SOWK 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Canada Health Act, Doctor Of Philosophy, 18 Months
19 Jan 2017
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By 2051, 25% of the population will be over 65. Most seniors are healthy, active and financially independent. In the 2011 census, seniors made up 14. 8%, up from 13. 7% five years earlier. Seniors are the one of biggest users of health care. This is mostly the oldest old over 80. In canada, the growing percentage of seniors is anticipated to strain public health care provision, and this concern is being used to justify policy change. Public health care has been under new attack as too expensive and inefficient since the changes to federal funding in the mid-1990s. There are reasons to ask questions about who will benefit and who will pay if public health care for older people is more restricted. Problem with privatization: less incentive for healthcare. Right now, most (over 80%) of all care for frail older people is provided by families, and the vast majority of the work is done by women.
