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Ensuring
seniors are cared for
MP
GURBAX MALHI, Special to the Brampton Guardian
Ensuring
that Canadian seniors are cared for in their later years
is a priority for the Government of Canada.
By
offering a Guaranteed Income Supplement to all seniors
who meet the income requirements, we ensure every older
Canadian can enjoy a reasonable annual income.
Social
Development Canada administers three income support programs
that provide benefits to seniors. They are Old Age Security,
the Guaranteed Income Supplement and the Canada Pension
Plan.
The Guaranteed
Income Supplement provides additional money to low-income
Canadian seniors, above and beyond Old Age Security pensions.
Unfortunately,
some seniors in dire straights still do not know about
these three income support programs.
I would, therefore,
encourage all Brampton Guardian readers to please pass
on this important information to any seniors they may
know. The GIS may provide seniors with more monthly money
that could be used for such essentials as groceries, medicine,
or rent.
As a community,
Bramalea-Gore-Malton is renowned for its sense of social
caring and generosity of spirit. Taking care of one another
is a trademark quality of our community.
In order to
provide all Canadian seniors with equal access to the
guaranteed income supplement, the Government of Canada
offers retroactive payments in some cases. If you were
not aware of the GIS and have applied late, you may be
eligible for retroactive payments of up to eleven months
in addition to the month the Government receives your
application.
For
more information about the Guaranteed Income Supplement,
about how to obtain an application form, or regarding
Government of Canada programs for seniors, please call
1-800-277-9914 or visit
www.sdc.gc.ca.
Health
Headlines from Reuters
Tanzania wants 44,000 HIV patients on drugs by Dec
17
Mar 2005 13:53:16 GMT
By Helen Nyambura
DAR ES SALAAM, March 17 (Reuters) - Tanzania plans to
sharply increase the number of HIV patients receiving
life prolonging medicines by the end of this year with
the help of donors, the health minister said on Thursday.
About 12 to 15 percent of Tanzanian adults are infected
with HIV, while 200,000 of them are in acute need of antiretroviral
therapy (ART) or medicines that slow the progress of AIDS,
U.N. statistics show.
FEATURE-Bush
pushes sexual abstinence for teens despite data
17
Mar 2005 13:00:11 GMT
By Alan Elsner
NEW MARKET, Md., March 17 (Reuters) - Half a dozen 13-year-old
boys munch pizza and slurp soda as they watch a video
on how to resist peer pressure.
Afterwards, a counselor asks them how they might be able
to counteract social pressure to engage in sexual activity.
But most of the boys aren't listening. Even after one
of them is ejected from the Maryland classroom, they push
and shove, make rude noises and insult the counselor and
each other. Eventually, the session wraps up without any
real discussion. Welcome to sexual abstinence-only education
in 2005. In the past five years, President George W. Bush
has more than doubled funding for such programs, which
teach that abstinence from sexual activity until marriage
is the only sure way to avoid out-of-wedlock pregnancy,
sexually transmitted diseases, and other health problems.
Anti-malaria use of DDT
may be necessary evil
By Katherine Arie
02 Apr 2003
DDT is effective against malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
JOHANNESBURG (AlertNet) - Decades after DDT was banned
by the United States and most Western countries, the notorious
pesticide has made a comeback in the battle against malaria
in sub-Saharan Africa, which has 90 percent of the world's
malaria cases and 80 percent of the deaths caused by the
disease.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), malaria
kills an Afri 30 seconds. The disease also has debilitating
effects on African economies. Economists estimate it is
responsible for a drag on growth worth billions of dollars
a year.
Perhaps not surprisingly, a handful of countries, including
South Africa, Zambia, Mauritius, and Madagascar, have
reintroduced DDT, which remains the cheapest and most
effective method for controlling mosquitoes, in their
malaria-control programmes.
In November, African ministers and health experts at the
Commonwealth Regional Health Ministers Conference in Kampala,
Uganda, urged member states to use DDT to combat malaria.
Afterwards, Uganda announced that it, too, would start
spraying DDT to control malaria-carrying mosquitoes and
gave South Africa as an example.
Information
for Seniors
RELATED RESOURCES Health
Canada
Division of Aging and Seniors
CARP
Canadian Association for the Fifty-Plus.
Healthy Ontario
Visit their Web site.
Canadian Coalition for Seniors Mental
Health
To promote the mental health of older persons/seniors
by connecting people, ideas and resources.
Canadian Pensioners
Concerned
Visit their Web site.
Ontario Association of Community Care Access
Centres
Telephone: 416-750-1720
Toronto Community Care Access Centre
Telephone: 416-506-9888
The
Encyclopedia of Health and Aging
The complete guide to well-being in your later years.
The
Complete Canadian Health Guide
By June Engel, Ph.D.
Relevant
Retirement External Links
www.goanvoice.ca
does not endorse and is not responsible for the content
of any linked documents
Retirement
strategist P.J.
Wade
Dr. Alan Roadburg has a "retirement
program" you can do at home
Canadian Association
of Retired Persons, Canada's association for the 50+
Report on Canada Pension Plan issues for women (1998)
by Simon Fraser University gerontology researcher
Human
Resources Development Canada – information on
the Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security programs
Scotiabank
Reality Check Calculator – a popular, often-quoted
retirement calculator
Imperial Life Assurance
Co. Retirement Calculator – a thorough calculator
that offers analysis and recommendations
seclonLogic
Inc. Retirement Calculator –: one of the most
sophisticated calculators on the Web, with plenty of variables
to play with
RetireWeb –
the work of a Montreal actuary, this site has several
relevant calculators
Bank
of Canada Inflation Calculator
Canadian
Association of Financial Planners
