Surrey man calling on feds to declare dementia a national health emergency<\/p>\n
Published 2:30 pm Wednesday, April 1, 2026<\/p>\n
South Surrey resident and talk radio host Ivan Scott is calling on the federal government to formally declare dementia to be a national health emergency.<\/p>\n
Scott said the initiative is \u201cdeliberately non-political, non-ideological, and national in scope.<\/p>\n
\u201cDementia is not a partisan issue. It affects the entire Canadian family \u2014 across every region, culture, and community,\u201d Scott said, noting that more than 750,000 Canadians are afflicted with it and that number is expected to exceed 1.7 million within a generation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not a theoretical issue. It is already unfolding in communities across British Columbia and Canada \u2014 affecting families, caregivers, and local systems daily,\u201d he said. \u201cDementia is not simply a medical condition \u2013 it is a national failure in slow motion. It strips away dignity, independence, and independence, and identity. It breaks caregivers. It overwhelms systems. It empties savings and replaces them with stress and grief. And still, we treat it as background noise.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scott said he\u2019s sent a letter to all 335 MPs, including party leaders, seeking their support.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not a future problem,\u201d he wrote them. \u201cIt is in your riding. It is in everyone\u2019s riding. Right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
He called on them to establish a cross-party dementia task force and form an all-party coalition to address dementia immediately, saying there is \u201cno excuse for division\u201d and only Parliament can solve this problem.<\/p>\n
\u201cGive Canada something real,\u201d Scott urged the politicians. \u201cGive Canadians confidence that when it matters most, their Parliament can act. And give those living with dementia \u2013 and those who care for them \u2013 the dignity of knowing they have not been ignored. The opportunity is in front of you. Do not let it pass. You CAN do something about it. Please!\u201d<\/p>\n
Those interested in contacting Scott concerning this initiative can reach him at 778-229-5108 or at surreytalkradio@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey man calling on feds to declare dementia a national health emergency Published 2:30 pm Wednesday, April 1,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-576138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}