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 8^th, 2011
• Students Help Alzheimer Patients (First Nations)
  Written by: ICTMN Staff from Indian Country TMN on February 4^th, 2011
• Who is looking after your parents? (Re: Live-in foreign caregivers)
  Written by: Carole Goar from the Toronto Star on Thursday January 13^th, 2011
• Home-care report a wake-up call for McGuinty
  Written by: Bob Hepburn from the Toronto Star on Thursday December 9^th, 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 2^nd, 2014
• Living in the Moment: Dutch Village Offers Dignified Care for Dementia Sufferers
  Written by: Trevor Weeding on April 9^th, 2012
• Head injuries can have ‘physical link to dementia’
  Written by: Eleanor Bradford on July 20^th, 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