We need a support strategy for seniors – regardless of location
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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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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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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 take a mind-boggling number and variety of drugs.
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Predatory marriages of seniors is a very real and important topic in our society today.
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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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How many times a week should a nursing home patient get a bath?
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W5 nursing home investigation reveals 1,500 cases of staff-to-resident abuse in one year.
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The LTC home was breaking several regulations that safeguard trust accounts.
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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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Marie Sparrow, 94, is moving out of her Mississauga retirement home just before Christmas. It’s not what she wanted.