Alberta Health aims to improve dementia care in new strategy
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Grey Matters: Keeping loved ones in our hearts during the holidays
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Paula Simons: Covenant Health staff eschew the flu shot
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Vancouver housing crisis pushing seniors to brink of homelessness, say advocates
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Town Talk: Soon-to-abdicate Emperor Akihito's birthday celebrated
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B.C. seniors advocate starts tracking property and violence offences
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Grey Matters: Medical care should be for whole patient, not just some parts
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Become Santa to a lonely Saskatoon senior citizen
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Care homes work to ease Christmas loneliness for residents
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Grey Matters: How to choose your charities wisely
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Grey Matters: Seniors shouldn’t quietly take their medicine
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On pins and needles: Murray Hill gives a first-person account of knee surgery in Saskatoon
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Conversations That Matter: Battling frailty in our old age
Nearly half of US cancer deaths blamed on unhealthy behaviour
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Here's why you should have more red wine and chocolate (a lot more)
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Ontario students win international prize for cancer-detecting device
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Could young blood cure Alzheimer’s? First study shows 'hints' that plasma revives old brains
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How to live forever: Here are the ways Silicon Valley plans to conquer death
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Quest for eternal life: This company thinks US$8,000 worth of young blood can help you ...
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Doctor says Canadian-led heart valve surgery details will 'blow people's minds'
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Canadian researchers develop new model for early-stage lung cancer detection
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Who will be the doctors of death in a time of assisted suicide?
'My mother was let down': The failings behind the unexplained death of Violet Lucas
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Seniors Grey Matters: Health-care costs could rise unless food packaging changes
What do ice cream and investment fees have in common? Maybe more than you think. It turns out that regulators trying to protect us from too many fees or too ... -
Local News Flu vaccine vital for yourself and those around you: pharmacist
Roderick Amaya, a pharmacist at and owner of the University Heights Shoppers Drug Mart talks about the benefits of receiving a flu shot for the recipient and the community at ... -
Diet & Fitness Ganesh and Varma: Evaluating new options for managing diabetes
Drs. Varma and Ganesh review the principles of glucose control and examine the evidence behind recently approved insulin options for patients with diabetes. -
Seniors Grey Matters: A little math can add up in your retirement savings
When I was little, my dad used to sit my two sisters and me at the kitchen table and play the Smarties game. -
Seniors Grey Matters: Maintaining good health into golden years
Before I took up advocacy, I advised companies about employee wellness. When a company was considering a wellness program, it inevitably focused on the folks with the greatest health risks ... -
Local News Health leaders urge Albertans to get vaccinated as flu clinics open
Alberta’s annual influenza immunization campaign kicked off Monday with a call to the general public, vulnerable groups and health workers to improve the province’s participation rate this season. -
Local News Albertans urged to get flu shots
Starting on Monday, October 23rd, Calgarians will be able to protect themselves against the flu by getting the 2017-2018 seasonal influenza vaccine. -
Local News TransLink should bring HandyDart service in house: report
A new report commissioned by the union representing HandyDart workers recommends that TransLink bring the service for people with disabilities in house instead of continuing to contract it out.
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Health Making seniors pay for shingles vaccine is discrimination, tribunal hears
A Burnaby senior who has watched friends suffer through painful bouts of shingles is accusing B.C.’s health ministry of discriminating against seniors because it doesn’t cover the cost of the ... -
Seniors Doctors encourage inoculation against painful shingles, laud new vaccine
TORONTO — Like many Canadians, Anne Van Burek had chickenpox as a child. But she never expected the virus that causes the itchy rash to come back to haunt her ... -
Health Dementia drink disappoints in highly anticipated Lancet-published study
In a new study, a breakfast drink that first made a splash at an international Alzheimer’s conference in Vancouver five years ago as a memory booster has been shown to ... -
Local News Converting mansion to seniors home will cost Vancouver jobs, argues David Radler
Vancouver newspaper executive David Radler opposes a bid to convert a historic Southwest Marine Drive mansion into a seniors care facility. -
Family & Child Start of flu season brings three deaths in Alberta
people patients by Alberta Health Services indicate the Calgary region has been the worst hit area of the province to date. -
Health A woman's dog died, and doctors say her heart literally broke
This was a case of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, which is most common in postmenopausal women -
Seniors Grey Matters: Halting hidden adviser fees once and for all
In the world of advocacy, those who seek incremental gains often clash with those fighting for big wins. -
Seniors A nursing home's high school teaches lessons on life
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News Nursing home's high school teaches lessons on life
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News A nursing home's high school teaches lessons on life
NEW YORK — In a classroom, an old man glides in pushing a walker, and none of the young faces turn.
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