According to the latest census, Saanich is home to 23,715 people 65 years and older – about 20.7 per cent of the total population. (Saanich News file photo) By many measures, today’s seniors live longer, wealthier and healthier lives than seniors at any other time in history.
Consider the numbers. In 1921, life expectancy for Canadian men at birth was 58.8 years, for women, 60.6 years, according to Statistics Canada. Fifty years later, life expectancy for men had risen to 69.4 years, for women to 76.5 years. In 2017, life expectancy for men had reached 79 years, for women 83. […]
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