Vi Roden said she reads an average of 50 books a year, attends history lectures at her local seniors centre, and does yoga twice a week. She’s 101, and still …
Ontario will need 33,200 more nurses and 50,853 more personal support workers by 2032, the government projects — figures it tried to keep secret but were obtained by The Canadian …
B.C.’s health minister has announced a spring COVID-19 booster campaign, with shots recommended for seniors, Indigenous people over 55 and long-term care home residents in particular. Invitations to book a …
For the first time, the Ontario government has confirmed seven people have been charged fees under a controversial law that says patients who refuse to move out of the hospital and into …
An Edmonton family is frustrated and upset after a 62-year-old man who had been in hospital with care needs was sent to stay at a hotel. Blair Canniff had been a …
The chief of Grassy Narrows is calling out the federal government as a long-promised mercury poisoning treatment centre for the northern Ontario First Nation remains beset by delays tied to federal funding uncertainty. …
The Ontario Health Coalition has taken legal action against the province of Ontario over the granting of a new 30-year licence to Southbridge Care Homes — a for-profit company that …
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Scott Campbell recalls the time he went to visit his 100-year-old mother at her long-term care home in Fort St. John, B.C., and found her shivering and crying under a …