Making sense of senior care

Years ago, when Orchards resident Nicki Tucker went to work at the famously cylindrical Smith Tower — a high-rise, low-income senior citizen home in downtown Vancouver — she had never assisted a specifically elder population before. It was a new challenge, but Tucker was glad, after biding too much time as a school cafeteria “lunch lady,” to have scored a job that finally put her passion for helping and Master of Social Work degree to good use.

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