Calgary woman feeling stuck as Home Services for Seniors eligibility runs out

Eighty-six-year-old Lorraine Barton has called a quiet street in Calgary’s Bowness neighbourhood home for nearly 30 years.

Although she lives alone now, she still graciously hosts more than 20 family members once a month for a treasured barbecue.

“(It’s special), especially with all your grandchildren, great-grandchildren… I have a 25-year-old great-grandchild, even,” Barton laughs.

She’s still active, getting out once a day for an hour-long walk in the neighbourhood. But due to a limp, maintaining her residential yard isn’t possible for her alone.

For more than a decade, Barton and hundreds of other Calgary seniors have benefitted from Calgary’s Home Services for Seniors Program, which provides grass-cutting, snow shovelling and...