October 28, 2021
2021 Richmond Virtual Diversity Symposium Panel Video
For this year’s City of Richmond Virtual Diversity Symposium, the Canadian Centre for Elder Law hosted a panel on its Engaging People Living with Dementia in Decision-Making Project. This panel, featuring Jessica Fehrenbacher, Jerry Gosling, and Myrna Norman, highlighted initial findings from CCEL’s ongoing consultations with people living with disabilities, people Read more…
September 20, 2021
Project Update: Engaging People Living with Dementia in Decision-Making
The Canadian Centre for Elder Law (CCEL) is collaborating on a three-year project with people living with dementia, their care partners, and health care providers. The goal of this project is to work with people with different kinds of disabilities to identify strategies that can support people living with dementia Read more…
September 10, 2021
Making Decisions While Living With Dementia: An Interview With Craig Burns
In Canada, approximately 76,000 people are diagnosed with dementia every year. People living with dementia regularly face stigma and misconceptions that make living with the disease a challenge. Sometimes family members and professionals don’t recognize how someone living with dementia is capable of directing their own life choices. The Canadian Centre for Read more…
April 19, 2021
BC Creates Guidance on Visitation in Long-Term Care and Assisted Living
Introduction In 2021, the BC government made several changes and clarifications on the long-term care (LTC) and assisted living (AL) visitor rules. This blog outlines some of the new rules, new orders, and points of interpretation listed in the guidance. On January 7, 2021 the BC government released guidance on Read more…
April 15, 2021
A closer look at the Report on Pension Division: Death of a spouse
This post is part of a series highlighting key recommendations in the Report on Pension Division: A Review of Part 6 of the Family Law Act. For other posts in the series click here. Brief description of the issue Even though general provisions of family law and wills-and-estates law address Read more…