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Generally speaking, the proportion of people who said they had problems accessing health services fell with age in 2003. More specifically, around 13% of people between the ages of 25 and 54 said they had problems accessing health services. By contrast, less than 6% of people 75 years and up had the same problem. The graph also shows the differences between men and women. In the 25 to 54 age group, the proportion of women who declared having problems accessing health services was greater than the proportion of men (15% vs. 11%). However, in all the other age groups, the differences were slight.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey, 2003.