It started with a fundraising lake cruise in 2006, and it finished just last week, with the official opening of the therapeutic terrace for the residents of the
Lakeshore Lodge.
With the help of landscape architect
Viive Kittask of Vertechs Design, the municipally owned long-term care home now has a lake view, a gazebo and a raised garden, part pre-planted, and part left fallow for those of the home's 150 residents to plan themselves.
The lodge also invested in a floor specially designed for its residents.
"For people who may be shuffling, it's a perfectly level floor," says Rob Price, the lodge's administrator, speaking of the
Buzon system. "It's a technology that was borrowed from Belgium. It's like little piano stools underneath each corner of the floor slabs. They're raised and lowered as needed to make the floor level."
The budget for the project, Price says, was in the neighbourhood of $30,000.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Rob Price
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