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Improvement of Government, Community Resources Would Boost Rural Seniors’ Mental Health in Canada, Panelists Say (Part Three)

by | Dec 6, 2016 | Assisted Living, Geriatrics, Long Term Care, Medicine, Skilled Nursing

Falls and Loss of Mobility Bacsu added that loss of mobility and falls were other prime concerns. They reflected gender differences and involved no discussion of health care to resolve them. Both worsened respondents’ sense of social isolation, limited activities...

Improvement of Government, Community Resources Would Boost Rural Seniors’ Mental Health in Canada, Panelists Say (Part Two)

by | Dec 6, 2016 | Assisted Living, Geriatrics, Long Term Care, Medicine, Skilled Nursing

This is because Canada’s rural areas have residents with lower incomes, less education, less adequate housing, less access to rail and public transit services and lower quality of health care than in the country’s urban areas. “Our rural areas are elderly,” Novik...

Improvement of Government, Community Resources Would Boost Rural Seniors’ Mental Health in Canada, Panelists Say (Part One)

by | Dec 6, 2016 | Assisted Living, Geriatrics, Long Term Care, Medicine, Skilled Nursing

Greater improvement and coordination of government policy programs and community resources would improve the mental health of rural seniors in Canada, university researchers said during a conference on aging in Chicago. During their panel presentation titled “Aging...