Dual investments in home care and housing maximize support for seniors: PS Vaughan

'I can’t stress enough how critical it is having both those policies working in tandem,' Liberal MP Adam Vaughan says of the importance of the government's multibillion dollar home care pledge and promised national housing strategy for seniors.

Liberal MP and parliamentary secretary Adam Vaughan defended his government's decision to revert back to 65 as the eligibility age for old-age security, arguing the move is 'entirely affordable' and will help hundreds of thousands of seniors out of poverty. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY MARCO VIGLIOTTI

May 3, 2017

Canada’s demographic reality has long been seen as one of the country’s major public policy challenges of the decades to come. The large contingent of baby boomers, born after the Second World War amidst a fertility surge that remade Canada, is reaching retirement, with no younger generation l...

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