From a Canadian Perspective:

• GST/HST Changes Affect Home and Palliative Care, Pensions
• Using the Montessori Method to combat dementia
• Province-wide Seniors Safety Line now available
• Elisa inspires research into rare disease
  Written by: Lisa Queen on July 18^th, 2011
• Ontario’s hurry-up-and-die approach needs fixing
  Written by: Thomas Walkom from the Toronto Star on Saturday February 26^th, 2011
• Begging for Care series (Toronto Star) – 2011:
  • Part I — Home care promised by hospital never arrives
  • Part II — Daughter copes at home with two ailing parents
  • Part III — Pay $1,800 a day or get out: Hospital
  • Part IV — Province to hospitals: stop threatening $1,800 fees
  • Part V — Begging for Care: Keeping seniors healthy and at home
  • Part VI — Overworked caregiver says system ‘broken’
  • Family spends thousands on private home care
  • Part VII — McGuinty tells hospitals to end fees forcing patients into nursing homes
  • Part VIII — Should taxpayers foot bill for seniors’ bath?
  • Part IX — Fix the home care system, families demand
  • Part X — Senior leaves nursing home with help of home care
  • The elder care crisis: comments from readers of the series
• Preparing for Long-Term Care: Any Good Options?
  Written by: Janet Morrissey from TIME on Tuesday February 8^th, 2011
• Students Help Alzheimer Patients (First Nations)
  Written by: ICTMN Staff from Indian Country TMN on February 4^th, 2011
• Who is looking after your parents? (Re: Live-in foreign caregivers)
  Written by: Carole Goar from the Toronto Star on Thursday January 13^th, 2011
• Home-care report a wake-up call for McGuinty
  Written by: Bob Hepburn from the Toronto Star on Thursday December 9^th, 2010
• Little Old Ladies Are Crashing The System
  Written by: Margaret Wente from the Globe and Mail on Saturday November 11^th, 2010

From a Worldwide Perspective:

• Living in the Moment: Dutch Village Offers Dignified Care for Dementia Sufferers
  Written by: Trevor Weeding on April 9^th, 2012
• Head injuries can have ‘physical link to dementia’
  Written by: Eleanor Bradford on July 20^th, 2011
• Dilnot Commission: millions of working adults will have to care for elderly parents
  Written by: Tim Ross, the Social Affairs Editor at The Telegraph (UK) on December 1, 2010
• Children Ease Alzheimer’s in Land of Aging
  Written by: Pam Belluck from The New York Times on November 25, 2010 (A story based in South Korea)
• Global Age-Friendly Cities: A Guide
  Written by: The World Health Organization in 2007