KEY FINDINGS The wide majority of members know someone with dementia, more than a third know a caregiver to someone with dementia (including one tenth of members) and a quarter claims to have a history of dementia in their family. Remaining active and social is seen as the key to avoiding the onset of dementia, […]
Key Findings – Fire Safety February 7, 2013: Members agree overwhelmingly that fire codes must demand all seniors living facilities be retrofitted for sprinklers, and that there be a national set of fire safety standards for these buildings. Just one third think sprinklers should be required equipment in seniors residences and long term care facilities […]
Key Findings – CPP January 10, 2013: When presented with two government positions – one that Canada has never been wealthier and the other that Canada is not wealthy enough to afford expanding CPP, members agree this means the government will never declare the economy healthy enough to sustain a bigger CPP, because it […]
Key Findings August 23, 2013: There has been a significant increase in the proportion of members who say they live day-to-day and cheque-to-cheque, and a significant decrease in those who say they live comfortably in retirement since we started asking this four years ago, and this change has occurred in the past year. The vast […]
Key Findings August 9, 2013: CARP members look to the premiers for leadership on very important files related to health care reform in general and generic pharmaceutical purchasing specifically, as well as setting national health care standards, but they regard the Premiers’ Conferences themselves with some skepticism. Health care files are seen to be the […]
Key Findings July 12, 2013: Most CARP members are politically involved, and are concerned about the lack of transparency in government. Their biggest complaints about the political process center on MPs who toe the party line at the expense of constituent needs, and their strongest message to MPs is to think of the country, not […]
June 28, 2013: A small but insistent proportion of members have been abused as elders across the years we’ve polled, but many more know someone who has been abused, more than 6 times the official estimates, which would indicate substantial under-reporting. There is agreement that greater public and official/media awareness will lead to the […]
Key Findings June 14, 2013: Two thirds of CARP members are aware of PRPPs and more than half disagree they are the answer to chronic under-savings and retirement insecurity. The majority disagree with the federal finance minister that the economy cannot withstand increased CPP contributions and benefits, and most agree CPP enhancement is the best […]
Key Findings May 31st, 2013: CARP members are fully retired and not working for the most part, but some who are retired work part-time, pro bono or volunteer. Half our members who still work do so because they like to work, not because they need the money. The other half work because they have […]
KEY FINDINGS May 17, 2013: For the first time since CARP began polling its members (in October, 2008), the Liberals lead the Conservatives in voter preference, while the NDP has sunk to far third place. This is significant, in that it marks the culmination of a trend which began last fall, and the CARP membership […]