...current Seniors or future Seniors. Either way, Prime Minister Harper's change to pension ages will affect you. I think mandatory retirement age should be changed to discretionary retirement age, at the option of the individual.
The big issue right now is the long term care of our mature adults who need more care than can be given at home but are not acute enoough for hospitalization.
Alberta Health Services is running out of long term beds so those needing long term placement may be kept in our transition beds in hospital just waiting for placement. This puts a lot of stress on the patients not knowing where they will end up, stress on the families being pressured by the hospital system to take them out & take them home (few families know how to take care of their elderly parents.
Then, of course there is the Government or hospital side of things saying we are running out of beds for people that need acute care but no beds because the frail, elderly are occupying them.... and then, there is the cost associated with keeping people in hospitals. Our elderly can be laying in their beds for months on end just waiting for their permanent placement
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