Corporation de l’âge d’or d’Aymler seeks change for sector’s seniors

Taylor Clark

The Corporation de l’âge d’or d’Aymler has launched a petition to bring the lack of services and activities for seniors in the sector to the attention of future elected officials and Gatineau’s administration.

The petition cited feelings of neglect compared to seniors in other sectors. “We have an imminent need for change in Aylmer. You are filling this area with elderly people by building huge and very expensive buildings for them, but you are not adapting all the needs and structures that these people are multiplying in Aylmer,” read the petition.

The creation of recreational, sporting, social, charitable, and other activities to enrich the mind and facilitate the relaxation of seniors who still have feelings of isolation following COVID-19 was emphasized.

The petition stressed the need for an outdoor shuffleboard court and shallow swimming pool for aquafitness but also improvements to the Centre communautaire Ernest-Lattion which was described as having “enormous design and maintenance problems.”

Along with brighter outdoor lighting, the corporation called for the addition of a sidewalk on rue Court, adequate snow removal, better signage, and regulation of its parking lot and garbage bins to deter non-user usage.

The petition can be signed in person at the Centre communautaire Ernest-Lattion on rue Court until May 31.

Photo caption: The Corporation de l’âge d’or d’Aymler is calling on future elected officials to bring change to the seniors of the Aylmer sector.

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