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A younger woman dancing with an older woman while several people sit and stand in a circle around them, playing tambourines and other instruments.

Canada’s aging population needs more personal support workers

Illustration of a tree with leaves shaped like hearts. On the branches, they are red. Some of them turn into birds flying away. The fallen leaves are dark or light grey.

The mirage of “death as a benefit”

A paramedic stands among eight or nine patients in a hallway.

The end-of-life care, environment and health system ‘polycrisis’ needs a new approach

How to help older Canadians continue to work

Illustration of a woman lying in a hospital bed. She’s on a ventilator, and her eyes are closed.

Reality, not religion, is the reason people need MAiD-free health care

Illustration d’une femme poussant une femme âgée en fauteuil roulant dans une chambre.

Improving palliative care requires better data

Provinces need to learn to share lessons as the need for home care and long-term care ramps up

Make palliative care a priority in health-care funding negotiations

Talk to your family now about going on a ventilator

How far should the assisted-death law go? Look to the Charter

Age-tech will be huge for the silver economy

Hard time gets unduly hard for aging prisoners

Advance assisted dying requests would correct flaw

When crowdfunding pays for bunk medical treatments

Has stopping eating and drinking become a path to assisted dying?

Use your right brain to better understand palliative care

Faith-based care and medical assistance in dying

Palliative care is misunderstood and often forgotten

Society will gain when family caregivers are supported

Recognizing the worth of natural caregivers

Implementing assisted-dying legislation in a social policy vacuum

Bouquets and brickbats for the proposed assisted dying legislation

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