With the fast-increasing senior population around the world (including Canada), the increasing incidence of dementia follows. We hear regularly about the rising rates of dementia in many countries, but it seems to me that we hear less about what’s happening in the area of research into the diseases collectively known as “Dementia.” While we are […]
Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston are undertaking a massive research effort to determine if a new experimental drug can protect the brains of seniors who are currently healthy but may have some signs of risk. Mr. Peter Bristol, of Rhode Island, was the first person to qualify for the research. His mother died […]
Reasons for judgement were released last month in the case of Berg v. Murphy Estate. In this case, the deceased (who died in late 2010) and the Plaintiff had had a fifteen-year common law relationship. The couple entered a Cohabitation Agreement in 2006 that provided for the surviving spouse, who received $200,000 from the sale of their Salmon Arm house […]