Aging? What’s to be done?

The pandemic is exposing many cracks in Canada's already porous seniors' care system. We don't have much time to fix the problem, so we better get started.

Minster of Seniors Deb Schulte, pictured on the Hill on Sept. 25, 2020, is tasked with working with provincial and territorial governments to manage long term care issues stemming from the pandemic. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DON DRUMMOND AND DUNCAN SINCLAIR

February 8, 2021

Some 60 years ago, about the time the last of the baby boomers were being born, people over 65 made up about 7.5 per cent of Canada's population. Now they are 17.5 per cent and will be nearly 25 per cent (10.8 million) in twenty years. And they are living longer. Curre...

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