Older adults need healthcare and social services that respond to their unique needs. For older women, however, research shows that this is not happening.
In 2003, 236 doctors were registered, according to the professional licensing body of the territory’s Department of Health and Social Services. By 2013, that number had grown to 403.
‘You see something that you see so much work you’ve put into it, just being destroyed in a little bit of time. It’s . . . it’s hard to process,’ said the pharmacy owner Danielle Driscoll.
The federal agency says Alberta risks losing federal transfer health payments if it doesn’t do something about it, but Premier Danielle Smith says if rules are being broken they will act.
ERs across the Lower Mainland have made the news for being at capacity and past their breaking points. This overcrowding led to the death of an infant in 2020 and a senior in 2022.
