New business provides services to seniors living alone
ROSLYN KUNIN: Tuktu services include driving, shopping, housekeeping, companionship and technical help, all at an affordable cost
Tag: Senior care
Many questions will linger post-pandemic
GERRY BOWLER: Now that vaccines have made it possible for the world to be free of COVID-19, what consequences of this plague can we look forward to?
“Medical assistance in dying” worries many Canadians
RAY PENNINGS: A UN report is critical of Canada’s poor MAID safeguards for people with disabilities and their lack of access to viable MAID alternatives
Caregiving can last for decades, new research shows
To most people, ‘caregiving’ means looking after ailing relatives in their final years. But the reality is much different, with the actual workload lasting up to 30 years for some
The overblown panic of COVID-19
MARCO NAVARRO-GENIE: We trampled, in fear, over memory and institutions, obsessively protective and morally dismissive of dignity and human life
The lockdown failed our most vulnerable
MARCO NAVARRO-GENIE: Political spin to distract from the disaster in senior care centres will solve nothing. The industrial warehousing model must be questioned
Cubii Jr. offers an easy, quiet workout while you sit
FITNESS/HEALTH: Regardless of your age, abilities or lifestyle, you can benefit from a low-cardio seated elliptical workout
We need to restart our lives with care and planning
RODNEY CLIFTON: It’s time for government officials to focus on helping old and vulnerable people re-integrate into mainstream society (FREE membership content)
Has war been declared on the elderly?
GERRY BOWLER: COVID-19 fallout has revealed a genuine hostility on the part of the young toward the old, especially baby boomers
Pandemic has exposed our scandalous neglect of the elderly
DOUG FIRBY: Canada has shunted vulnerable people to nursing homes where staff slave in sometimes filthy, and now dangerous, conditions
Use science, not speculation, to save seniors and businesses
DAVID FULLER: Locking down society, and business, makes no sense in the battle against COVID-19. It’s time to take a more measured approach
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