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'Housing not in place' for seniors with complex needs, blasts B.C. advocate after blind 86-year-old woman sent to DTES in a taxi

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Gwendolyn Deraspe , 86 , was discharged from a Maple Ridge hospital and sent to a Downtown Eastside women's shelter.

Senior's advocate Dan Levitt says this was not an isolated case.

He says there were 13,000 seniors on a waiting list for subsidized housing as of March and about 40 per cent had been waiting for more than two years .

B.C. Health Minister Josie Osborne says the case is under review.

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