Our society is definitely youth-oriented, and as a 73-year-old, that's something Roy Green says he sometimes collides with.

It's a day to celebrate the moms in our lives, but the public health crisis has made it challenging to do so in traditional ways.

Summerland Seniors Village is the fourth Retirement Concepts facility in B.C. to be placed under government management in the past six months.

Retirement Concepts is now owned by a Chinese holding company, making accountability more difficult, the HEU said.

Outside administrators have been appointed to run other Retirement Concepts care homes in Nanaimo, Comox and Victoria.

It is a challenge that governments right across Canada are struggling with, providing enough long-term care spaces for an aging population.

The latest property, called Selkirk Seniors Village in Vicotria, is a 217-bed extended care facility, and is now under the management of Island Health.

The union representing health care workers at the Pioneer Village special care home says its members have been reporting illnesses.

Island Health staff have temporarily moved in to support existing staff at Selkirk Place in Victoria and Nanaimo Seniors Village.

The association says wages aren’t the problem, but blames the recruitment woes on barriers for out-of-province care aides to get the proper approvals to work in B.C.