President’s Message 06/06/2022
For the past year, the ACER-CART Executive and committees have been working actively on seniors’ issues. Growing familiarity with the Zoom platform has enabled us... Read More
ACER-CART Aging At Home [eng2]
ACER-CART Aging At Home [eng2]
ACER-CART Aging At Home [eng1]
ACER-CART Aging At Home [eng1]
Fundraising for Ukrainian Education Needs
As the war in Ukraine continues, devasting reports indicate over ten million Ukrainians are on the move. This means an increasing number of school-aged children... Read More
Mar 25, 2022 – Message from the President
March 25, 2022 Spring has returned to Canada and not a moment too soon. Last year will NOT be fondly remembered here in BC—the heat... Read More
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)
The federal MAID legislation modifications were approved in March 2021. (https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/medical-assistance-dying.html) There are however provincial/territorial variations in application and access. Members are encouraged to investigate... Read More
Advanced Care Planning
Among other things, Covid has, unfortunately, demonstrated the need for Advanced Care Planning and personal directives. The website https://www.advancecareplanning.ca/ offers resources and the opportunity to... Read More
The Bilateral Health Accords
How is your province/Territory doing? When the federal government and respective provinces and territories signed these individual 10-year accords it was agreed that monitoring would... Read More
Support pension protection. We need your help again!
Pension protection is sadly lacking and much needed in Canada. Since 1982, more than 250,000 Canadian vulnerable seniors have suffered the loss of pension income... Read More
Pharmacare
Universal pharmacare continues to be an ACER-CART priority. Recently appointed Health Minister Duclos’s mandate letter includes “Continue engaging with willing provinces and territories towards national... Read More