seniors Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/seniors/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Wed, 26 Jan 2022 21:57:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg seniors Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/seniors/ 32 32 170042892 Honouring life’s final stage https://anglicanjournal.com/honouring-lifes-final-stage/ https://anglicanjournal.com/honouring-lifes-final-stage/#respond Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:00:23 +0000 https://www.anglicanjournal.com/?p=170009 High rates of COVID-19 infection and death in Canada’s long-term care homes have drawn increased attention to their quality of care, and have spurred announcements by provincial and federal governments of new measures intended to improve it, including billions of dollars in new spending.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/honouring-lifes-final-stage/feed/ 0 170009 Long-term care and ‘the great revealer’ https://anglicanjournal.com/long-term-care-and-the-great-revealer/ https://anglicanjournal.com/long-term-care-and-the-great-revealer/#respond Mon, 01 Nov 2021 13:02:51 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=169289 When military personnel were deployed to long-term care homes in Ontario and Quebec during the pandemic’s first wave in the spring of 2020, they encountered a system that some had said was in dire need of change even before the pandemic. But COVID-19 brought increased public attention to the system’s shortcomings as it spread through long-term care homes across the country.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/long-term-care-and-the-great-revealer/feed/ 0 169289 Around the dioceses, February 2020 https://anglicanjournal.com/around-the-dioceses-february-2020/ https://anglicanjournal.com/around-the-dioceses-february-2020/#respond Mon, 27 Jan 2020 20:54:38 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=162629 The signing of an agreement between James Settee College and the Vancouver School of Theology was a major topic at the latest meeting of the Indigenous Council for the Anglican diocese of Saskatchewan.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/around-the-dioceses-february-2020/feed/ 0 162629 ‘Messy Seniors’ brings church to the people https://anglicanjournal.com/messy-seniors-brings-church-people/ https://anglicanjournal.com/messy-seniors-brings-church-people/#respond Thu, 16 Nov 2017 14:19:33 +0000 http://anglicanjournal.com/?p=152715 Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Edmonton, Alta., thought Messy Church would be a perfect fit. The largest church in its diocese, Holy Trinity runs large children’s and youth programs and has an active congregation. It seemed like a good idea. The all-ages monthly service centred around craft activities, storytelling and sharing a meal; kids and grown-ups […]

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