"The Indignity of Aging: Ontario's Homecare System"

Part 1. Susan Bosak is one of thousands of middle-aged Ontarians struggling to look after an aging parent. She needed care and support. Instead, says Bosak, "What we got was a bureaucracy".
Listen (runs 6:15)

Part 2. Mary Wiens takes a bus ride with Yvonne Greaves, a veteran home care worker. Most homecare workers live below the poverty line. Greaves' goal -- to make it a better system for both the workers and their clients.
Listen (runs 6:16)



Part 3. Mary Wiens talked with sociologist Pat Armstrong of York University about why "women's work" -- cooking, cleaning and bathing elderly people -- is critical to good health. And why homecare is crtiical to Ontario's healthcare system..
Listen (runs 7:12)

Part 4. Mary Wiens will be back with a view from inside the system. Stacey Daub, director of one of the largest community care access centres in the province, talks about restoring "care" to homecare.
Listen (runs 6:16)

Part 5. This morning, Mary Wiens is back to tell us what the labour dispute reveals about a system strained to the breaking point.
Listen (runs 7:08)