{"id":53834,"date":"2015-06-30T16:54:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T08:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=53834"},"modified":"2015-06-30T16:54:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T08:54:24","slug":"new-brunswick-doctors-announce-roundtable-discussion-on-senior-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/30\/new-brunswick-doctors-announce-roundtable-discussion-on-senior-care\/","title":{"rendered":"New Brunswick doctors announce roundtable discussion on senior care"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_53837\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53837\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/shutterstock_126288149_810_500_55_s_c1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53837\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/shutterstock_126288149_810_500_55_s_c1.jpg\" alt=\"(Shutterstock image)\" width=\"810\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/shutterstock_126288149_810_500_55_s_c1.jpg 810w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/shutterstock_126288149_810_500_55_s_c1-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Shutterstock image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>FREDERICTON \u2013 Doctors in New Brunswick are planning to hold a roundtable discussion in September to address issues around senior care in the province.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Medical Association and the New Brunswick Medical Society are inviting representatives from government, health care and patient groups to share input on how to care for the province&#8217;s aging population at the roundtable scheduled for Sept. 22.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say New Brunswick\u2019s population is tied for being the oldest in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Chris Simpson of the Canadian Medical Association says the province is struggling to meet the health needs of its seniors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs someone who leads doctors around the country, I point often to New Brunswick as being the canary in the coal mine of what we know will occur in other provinces,\u201d Simpson said in a news release on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Simpson says the situation in New Brunswick demonstrates the need for federal leadership on senior care.<\/p>\n<p>Last week the province announced a summit for October aimed at tackling the issue of seniors being kept in hospitals while awaiting placement in nursing homes or other care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeniors living in hospital who don&#8217;t want or need to be there pose a challenge to emergency rooms, surgery wait times and physician recruitment,\u201d Dr. Camille Haddad of the New Brunswick Medical Society said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>The roundtable in September is expected to discuss provincial health care solutions as well as the need for a national strategy for seniors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FREDERICTON \u2013 Doctors in New Brunswick are planning to hold a roundtable discussion in September to address issues around senior &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":53837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-53834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}