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Local News Seniors care in B.C. Months in hospital waiting for residential care not uncommon
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Local News Home care and support stretched thin as B.C. ages
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Seniors Grey Matters: Shielding ourselves from the realities of death
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Seniors Tips to help seniors stay in their home longer
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Seniors Tips for navigating seniors care in B.C.
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Seniors Grey Matters: Strategic retirement planning more challenging as we age
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Local News Calgary police to test alert system for missing seniors
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Seniors Grey Matters: Caregivers deserve better
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Seniors Grey Matters: Canada Pension Plan can be significant retirement benefit
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Columnists Montreal teen determined to find answers to Alzheimer's
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Local News Little-understood heart attack more dangerous than formerly believed: U of A study
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Seniors New hip replacement technique shows promise of quicker recovery
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Life Brownstein: Montreal foundation has healthy respect for artists
Nursing homes penalized for keeping elderly residents healthy: Expert
Nursing homes in Ontario that use the best methods to improve the health of their residents lose funding, a perverse system that a leading advocacy group is working to change.
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Local News Psychological burden on caring for dementia at home can be huge
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Local News Seniors care in B.C.: Dementia wave set to make institutions more responsive to residents
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Seniors Seniors and food: The dish on care home menus
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Seniors London nursing home bungled hiring of killer nurse: Ex-manager
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Seniors Cooking for one: How to cut costs and work, while keeping nutrition up
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Seniors Loneliness, falls and over-medicating afflict seniors in B.C. care homes
'It feels like we're family': Students and seniors with dementia find common ground in art
Sitting among tables filled with paints, palettes and crinkled paper soaked in the efforts of their brushes, seniors living with dementia seem somewhat content with the art they create every week at Clifton Manor Continuing Care Centre.
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Local News Albertans face longer wait times for knee and hip replacements: report
Albertans needing a hip or knee replacement tended to wait at least one month longer to receive their surgeries last year, according to new national statistics that also showed declining performances for cataract and bypass procedures. -
Columnists Daphne Bramham: Busting the myth that doctors are to blame for the opiate overdose crisis
In 2016, everyone from the chief medical health officer to the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons linked the growing epidemic of drug overdoses to doctors having over-prescribed opioids. -
Seniors Grey Matters: Be wary of buying into some homeopathic claims
Many of us hear references to the snake oil salesmen of old and smile indulgently at how gullible people used to be. -
Life Allford: Planning your last party can give you peace of mind
I know Jack is going to die, I just don’t know when. I’ve been watching Netflix with my fingers over my eyes as Jack Pearson, the loving father and husband in the dramatic series This is Us, goes about his final days. -
Seniors Grey Matters: Seniors needs a voice in government
When giving directions to a stranger, do you refer to landmarks such as the Dairy Queen and Tim Hortons or the Home Depot and Canadian Tire? Your choice says something about your viewpoint, and it may even affect the way the stranger experiences the journey. -
Local News Fortney: Caregivers put their lives on hold, stepping up in the ‘dwindling years’
This past weekend, Judi Gunter prepared an Easter spread of turkey and all the trimmings. When it came to one more item on the day’s agenda, however, Gunter decided to have a serious conversation with her adult daughter Jennifer. -
Local News Alberta still on track for 2,000 new long-term care beds, NDP says
The NDP government says it is on track to fulfil one of its key election promises to create 2,000 long-term care and dementia beds, even as a long-awaited new strategy for building seniors care projects remains in limbo. -
Local News Alberta flu deaths hit 86 for the season
Alberta has recorded one of its deadliest flu seasons in the last two decades as 86 patients who contracted the virus have died over the last five months. -
Supreme Court rejects son's appeal over dying mother's pain meds, sides with doctor
An 80-year old double amputee, who spent her last months between a Nanaimo hospital and a nursing home, was in so much pain that a highly distinguished palliative care doctor was consulted on ways to make her daily wound care dressing changes more tolerable with narcotics like morphine. -
Seniors Grey Matters: Strategies to help you win with financial institutions
If you’re a parent or were once a child, you’re familiar with these heartfelt words: “It’s not fair.