January 22, 2018

Community Legal Assistance Society Publishes Report on BC’s Mental Health System

On November 29, 2017, Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS) published its report “Operating in Darkness: BC’s Mental Health Act Detention System”, and an accompanying press release. The report details the deprivation of rights faced by mental health patients who are involuntarily admitted under the current BC Mental Health Act. The Read more…

March 29, 2017

New reports shed light on seniors and antipsychotic medications

In the last few months, a number of reports and news stories have highlighted older people’s use of medications, and more specifically antipsychotics. We share what we have learned and how this is relevant for the project we recently launched on health care consent and aging. In February, the Canadian Read more…

February 14, 2017

Informed health care consent, aging and dementia: making it happen

January was Alzheimer Awareness Month, making it a great time for the Canadian Centre for Elder Law (CCEL) to launch a new project that seeks to help people living with dementia better understand their right to consent to health care treatment and medication. In collaboration with the Alzheimer Society of Read more…