The Thompson Seniors Community Resource Council provides programs and resources  for local seniors and elders.

Penny Byer, Program Co-ordinator for the council, says food insecurity is a serious issue for some local seniors, as is isolation.

Here she talks about a new approach to address that.

“There is also something called social prescribing where the medical profession might be seeing a patient and say ‘well, the medical needs are being met but they still need something else. Maybe they need some socialization or something.’ In that case, the doctors or the nurses, whoever it is, will send us a social prescribing form and we’ll contact the person and we’ll try and get the person involved in some of the things that we do.”  

Byers said there are a number of opportunities for seniors to socialize, from their congregate meals each Tuesday, to pot luck dinners and trips to Paint Lake, as well as other gatherings weekly at the TRCC and Legion.

For more information about the Thompson Seniors Community Resource Council, you can call 204-677-0987.

You can also tune into Thompson Today at 12:40 and 5:10 this afternoon.