What do the Texas Hold ‘Em Challenge and prescriptions for exercise have in common? They’re two non-medical examples of how we’re helping older adults avoid frailty and age healthily and independently in their homes.
In this episode, Dr. Victoria Lee is joined by Dr. Grace Park and Paramjit Rai to discuss the many home-support programs within Fraser Health that are improving the health and well-being of older adults and providing respite for family caregivers.
Guest bios
Dr. Grace Park is a family physician and the regional medical director for Home and Community Care at Fraser Health.
Paramjit Rai is a health care aide/activity worker in Fraser Health’s South Asian Adult Day Program.
Learn more:
Day Program for Older Adults: https://www.fraserhealth.ca/Service-Directory/Services/Seniors---Community-Services/day-programs-for-older-adults
Home Support services: https://www.fraserhealth.ca/Service-Directory/Services/home-and-community-care/home-support-services
South Asian Day Program for Older Adults Program participants take on the Texas Hold ‘Em Challenge: https://www.instagram.com/fraserhealth/reel/C4_sUduvzMS/
About The Heart of It
Every episode, Dr. Victoria Lee, president and CEO of Fraser Health, takes listeners to the heart of health care, where passion, dedication and innovation drive individual, community and planetary health.
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This episode of The Heart of It was recorded on the traditional, ancestral and unceded shared territories of the q̓ ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), q̓ʷɑ:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ (Kwantlen), kʷikʷəƛ̓ əm (Kwikwetlem), Qayqayt and Semiahmoo First Nations, treaty lands of the sc̓əwaθən məsteyəxʷ (Tsawwassen) First Nation, and on the home of the Surrey-Delta Métis Association.
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