Articles of Interest and Healthy Aging
From a Canadian Perspective
- Why Do I Need to Pay for Your Service When I Can Get It For Free?
- Life after retirement: Health care costs require careful planning
- Ontario home care to see $750M in improvements
- Palliative care access needed for all nearing end of life, report says. (CBC/CP)
- Family Feud over Elder Care raises consent and capacity questions.
- Shortage of Geriatricians in Canada creating perfect storm
- GST/HST Changes Affect Home and Palliative Care, Pensions
- Using the Montessori Method to combat dementia
- Province-wide Seniors Safety Line now available
- Ontario’s hurry-up-and-die approach needs fixing
Written by: Thomas Walkom from the Toronto Star on Saturday February 26, 2011
Begging for Care series (Toronto Star) – 2011
- Part I: Home care promised by hospital never arrives
- Part II: Daughter copes at home with two ailing parents
- Part III: Pay $1,800 a day or get out: Hospital
- Part IV: Province to hospitals: stop threatening $1,800 fees
- Part V: Begging for Care: Keeping seniors healthy and at home
- Part VI: Family spends thousands on private home care
- Part VII: McGuinty tells hospitals to end fees forcing patients into nursing homes
- Part VIII: Should taxpayers foot bill for seniors’ bath?
- Part IX: Fix the home care system, families demand
- Part X: Senior leaves nursing home with help of home care
- The elder care crisis: comments from readers of the series
- Preparing for Long-Term Care: Any Good Options?
Written by: Janet Morrissey from TIME on Tuesday February 8th, 2011 - Students Help Alzheimer Patients (First Nations)
Written by: ICTMN Staff from Indian Country TMN on February 4th, 2011 - Who is looking after your parents? (Re: Live-in foreign caregivers)
Written by: Carole Goar from the Toronto Star on Thursday January 13th, 2011 - Home-care report a wake-up call for McGuinty
Written by: Bob Hepburn from the Toronto Star on Thursday December 9th, 2010
From a Worldwide Perspective
- World perspective – Alzheimers-breakthrough Drug which halts mental decline
Telegraph UK - Juggling older parents and teenagers
- Barbara, The Whole Story
created by nurses at Guy’s and St. Thomas to raise awareness of dementia. - Info on Dementia Care
- New York Times Article – Choosing care for an aging family member.
Written by: By Ann Carrns on May 2nd, 2014 - Living in the Moment: Dutch Village Offers Dignified Care for Dementia Sufferers
Written by: Trevor Weeding on April 9th, 2012 - Head injuries can have ‘physical link to dementia’
Written by: Eleanor Bradford on July 20th, 2011 - Dilnot Commission: millions of working adults will have to care for elderly parents
Written by: Tim Ross, the Social Affairs Editor at The Telegraph (UK) on December 1, 2010 - Children Ease Alzheimer’s in Land of Aging
Written by: Pam Belluck from The New York Times on November 25, 2010 (A story based in South Korea) - Global Age – Friendly Cities: A Guide
Written by: The World Health Organization in 2007
