Patient Lifestyle

“Canada does not have a high-performing health system” is the central message of Stephen Duckett’s Where to from Here? Keeping Medicare Sustainable (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012). In his view, the Canadian system might be better than many others and there may be pockets of excellence, but Canada does not have a health system in which, as the saying goes, “the right person enables the right care in the right setting, on time, every time.”

TORONTO | Although Canadians are aware the incidence of Alzheimer’s is expected to double in the next 15 years, the vast majority of them have not prepared a homecare contingency plan in the event that they or a loved one are diagnosed with the disease.