NickG – My Healthcare Concierge http://www.myhealthcareconcierge.ca Tue, 19 Jul 2016 20:43:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.4 Canada’s aging population: demographic time bomb or economic myth http://www.myhealthcareconcierge.ca/canadas-aging-population-demographic-time-bomb-or-economic-myth/ Tue, 19 Jul 2016 20:40:23 +0000 http://www.medcarecanada.com/?p=886

Twenty years ago, the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) identified the challenge of caring for an aging population as the most pressing problem facing the Canadian health care system.

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]]> An Amazing Village Designed Just For People With Dementia http://www.myhealthcareconcierge.ca/amazing-village-designed-just-people-dementia/ Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:22:11 +0000 http://www.medcarecanada.com/?p=880 Centuries after Shakespeare wrote about King Lear’s symptoms, there’s still no perfect way to care for sufferers of dementia and Alzheimer’s. In the Netherlands, however, a radical idea is being tested: Self-contained “villages” where people with dementia shop, cook, and live together—safely.

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