We need a support strategy for seniors – regardless of location
With limited home-care services available and no room at the long-term-care facility, many end up, by default, in hospital.
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Doctors urge Ottawa to provide more clarity on assisted dying law
Canada’s doctors are pleading with the federal government to put specific guidelines in its medically assisted dying law regarding patients who want to end their lives because of psychological suffering.
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Seniors are given so many drugs, it’s madness
Seniors take a mind-boggling number and variety of drugs.
Predatory Marriages with Seniors
Predatory marriages of seniors is a very real and important topic in our society today.
No place like home? Investigating Ontario’s home-care shortcomings
It seems simple: keep patients at home when you can. Individuals prefer it, and it costs governments less. But home care is an underfunded, complicated system faltering in the face of skyrocketing demand.
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When does a bath become a necessity?
How many times a week should a nursing home patient get a bath?
Elder Abuse Investigation.
W5 nursing home investigation reveals 1,500 cases of staff-to-resident abuse in one year.
Toronto nursing home borrowed cash from residents’ private trust accounts
The LTC home was breaking several regulations that safeguard trust accounts.
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Kipnes Centre patient dragged from bed, family told she fell
It took a hidden video camera for Susan Carter to discover the truth about how her 89-year-old mother ended up lying on the floor at an Edmonton care home.
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Senior pushed out of retirement home the week before Christmas
Marie Sparrow, 94, is moving out of her Mississauga retirement home just before Christmas. It’s not what she wanted.
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