Health Care and Aboriginal Seniors in Urban Canada: Helping a Neglected Class

• Published in: International Indigenous Policy Journal
• Main Authors: Beatty, Bonita Beulah, Berdahl, Loleen
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship@Western 2011
• Subjects: Aboriginal Seniors; Urban; Canada; Community Health; Geriatric Nursing; Health Policy; Indigenous Studies; Other Public Affairs; Public Policy and Public Administration; Public Affairs; Public Policy; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Social Policy; Urban Studies; Regina; First Nations; inuit
• Online Access: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj/vol2/iss1/10; https://doi.org/10.18584/iipj.2011.2.1.10

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...