While this particular article is from the Irish press and has nothing to do with old age or seniors or anything in Canada, it does reflect on the effects of the profit motive and institutional care on the needy and infirm:
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/scandal-of-abuse-at-irish-tycoons-care-homes-2834887.html
Two of the richest men in Ireland profit by allowing mentally challenged adults to exist in substandard care. I do not know how families, who feel they have no choice for their loved ones, can allow them to remain in such a situation; there is always a choice...sometimes it is just hard to make.
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