Seniors Health & Wellness Centre - Salmon Arm

Healthcare Providers and Seniors Services

Provided by Interior Health

Provides specialized seniors health care for medically complex and physically frail older adults.
The Seniors Health and Wellness Centre provides seniors care through timely access to specialized teams of healthcare practitioners who will provide a comprehensive geriatric assessment, intervention, treatment and follow-up care; focusing on independence, health promotion and prevention, stabilization and improvement of seniors’ health in the community.

Services offered at the Centre include:
  • Collaboration with Clients existing community support network (e.g. family physician / NP, Home and Community Care Case Manager) as well as linking client and family with services and resources (e.g. home and safety assessments; financial assessments; nutritional assessments; coordination and collaboration with home support)
  • Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment, customized inter-professional care planning with the client and the family, personalized interventions and short-term follow-up and transitioning to community services


Criteria: The program is intended for medically complex and physically frail older adults that would have:
  • Frailty Scale (scoring between 4-6)
  • Geriatric Syndromes: Bladder and Bowel Problems; Sleep Issues; Cognition including Delirium, Depression and Dementia; Falls and Mobility; Nutrition and Hydration; Pain and Medications
  • Multiple medical and psychological co-morbidities combined with social, economic and environmental factors
  • Inclusive of Dementia (mild to severe)
  • Clients must be agreeable for treatment
  • Clients must have the potential to improve

778-489-5191

#1, 2770 10th Ave NE, Salmon Arm, British Columbia, V1E2S4

Cost: No cost

Referral options:

  • Physician or nurse practitioner referral
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Availability

Service area: Salmon Arm

Service Types Provided
Healthcare Providers
Seniors Services
Ways to Access
  • Provided 1:1 in-person

The listing of this service in Pathways is not a recommendation or endorsement by Pathways.

Pathways does not provide medical advice. If you have an emergency please call 9-1-1. If you require assistance navigating services please call 8-1-1.

For general inquiries or for assistance, please email us:

community-services@pathwaysbc.ca

If you are requesting clinical access to medical Pathways, please provide the following information via the email above:

  1. First Name
  2. Last Name
  3. Email
  4. In which city/town do you work?
  5. What is your role? E.g. Family Physician, Office Staff, Medical Resident
  6. Employer Name (for office staff)
  7. Office Phone

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