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Canada’s aging population: demographic time bomb or economic myth

Twenty years ago, the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) identified the challenge of caring for an aging population as the most pressing problem facing the Canadian health care system.

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An Amazing Village Designed Just For People With Dementia

Centuries after Shakespeare wrote about King Lear’s symptoms, there’s still no perfect way to care for sufferers of dementia and Alzheimer’s. In the Netherlands, however, a radical idea is being tested: Self-contained “villages” where people with dementia shop, cook, and live together—safely.

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