Asian seniors need more resources: Seniors Health Network

The Vancouver Sun quoted Henry Yu, a UBC history professor, for a story on poor health outcomes for Asian-Canadian seniors who are placed in culturally insensitive long-term care homes.

Yu, who helped create the Asian Canadian Seniors Health Network, discussed the long wait for people like his grandmother to get into the linguistically and culturally appropriate care home run by SUCCESS.

“Her last three years she was unhappy living in a facility where no one spoke Chinese and she had chronic indigestion because her diet had changed. She would say, ‘I don’t want to live anymore,’ and she never came off the wait list,” Yu said. “She might have lived a lot longer if she was in a culturally sensitive facility. There are many stories like this, but these are challenges that we can meet.”