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|The Castlegar Sun

Wednesday, pancary 23, 1991

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Emergency response units in demand |

By BARBARA TANDORY
Sun staff writer

The community response to

them for one-third of the cost of
the machine.)

“We feel this program has real-
ly _ been popular,” noted

the personal

home units has been great but the -

need for more units is even
greater, according to Castlegar
and District Home Support Ser-
vices who innovated the emergen-
cy home system in co-operation
with Trail Regional Hospital.
' Last week the twenty ninth
such unit was installed in the
Castlegar area since the program
was introduced two years ago. -

But there are twenty five more
people on a waiting Ust, peopie
with a medical need for one of the
$535 units provided by the Home
Support office on Columbia
Avenue in South Castlegar.

“We feel kind of helpless if
people request the units and we
don’t have any avai ” says

doff. “A lot of people
can now stay home.

It allows people to stay home a
little longer and feel at ease and to
have these machines. The need is
in the community.”

Patti Richards, Home Support
office manager, says the 25 peo-
ple on the waiting list are “at risk”
without the emergency units
which — through a direct hook-
up with the central monitoring
unit at Trail hospital — will set
off an emergency response proce-
dure.

“We have to get out the cry for
funding,” noted Richards,

The monitor unit in Trail can
service 500 emergency response
uel in the area. A similar service

Lovette Nichvolodoff, administra-
tor for the Castlegar and District
Home Support Association.

“Basically, if they're living
alone they're at risk,” she said,
noting that although many of the
clients are elderly persons living
on their own, the need for such a
unit is dictated, as a rule, by a
medical condition.

Since the program was started
in 1988, all of the 29 Skytec home
units have been purchased with
money from public donations,
mostly from local service clubs
and organizations,

Selkirk Lions and the Legion,

ided in the Trail area by
et hospital.

Nelson has its own monitor
system, and Nichvolodoff said
she understood that similar ser-
vices are available in Creston and
Grand Forks,

The service works on a lease
system, with the users required to
pay a “minimum cost” of $25 a
month. :

The amount covers Home Sup-
port expenses and the charges
paid for the monitor services in
Trail. In exchange, the units are
serviced free of charge.

Nichvolodoff said her office

for example, are ina
as to which will buy more units
—— and so far they’ re running neck

discourages Private Purchase of
the The d of
units is regulated by Home Ser-
vices, through a means test to

“who has a greater

to neck in their

The from the commu-
nity groups was “just tremen-
dous,""Nichvolodoff acknowledged.

Another funding revenue, the
Go B.C. Lotteries Fund, has made
it possible for the Home Services
to get one out of three new units
for free. (The fund reimburses

need,” she said.

The machine unit works con-
sists of a pendant worn around, the
person’s neck and a stall
portable console, whic}. mansmits
messages to Trail hospital when
activated.

The home unit is activated by

Obituary
Mary Argatoff

Mary Argatoff, of Castlegar,
passed away on January 18, 1991
in Nelson, at the age of 88.

Mrs.’ Argatoff was born in
Prince Alert, SK, on August 22,
1902, to Aksata & William Mal-
off.

Mrs. Argatoff came to BC in
1912 where she settled in Brilliant
where she married her husband,
William, in 1922, She then moved
to Castlegar in 1971. She enjoyed
gardening, sewing, knitting, weav-
ing and cooking. She was also a
member of the U.S.C.C.

: Mrs. Argatoff is survived by
four children, Vera Philpoff, of
Castlegar, Mary Danshin, of
Castlegar, Gertie Lebedoff, of
Crescent Valley, Elsie Nevak-
shonoff, of Castlegar, eleven
grandchildren and 20 great grand-
children. She was predeceased by

Obituary

we, nt

rred Shukin

Fred Shukin of Castlegar
passed away at the Castlegar &
District Hospital on January 12,
1991, at the age of 79.

Mr. Shukin was born in Ootis-
chenia, BC, on October 24, 1911
to Fred and Helen Shukin.

Mr. Shukin worked as a truck
driver for Slocan Forest Products.
He enjoyed gardening, fishing,
outdoor sports and coaching
hockey and baseball. He married
Mabel Tomilin February 26, 1931
and lived in both Pass Creed and
Tarry’s but spend most of his life
in Slocan Park, Mr. Shukin
moved to Castlegar i in 1987.

Mr. Shukin is survived by one
daughter, Florence Osachoff of
Delta, BC, one brother, Nick
Shukin of Creston, daughter i in-
Jaw Elsie Shukin, six 12 and
eight great grandchildren. He was
predeceased by one son, Fred Jr.
-and one brother, Bill.

” Funeral service was held Jan-
mary 16, 1991 at the Castlegar
Funeral Chapel.

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‘SUN STAFF PHOTO / Barbara Tandory.

Lovette Nichvolodoff of the Home Support office demon-
strates the use of a personal emergency response unit.
One such unit Is kept at all times in the (Home Support)
office in case of any emergencies.

emergency should happen outside
the client's home.

the pendant wearer for up to a dis-
tance of 150 ft., making it possible
to alert the Trail monitor if the

: Obituary
Alec Pozdnikoff

Alec Pozdnikoff of Nelson, Funeral service was held Jan-
BC, passed away in Nelson on
January 17, 1991, at the age of 51.

Mr. Pozdnikoff was born in
Brilliant, BC, on April 21, 1939,
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