Immigration policy does not match pension eligibility policy, geared to income housing policy, health care eligibility policy, welfare policy, and other areas of policy. Shelters and services are full or closing due to cutbacks in funding. Need an address to receive welfare, but this does not always match the situations of seniors. There are qualified family doctors who speak many of the languages of the seniors although this is by no means always the case but not always close to where they live. Specialists and personnel in emergency departments do not typically speak any language other than English.
Translation is sometimes available, but the patients often have to wait many hours for a translator.
Thus, patients who do not speak English feel they get poor service , and that there is discrimination . Some seniors are distrustful of doctors, and even of western medicine.