Media stories for October 15, 2012

Life and death questions: Canadians waiting too long to decide end-of-life treatment
Vancouver Sun
Dr. Romayne Gallagher of Providence Health Care is quoted in a story about the inevitability of death and advance care planning.

Census: Aging population a potential health-care time bomb
As Canada prepares to wish a happy 65th birthday to its five-millionth senior, lifestyle diseases driven by excess weight and sloth could see people developing age-related ailments faster than generations before them. Dr. Max Cynader, director of the Brain Research Centre and Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health at Vancouver Coastal Health is quoted.

Dick Vollet leaves Street to Home for St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation
Vancouver Courier
Longtime Vancouverite sees correlation between health care and solving the problem homelessness.