Seniors/Aging News Headlines

Ottawa's latest budget has received mixed reviews from across the business and economic community.

An 81-year-old woman with health problems that require home care and weekly chemotherapy shots is being evicted from her subsidized seniors apartment.

REGINA — Fee hikes that affect senior citizens were “tough decisions” in the recent provincial budget but changes needed to be made to keep programs sustainable, Health Minister Don McMorris says. The minster faced criticism from the NDP during question period Thursday over changes in the recent provincial budget that will …

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court begins a three-day referendum on Monday on President Barack Obama's signature legislative achievement, determining whether sweeping health-care laws sneeringly dubbed "Obamacare" by his foes are over-reaching and unconstitutional.

Normally you want your austerity budgets to be ... well ... a little more austere.

Nevada's True Grit program offers a segregated facility and age-appropriate activities for the growing number of greying inmates. It's early days but health costs are down and more prisoners are earning parole. Should Canada follow suit?

Proposed legislation recently unveiled by the federal Conservatives that cracks down on elder abuse and on fraudsters who prey on seniors is being applauded by the president of a P.E.I. seniors' group.

St. John's City Council has rejected a controversial seniors complex proposed for Kilbride.

Even as MPs called on politicians of all stripes to give Elections Canada any information on fraudulent calls received during the last election, anecdotes revealing potentially more suspicious calls emerged across the country.

Some senior citizens in Ottawa say they are not opposed to a suggestion that people earning a higher income pay a greater share of their prescription drug costs.