Better at Home – News & Events

Community Consultations

Community consultations have now been completed in all the communities identified as potential hosts for Better at Home programs!

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, information and feedback during these consultations, increasing awareness to the efforts of Better at Home; we appreciate your participation in the Better at Home community processes to help seniors live in their own homes longer.

Community reports, which were written by contracted community developers in each community,

Looking for Community Developers for Better at Home

The Better at Home Provincial Office team is looking for Community Developers throughout British Columbia to help communities assess their readiness to implement a Better at Home program, identify non-medical home support services, and support the selection of a lead organization.

New sites have been announced that may eventually host a Better at Home program. In each of these communities, Community Developers will engage in a community consultation process.

Better at Home announces new sites

Minister of State for Seniors Ralph Sultan, Minister (and Langley MLA) Mary Polak, and United Way of the Lower Mainland CEO Michael McKnight attended a launch event in Langley to announce new Better at Home sites.

The Better at Home program is more than tripling the number of sites, adding 38 new locations including First Nations communities around the province. Designed to help seniors age 65 and older live in their own homes longer by providing simple services delivered by local non-profit agencies,

Better at Home gets closer to home

Since the Better at Home project was announced last year, we have moved into implementation mode. Local Community Developers have been recruited in 18 communities to assess local readiness to implement Better at Home programs.

These community developers have been sourcing and developing profiles of the local seniors’ population, in conversation with seniors themselves. Community conversations are currently being held to help identify the non-medical home support needs and priorities of older adults in each potential Better at Home community.

Final CASI evaluation report available

The final evaluation report for the Community Action for Seniors Independence (CASI) Pilot Project is now available on the website of the United Way of the Lower Mainland.

CASI was an innovative pilot initiative, undertaken in partnership with the Government of British Columbia, to explore a community-based, volunteer-sector model of delivering non-medical home support services to seniors. Independent evaluation of the pilot project was undertaken so we could explore how this approach met the needs and desire of seniors to remain living longer in their own homes.

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