Health Care and Aboriginal Seniors in Urban Canada: Helping a Neglected Class
Canadian researchers and policymakers have paid limited attention to the health care needs of Aboriginal seniors. This lack of attention is problematic, as the situation of Aboriginal seniors – including both status and non-status First Nations, Métis and Inuit – is particularly bleak. Using Winnipe...
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University of Western Ontario
2011-05-01
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| description | Canadian researchers and policymakers have paid limited attention to the health care needs of Aboriginal seniors. This lack of attention is problematic, as the situation of Aboriginal seniors – including both status and non-status First Nations, Métis and Inuit – is particularly bleak. Using Winnipeg, Regina and Saskatoon as examples, this paper analyses the health care challenges facing Aboriginal seniors in urban Canada. We ask, what policy approaches are needed to improve the health and wellbeing of urban Aboriginal seniors so that they can have good quality living reflective of their needs and culture? We suggest that, in thinking throughpresent and future health services for urban Aboriginal seniors, policymakers should consider four key factors: socioeconomic conditions; underutilization of urban health services; jurisdiction; and elder abuse. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a717e5051c3e4539a30868d546e8e6712022-12-21T19:16:19ZengUniversity of Western OntarioInternational Indigenous Policy Journal1916-57812011-05-012110Health Care and Aboriginal Seniors in Urban Canada: Helping a Neglected ClassLoleen BerdahlBonita Beulah BeattyCanadian researchers and policymakers have paid limited attention to the health care needs of Aboriginal seniors. This lack of attention is problematic, as the situation of Aboriginal seniors – including both status and non-status First Nations, Métis and Inuit – is particularly bleak. Using Winnipeg, Regina and Saskatoon as examples, this paper analyses the health care challenges facing Aboriginal seniors in urban Canada. We ask, what policy approaches are needed to improve the health and wellbeing of urban Aboriginal seniors so that they can have good quality living reflective of their needs and culture? We suggest that, in thinking throughpresent and future health services for urban Aboriginal seniors, policymakers should consider four key factors: socioeconomic conditions; underutilization of urban health services; jurisdiction; and elder abuse.http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1024&context=iipjAboriginal seniorsurbanCanada |
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| title | Health Care and Aboriginal Seniors in Urban Canada: Helping a Neglected Class |
| title_full | Health Care and Aboriginal Seniors in Urban Canada: Helping a Neglected Class |
| title_fullStr | Health Care and Aboriginal Seniors in Urban Canada: Helping a Neglected Class |
| title_full_unstemmed | Health Care and Aboriginal Seniors in Urban Canada: Helping a Neglected Class |
| title_short | Health Care and Aboriginal Seniors in Urban Canada: Helping a Neglected Class |
| title_sort | health care and aboriginal seniors in urban canada helping a neglected class |
| topic | Aboriginal seniors urban Canada |
| url | http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1024&context=iipj |
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