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Safety alarms for seniors prolong independent living
While clearing out her mother’s cupboards after moving her into a seniors’ home, Elaine Burt found a large peanut jar filled with prescription drugs. “When my mom was sick, she was forgetting to take...
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Ottawa financial adviser accused of bilking elderly clients — including...
Ottawa financial adviser Conrad Eagan made a name for himself for being trusted by his elderly clients, but an Ottawa police investigation now casts him as a villain who defrauded several of them —...
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Letters: Community mailboxes aren't really so bad; and other views
Community mailboxes aren’t really so bad Re: Community mailboxes loom as an election issue, July 2. Approximately 10 years ago when we lived in Almonte, community mailboxes were installed, with ours...
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Letter: Not everyone needs child care benefit
Re: Larger child benefits could handcuff parties – and will still be taxed, July 21. I see the government is starting to pay out the Enhanced Universal Child Care Benefit to those with children who...
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The Campaign trail: What happened on Tuesday
The Conservatives VANCOUVER – Leader Stephen Harper plans to provide tax relief for single and widowed seniors. At a campaign stop Tuesday, Harper said a $2,000 single-seniors tax credit would help...
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Grand: A struggle with dementia and the health care system
Re: Ontario’s long-term care problem: Seniors staying at home longer isn’t a cure for waiting lists, March 11. I fully understand the difficulties in regards to long-term care wait times that were...
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Egan: Too old to count? Senior miffed at being denied census form
Does Statistics Canada think residents of retirement homes are too old, too infirm or just too dim to fill out a census form? No. But to some, it feels that way. Lois Schmidt is 85 and lives in a...
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Ten questions researchers wish Census Canada would ask seniors in long-term care
Although all of the questions to the entire short-form survey were answered by administration for some seniors in long-term care, in other cases only a scant four questions were answered by...
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Here's why the census requires more questions about seniors in long-term care
It has been called the grey wave, a demographic tide that will sweep across this country. However, researchers say Canada is poorly prepared to deal with its ballooning population of senior citizens,...
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Seniors are easy riders in Bruyère's new biking program
A seniors home in Orléans has a new bike that will give residents the chance to enjoy the scenic trails along the Ottawa River, while someone else does the work. At the core of Bruyère Continuing...
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Coffee and lies: Seniors' breakfast club keeps on the sunny side
Five tables form a single row at the McDonald’s restaurant on Bank Street in South Keys. There used to be four of them in two arrangements near the soft drink dispensers, but the restaurant added a...
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Going strong at 100: 'Social butterfly' brings joy to others
They call her the epitome of a social butterfly — a woman whose smile is infectious, whose health is seemingly rock-solid, and whose ability to entertain a room with her piano-playing is dazzling....
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Gatineau police probe theft from seniors at retirement home
Gatineau police say there could be more victims after a 92-year-old woman was robbed by an orderly at a retirement home. Police said the woman caught the orderly stealing money and jewelry from her...
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The UpBeat: Program brightens the holidays for Ottawa seniors
This season, many Ottawa seniors who are alone will receive some holiday cheer thanks to the Be a Santa to a Senior program. Sponsored by the local Home Instead Senior Care office, the program brings...
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Letter: Spread some salt — and good cheer
May I make a suggestion to Canada Post now that it expects more and more seniors to go to a community box for their mail? Please have the men and women who deliver to those boxes carry a shovel and...
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Seniors centre seeks exemption to keep money-making parking lot
An Ottawa seniors’ centre wants the city to approve a zoning exemption so it can continue renting out parking spaces to the public. The Good Companions is a non-profit facility at 670 Albert St. that...
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Ottawa woman, 74, accused of drug trafficking
A 74-year-old woman was charged with trafficking marijuana after a month-long Ottawa police street crime investigation. Police said the investigation began in December 2014 in response to public...
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Champlain region worst in Ontario for falls by seniors requiring hospitalization
Seniors in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario require hospitalization or emergency treatment for falls far more often than those in the rest of Ontario, says the Champlain Local Health Integration Network....
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Fire quelled at Richmond Road apartment high-rise
Fire alarm tests at a Richmond Road highrise on Tuesday turned into the real thing just past noon. “They were testing the fire alarms today, and it was beeping all day,” said Jen Murray, 30, who lives...
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The federal budget: Here's what to look for
The Conservative government’s first balanced budget in eight years is expected to sprinkle billions in spending on long-promised tax cuts and transit projects across Canada, months before a federal...
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