‘Turning a blind eye’: Home-care advocates say seniors should age in place

'Turning a blind eye’: Home-care advocates say seniors should age in place
Holly Schick, right, and Linda Anderson stand for a portrait outside the Saskatchewan Seniors Mechanism office in June. PHOTO BY KAYLE NEIS /Regina Leader-Post

The province says it’s open to start a conversation about how seniors can live in their homes longer.

When Hadi Taherian began looking for home care for his grandmother and in-laws in Saskatchewan, he soon found his options became limited.

His relatives were adamant that they didn’t want to go into a retirement home, but it seemed that was the only choice given to them.

“Especially my in-laws, they’re set on living where they are until their end of life, which I understand because they’ve been so independent,” Taherian said in an interview on Wednesday. “They love their home and there’s no place like home.”

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