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The Last Difficult Days of Willi Stratkotter

A family’s concern

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Nursing Home Abuse kept Hidden

Details of abuse in nursing homes kept from public Incident reports obtained by CBC News reveal previously secret allegations of physical, verbal abuse There are about two-hundred unfilled positions...

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Family Violence Against Seniors

Police-reported Family Violence Against Seniors Abuse of seniors is defined as “a single or repeated act, or lack of appropriate action, occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation...

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Animal cruelty

City police issue animal cruelty warrants after dozens of cats euthanized Edmonton police have issued warrants for the arrest of two women after dozens of cats had to be euthanized over serious health...

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Bed Bug Infested, Cascades Nursing Home, Chilliwack,

Sienna Senior Living apologizes to family, admits actions ‘should have been better’ CHARGES SHOULD HAVE BEEN LAID AGAINST OFFENDING STAFF     Rita Bedford, 94, was confined to a bedbug-infested room in...

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Cynthia Hamelin Murders Seniors

Cynthia Hamelin, a 49-year-old woman of Edmonton, Alberta is facing a first-degree murder charge after she allegedly broke into a senior’s home and assaulted a woman who later died of pneumonia caused...

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DriveABLE- Angry Senior Sues

DriveABLE- Angry Senior Sues Over License Ordeal Seniors find getting licence back can be nearly impossible BY CHRIS ZDEB EIGHT MONTHS NIGHTMARE TO RENEW DRIVING LICENSE An Alberta senior is suing...

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Unlawful Confinement of Senior

This formal complaint is a recent development in the ongoing history of Dora Cinciruk. December 28, 2012 Dr. Douglas Faulder, Medical Director, Capital Care Norwood Chief of Police, Mr. Rod Knecht...

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‘POISON PILL’ FOR SENIORS

Dutch to offer ‘poison pill’ to healthy seniors who want to die   The Dutch government has published a study that shows how many people want to end their own lives, prompting a political party to...

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Global Pandemic: Licensing Senior Drivers

Despite a global pandemic, the requirement for older Albertans to have their driving license renewed by a medical doctor, continues to be in effect. We have also learned that at the end of this month,...

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Karen Patching removed mother from Columbia Age Care Home

KAREN PATCHING REMOVED MOTHER FROM SENIORS CARE FACILITY My mother has been a resident of the Age Care facility in West Lethbridge, Alberta, for 4 of the past 5 years. Due to the danger that Columbia...

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Manoir du Lac, McLennan, AB.

EDMONTON — Alberta Health Services is taking over Manoir du Lac, a continuing care facility in McLennan that has seen 37 confirmed COVID-19 cases and five deaths due to “inadequate” care standards....

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Slave Lake , Points West Elder Care

May 01,2020 The untold undignified stories of our Seniors Care Centre Points West in Slave Lake, Alberta. I had my first experience with Points West in Slave Lake with a family of an elder going into...

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Résidence Herron, Montreal

Résidence Herron, a 154-bed private nursing home on Montreal’s West Island. The Quebec coroner, health authorities and the police have launched investigations in the wake of the deaths of 31 residents...

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Gross Nursing Home Negligence

>MONTREAL — Thirty-one people were found dead in less than a month at a nursing home in Montreal, at least five confirmed to have coronavirus — a powerful Canadian emblem of how nursing homes are...

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Abuse of Power

To whom it may concern, ABUSE OF POWER: SENIORS THREATENED WITH EVICTION. I writing this text over concerns about how some of the residents of ______ Lodge in _____, AB have been treated as the...

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Covid Denies Seniors Rights.

I spoke with a lady whom i have known for many years, (by telephone), who is in a locked unit (Edmonton) who strongly told me, “We can’t go outside now.”no fresh air, no exercise, for we do not know...

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Labelled Incompetent, Elders Fight For Control

PATRICK WHITE PUBLISHED AUGUST 30, 2007 UPDATED AUGUST 30, 2007 PUBLISHED AUGUST 30, 2007 This article was published more than 10 years ago. Shortly after she suffered a stroke in 2001, Flora L’Heureux...

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Alberta’s COVID-19 Outbreak Forces Closure of Over 500 Continuing Care Beds

Widespread outbreaks of the coronavirus in Alberta’s continuing care network have forced operators to close hundreds of beds in their facilities, creating a bottleneck in the broader health care system...

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90 yr. old Chooses Euthanasia Rather than Lock-down

90-Year OLD LONG TERM CARE RESIDENT, WHO WAS NOT CHRONICALLY ILL OR DYING, DIED LAST MONTH BY EUTHANASIA (MAID) TO AVOID LIVING THROUGH NOTHER COVID -19 LOCK-DOWN. From June 17, 2016 to October 31,...

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