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Let’s build a place you’d want to live
It’s time to give last rites to the worn-out medical/institutional model of long-term care. The swelling wave of grey baby boomers will not stand for it. It’s time to develop long-term care that allows seniors, no matter what stage they are at, to live life to the fullest… We need to stop medicalizing old age, even dementia, and to stop drugging people in facilities. We need to normalize old age and its challenges, to start seeing the potential in people no matter how elderly.
Tags: disabilities, Health, housing, mental Health, standard of living
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Who Needs $80 Billion? Starve Us Some More!
… thanks to the incredible generosity of the federal government, “Canadians” have an extra $30 billion in their pockets… almost $1,000 per person… Except that the “average” is meaningless… There was no suggestion that the $30 billion could also be seen as lost revenue and lost services… No debate about whether the poorest 20 per cent are better off with an extra $500 to spend or whether they might actually be better off with affordable child care, Pharmacare, low tuition fees for their kids or affordable housing.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, Health, housing, pharmaceutical, standard of living, tax
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Canada’s aboriginal well-being efforts ‘insufficient,’ UN envoy says
He urges the federal government to: Consult aboriginal people and address any ”any outstanding concerns” related to Bill C-33, the government’s First Nations education bill; Launch “a comprehensive, nationwide inquiry” into the issue of missing and murdered aboriginal women; Ensure the mandate of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is extended; Take “urgent action” to address the housing crisis both on and off reserves; Provide “sufficient funding” for services both on and off reserves, including in areas of education, health and child welfare
Tags: featured, housing, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living
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Crushing the caregivers
There is a veneer of civility, and some “integration,” but mostly, families with disabled relatives are on their own to navigate the system… no one person, or even two parents are capable of taking care of a severely disabled person 24 hours a day, every day and night of the week until someone in the equation (parent or child) dies. Yet, this is the reality, and generally what is expected and required of parents by policy design or omission. If we continue to ignore this fact, there will be further avoidable tragedies.
Tags: disabilities, Health, housing, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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Toronto research centre takes a deeper look at domestic violence
… Agencies serving victims of domestic violence often fail to work together, leaving women to run from place to place to rebuild their lives… aboriginal women are four times more likely to experience domestic violence than their non-aboriginal counterparts… ethnic and cultural factors… accounted for only half the discrepancy. The rest was explained by poverty, poor education and deleterious forms of self-medication (alcohol and drugs).
Tags: crime prevention, housing, Indigenous, mental Health, multiculturalism, poverty, women
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Paper wealth provides little security
On paper, they’re better off because of a 47-per-cent appreciation in the value of homes since 2005. But that kind of wealth can shrink… Younger families didn’t do nearly as well in the survey as their baby-boomer parents… Household debt rose at a faster pace than assets… The poorest 20 per cent of the population — some 2.7 million families — lost ground.
Tags: economy, housing, poverty, standard of living
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Closer reading of StatsCan report troubling for middle class
… most of this net worth increase is due to phenomenal inflation in home values… [but] Mortgage debt… is reported to be up $650 billion since 2005. Total debts on lines of credit have almost doubled since 2005… median real earnings of individuals working full-time on a full-year basis between 1980 and 2005 increased… a paltry $53 over 25 years… Earnings growth numbers, therefore, do not reveal a financially thriving middle class.
Tags: economy, featured, housing, ideology, standard of living
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Ontario needs strategy for boom in elderly with dementia
… the longer we all live, the greater the odds of developing dementia… First, some alternative housing is needed for residents with dementia, to focus on their needs — without using harmful anti-psychotic drugs as a chemical restraint… the current [nursing home] staffing formula must be changed because it doesn’t take into account the time demands of residents with unpredictable behaviour… A dementia strategy, and the staff to implement it, is long overdue.
Tags: disabilities, Health, housing, mental Health, standard of living
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