Home care and support stretched thin as B.C. ages

Moira Hewitt has lived on her own for the past eight years and she is quite determined to carry on, thank you very much.
As age and her battle with multiple sclerosis progress, she needs help to get her day started, prep meals and get to bed. Now using a wheelchair full-time, Hewitt can no longer leave her garden flat on her own.
“I’m not a quitter … like the Energizer bunny,” she declared. “When I first moved in (19 years ago) I could still walk and then I was usi