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Jan 8 – Opportunity to Advocate to VC Health Authority

January 3, 2015

To start the year our featured guest speaker will be Ms. Belinda Boyd from the Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) ...

De-prescribing medications to improve your health or Which drug can I stop first?

October 18, 2014

By Cara Tannenbaum, M.D. Geriatrician and Pharmacy Chair in Health and Aging, University of Montreal. Are you ...

Act on dementia: Open Letter to Health Ministers, Paradigm Shift needed: CARP Policy Paper released

September 29, 2014

IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, September 29, 2014 Toronto, ON: As the federal and provincial Health Ministers meet in Banff ...

CARP Member Study Calls for Enhanced Meds Reviews

August 26, 2014

CARP has a long history of weighing in on policy issues facing our health care system to ensure that older Canadians ...

CMA, CARP looking to get seniors’ care on byelection agenda

June 23, 2014

The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) and retiree advocates CARP are teaming up to force seniors’ care onto the ...

Throne Speech missed opportunity to act on retirement security: CARP

October 16, 2013

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 16, 2013 Toronto, ON: CARP members will welcome the prohibition on fees for ...

Canada Needs Pharmacare

June 28, 2013

Conversations around the need for pharmacare reform have been taking place for many years. Notably, a watershed paper ...

CARP wishlist for provincial budget

May 2, 2013

Before the provincial budget has been tabled, the organization CARP has released a wish list of issues they’d like to ...

Election Budget needs bold political leadership – starting with a new vision for aging in Ontario.

April 29, 2013

      FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 29, 2013 Toronto, ON: CARP members will be watching to see ...

Canada’s seniors face high rates of hospitalizations from adverse drug reactions

April 19, 2013

TORONTO – One out of every 200 seniors across Canada is hospitalized because of bad reactions to the medication ...