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Long-term care is not strictly a medical service; it’s also a home and social environment. To ensure Canadians can age with dignity, we need ways to assess dignity in our health systems.
People living with complex chronic conditions are poorly served by our health-care system, which was designed to care for acute illness.
Silver economy: an in-home help service provider in the Netherlands is revolutionising care delivery for the elderly with a streamlined, patient-centred approach that trusts community nurses and caregivers.
One of the biggest barriers to diagnoses of brain disorders is that symptoms — particularly those of apathy — can be mistaken for depression, resulting in inappropriate treatment and poorer health.
Stay in work or retire? There are many reasons to do both, but in order to retain workers, employers need to be aware of these factors.
Our aging population, combined with increased life expectancy, pose a challenge to our pension schemes. Solutions exist to make them function better.
Recent studies show that it’s possible to maintain good cognitive health as we age with certain leisure activities and pursuits that stimulate the brain.
Doctor shortages affect rural communities the most, leading to a rise in chronic health conditions.
Low-income individuals face a double penalty: they are both more likely to need long-term care and they are less financially equipped to bear the associated costs.
By 2100, China’s population will likely be half its current size. It will also be a lot older, with fewer working-age men and women.
Many countries are enacting measures to counter population decline, but manipulating fertility is an inefficient means of solving social, economic and environmental problems.
Forcing the younger generation to work harder to support a growing elderly population is neither efficient nor sustainable. Canada shouldn’t seek to follow in Greece’s footsteps.
Older adults face greater health risks from extreme heat for several reasons, including their medications..
Australia’s latest population projection figures have just come out. This is what they show about our demographics and where the country is heading in the future.
Older adults in poorer areas would benefit more from seeing the same GP, but often find continuous primary care harder to access.
While both nursing homes and home care impose financial burdens, their differing structures can influence how older Canadians save money.
Modernizing Canada’s fiscal arrangements is necessary to overcome considerable challenges that are impacting the country’s finances, including an aging population and climate change.
Action is needed to hold off a wave of dementia cases in an aging population. One of the most effective tools to reduce the prevalence of dementia is to address modifiable factors.
A study shows the COVID-19 pandemic has made Canadians fear sub-standard and dangerous living conditions in nursing homes. They want home care, and tax policies that will support it.
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