Kelowna Y offers Free Seniors Health Assessment
The YMCA of Okanagan is working to maintain the health and independence of seniors in our...
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Category: Health
Interior Health offers Flu Shots
To find a flu clinic near you, visit www.interiorhealth.ca/FluClinics. Many physician offices and...
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UBC Okanagan expands concussion research
The big question, van Donkelaar says, is how do you know if an athlete who has suffered a...
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Fit for a Long Life: strength training benefits
Strength training benefits seniors “I started exercising when I retired,” says 82-year old...
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Kia & Hannah Robertson
As international news headlines warn of childhood obesity and related diseases, an Okanagan nine-year-old and her mom are taking action to help kids achieve a healthy attitude toward eating, with their Today I Ate a Rainbow books and videos. Kia Robertson admits that it’s tough to get kids …
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The Best Medicine – Dr. Mike Ertel
The revolving door swishes open with the arrival of sick or injured people and clicks closed as...
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Health & Wellness
Feeling great, looking great, enjoying the Okanagan lifestyle. We’ve got the ingredients and...
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Steroids for Students
Performance-enhancing drugs can give athletes an edge on the competition, but can pill-popping pump up students’ grades?
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Teen Mental Health
These haunting words are true statements made by young people who went on to commit suicide.
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Date Rape Drugs
In the mid-1990s, the media began to report what appeared to be a growing trend: drug facilitated sexual assault, and in 1997 a young woman named AJ Januszczak put a human face on the story. Going public in the newspapers and on a national television talk show, she described exactly how a man drugged her while she was playing pool with her sister and her friends, then took her out to the parking lot where he and one of his friends raped her.
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Hockey & Health: Big Mike’s Story
My last memory of “Big Mike” (six foot three, 265 lbs) was of him being wheeled out of the hockey rink in Las Vegas on a gurney flashing the “thumbs up” sign to both teams as the paramedics took him to the local emergency. Mike, age 40, died later that day. I still get emotional thinking about it and I’m not exactly sure why.
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Lost and found: The Quest for Seniors’ Mental Health
The silent elephant in the room for many seniors and their families: Misunderstanding and stigma too often prevent people from acknowledging mental health problems and accessing available resources.
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