Durk de Jong checks his wife Janny’s blood pressure in their home in southwest Calgary. (Elise Stolte/CBC)
Many frail, home-bound seniors are getting access to doctors without leaving their living room for the first time in Calgary, as Edmonton doctors seek to expand their own, similar program.
The house calls are a throwback to another era — “slow medicine,” as one doctor called it — and families says it makes a big difference.
“It’s meant the world for me,” said Durk de Jong, whose 86-year-old wife, Janny de Jong, has a doctor visit her at home regularly.
“That we don’t have to go to the doctor’s
