Letter To The Editor | OrilliaMatters.com
By Steven Kaszab on February 20th, 2024
Editor’s note: This letter was updated on Feb. 23, 2024 to clarify monthly costs cited are related to assisted-living facilities, not long-term-care homes.
Heartless corporations who could charge less for their services are always available for those with the cash, pensions and financial legacy…
Are you a senior looking for a place to live out your remaining years, or are you family members who would like to find a place for your elderly and possibly fragile ailing parent to live?
According to Stats Canada as many as 39 per cent of Canadians have little or no savings to hold them over during their senior years. Costs for the healthcare and senior living sectors will continue to grow as we are all getting older.
Challenges to seniors’ rights continue to press the government to serve Canadians more, with less available. Less senior beds, housing, staffing to service these growing demographics. Senior Living Magazine talks about a synergy between what seniors and all Canadians are facing, timely low housing starts, affordable housing starts, medical staffing leaving their provinces and nation to find much better paying jobs elsewhere. This all falls upon the shoulders of our politicians and specialists/planners who knew the population was aging, and housing, beds, staff were not available to the numbers needed. No one seems to know how to think ahead…
Our expectations must now change, evolve with other options and alternatives to nice places where our elderly parents can live out their lives.
It is no wonder why MAID and euthanasia have become so popular among our financially —or medically— challenged seniors. Is death preferable to bankruptcy, medical alienation, isolation from family, making your family financially broke? Sure no one believes that, but why then are many thousands of seniors living out their lives in poverty and continual crisis?
Steven Kaszab
