada and Air Transat are receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in one form of bailout or another. The government proudly announced they made the airlines refund passenger tickets because of COVID restrictions.
A rewrite needs to occur. First, the money paid in advance by flying customers was a liability to the company. It was not a slush fund of cheap money. They should have held that money in trust and only spent it when they provide the service.
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Journalist Elise Stolte in conversation with executive director Sandy Sereda and other guests. Register to join.
Author of the article: Elise Stolte
Publishing date: Apr 20, 2021 • May 3, 2021 • 2 minute read • University of Alberta associate professor Jasneet Parmar in front of Clover Bar Lodge in Sherwood Park. Parmar points to Clover Bar is one facility that works hard to support and include family caregivers despite pandemic restrictions. Photo by Greg Southam, Postmedia Photo by Greg Southam /Postmedia
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Many Alberta seniors want to stay in their own homes as they age; many spouses and children want to help.
But one thing we learned through Groundwork II: Seniors & COVID-19 an Edmonton Journal pilot project in engagement journalism is that Alberta’s system to provide home care is not easy to access and understand.
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Tragedy is defined by small moments and raw emotion.
After three months of interviewing seniors and their families about the pandemic, several of those stand out. One is the anxiety: Don Brown calling his daughter 30 times each afternoon, wondering why she’s not visiting as his brain struggles to understand the masks and tension in his dementia ward.
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Then there’s longing and tenderness: Laurence Babiuk, pre-pandemic, quietly entering his wife’s long-term care room to simply hold her, cuddling on the bed.