B.C. Conservatives pledge to build more long-term care beds in plan for seniors

B.C. Conservative Leader Lorne Doerkson was at a home in Coquitlam Friday (Oct. 9) to lay out his party’s priorities for seniors in the province.
The party’s plan for seniors includes: reversing the NDP’s changes to the property-tax deferment program, building more long-term care beds, supporting at-home aging, expanding HandyDART, providing free shingles vaccines for seniors, improving access to hearing aids, among other promises.
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