Better at Home – News & Events

From Arrow Lakes to Vanderhoof: six rural communities receive funding for pilot program

United Way’s Better at Home program initially explored five locations for the Rural and Remote Pilot Project. Six communities have since received funding and are setting up their pilot programs.

Seniors who live in B.C.’s rural and remote communities have different needs than seniors living in cities. That’s why United Way’s Better at Home designed a Rural and Remote Pilot Project. Stakeholder engagement processes were conducted in early 2015 in Nakusp, Invermere, the Villages of Fraser Lake and Valemount,

Do you have waitlists? You might be eligible for more funding

Almost half of Better at Home programs are now eligible to receive more funding based on community characteristics and need.

As Better at Home is evolving, we’ve developed a new funding model. Under the previous framework, Better at Home programs received up to $100,000 per year, with a few exceptions. The new model, however, allocates funding based on community characteristics and need, and number of seniors served.

As a result, almost half of Better at Home programs are now eligible to receive more funding.

In the News: Helping to close the gap

Better at Home strives to provide seniors a hand with simple day-to-day tasks in the non-medical spectrum to help close the gap on home care support for seniors.

There has been some news coverage recently about the important issue of cutbacks to home care supports for seniors. Cutbacks in hours and the changes in the range of duties for home support workers were discussed in a Vancouver Sun article this May.

Seeking a Consultant Event Coordinator for Better at Home

Better at Home is seeking a Consultant Event Coordinator to work in close collaboration with the Better at Home provincial office to the coordinate planning for and hosting of the 2015 Fall Provincial Meetup.

If you are interested in applying for this opportunity, please see the Request for Proposal below.

Consultant Event Coordinator RFP (Submission deadline: Friday 26 June, 2015, 11:30am PDT)

Better at Home announces rural and remote pilot locations

The United Way’s Better at Home program has selected five communities for the rural and remote pilot project: Nakusp, Invermere, the Villages of Fraser Lake and Valemount, and Pender Island.

Nakusp, Invermere, the Villages of Fraser Lake and Valemount, and Pender Island are the five communities chosen to help Better at Home understand how best to deliver services to seniors living in rural and remote communities in B.C. Better at Home provides non-medical support services to seniors in B.C.

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