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Many seniors take five or more drugs |
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Written by Dave Mabell
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Thursday, 18 March 2010 |
And many seniors living with some conditions, Juby warns, are not being prescribed the medications they need.
“We know some chronic diseases, such as osteoporosis, are being under-treated.”
Not surprisingly, the study found the most commonly used drugs are prescribed for the treatment of chronic conditions which plague people who live into their late 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond — especially cardiovascular problems such as high blood pressure and heart failure.
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Victim a ‘wonderful person’ |
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Written by Ric Swihart Lethbridge Herald
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 |
The funeral for “a truly wonderful person, a hard and dedicated worker and great family man” with roots in Fort Macleod, Coalhurst and Taber, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Lethbridge Coast Hotel and Conference Centre.
The family has arranged visitation times for Kurtis Dean Reynolds, 33, from 7-9 p.m. Monday at Martin Bros. Riverview Chapel. Those unable to attend the visitation Monday can visit the family noon to 2 p.m. Tuesday prior to the funeral.
Reynolds was killed Saturday at a Revelstoke snowmobile Big Iron Shoot-Out while watching the event with his friend and business partner Shay Snortland who has roots in the Manyberries district and whose funeral will be held in Medicine Hat.
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Timely rescue |
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Written by Dave Mabell Lethbridge Herald
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
Southern Albertans will continue to dispatch Lethbridge-area ambulances — at least for now. And their firefighters may continue to provide paramedic services as well.
Mayor Bob Tarleck welcomed a surprise announcement Tuesday in Edmonton, freezing plans to centralize almost all of those dispatch operations to Calgary and Edmonton. Health Minister Gene Zwozdesky said rural Albertans contacted him with their safety concerns.
The freeze also applies to previous plans separating emergency medical services from fire departments in Lethbridge and many Alberta communities.
“Last week I immediately contacted Alberta Health Services and I said we’ll put a stop to everything for the time being,” Zwozdesky told Alberta reeves and councillors meeting in the capital.
That means 18 ambulance dispatch centres — including Lethbridge and Medicine Hat — will remain open indefinitely, and some of the 17 already closed could reopen. In Lethbridge, ambulance dispatch operations remain combined with emergency police and fire calls.
“This is very welcome news,” Tarleck said. “This pause is helpful.”
Lethbridge has operated a combined fire and ambulance service for 100 years, he pointed out, and city officials have reminded Alberta Health it’s proven highly effective.
“Maybe they realize this is a tremendous opportunity for us to save our taxpayers’ dollars and save the provincial government’s money as well,” the mayor said.
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Lucky to be alive |
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Written by Sherri Gallant Lethbridge Herald
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
After surviving the deadly avalanche that killed two of his friends near Revelstoke Saturday, Nathan Knox isn’t sure if he’ll replace his two mangled snowmobiles — but he hasn’t ruled it out.
“It’s a risk you take, and everybody knows it — it was terrible, but if you get in a car accident, do you rule out driving again?” said Knox, from his Calgary home.
“If you’re watching the news you’ll see a graveyard of snowmobiles that are still out there, and my two are in there somewhere. The RCMP are supposed to call and let me know if they’re salvageable.”
Knox — who was raised in Lethbridge and worked at the Lethbridge Herald for eight years — and his fiancee Lyndsay Judd were attending the annual Big Iron Shoot-Out, an unsanctioned extreme snowmobiling event held at Boulder Mountain. He bought a pair of sleds and took up snowmobiling this year, mainly as a way to get outdoors on the weekends and enjoy the mountains with Judd.
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Waiting on their dream |
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Written by Sherri Gallant
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 |
When heavy rains collapsed the roof of their run-down house on 6 Avenue two years ago, the Love Lethbridge organization came to the rescue for homeowner Gary Boivin, who’s in a wheelchair.
Ken Kissick and Al Fritz, two members of Love Lethbridge — the local arm of a national movement designed to draw people to faith through unity of city churches — set out to pool resources and gather donations to build a new home for Gary and his 15-year-old daughter Michelle Boivin-Carriere. The two were left to fend for each other when Gary’s wife Suzanne died of cancer in 2007, and infection took one of Gary’s legs and damaged the other.
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