Trish Summerhayes

Seniors 101’s Helpline

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I am a wife, a mother and a grandmother; and spent my whole working life as a nurse. I was a "ban the bomber" in London in the sixties and a part of the back to earth movement of the seventies here on Vancouver Island. These experiences have made me who I am. I am me. I am an Island Woman. In retirement I now enjoy even more being an Island Woman.

Our sister site Seniors 101 has stood the test of time. It began in 2004 as basically an add on to my private home care business. My husband Roy noticed that I spent a great deal of my time answering basic questions about what products and services were available for seniors on Vancouver Island and wondered what could be done to get that information in one place that could be available to everyone.

At that time web sites were still a new and for us an unknown entity. After much heading scratching and research we decided to give it a try and that was the birth of Seniors 101. When we look back now we smile as we realise how little we knew about computers and web sites when we launched Seniors 101, but we did it, and we are still doing it.

The web site you see now bears little resemblance to what it was when we started. Over time it has grown and changed as we responded to the needs and requests of our users and our advertisers without whom we could not have survived.

Seniors home care, care facilities,RV parks B &B, Churches, Brew pubs, craft breweries, vineyards, distilleries, Pets BC. Seniors 101, Island Voices promoting the products and services available for seniors on Vancouver Island. Seniors 101 lifeline.Here we are now in 2016 and have just opened our next really exciting new phase, Seniors 101 helpline. We have created this for exactly the same reason that we started 101 in the first place; we are still continually getting telephone calls and emails from  people who are looking for information regarding the products and services that are available for seniors on Vancouver Island. It is comforting to know that somethings don’t change and that includes the need for information.

By creating our Helpline we will now be able to answer questions not only for the individual who contacted us  but we can then make them available for everyone by posting both the questions and the answers online.

Thank you to everyone for your support as we look forward to the continued evolvement of Seniors 101 and Island Woman.

Click here to open Seniors 101’s Helpline and please help us to spread the word to better serve the seniors on Vancouver Island.

 

Trish Summerhayes. Publisher Island Woman magazine, Vancouver Island BCPatricia M. Summerhayes.
Publisher/Editor.
Island Woman Magazine.
islandwoman@shaw.ca

 

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