Seniors care in B.C.: A primer on The System

As parents and grandparents age and require more care, many families in B.C. are going to face The System.
Providing a continuum of care to seniors is necessarily a large and Byzantine endeavour, one that serves many people well and a few people not so well.
To help people avoid falling into the latter category, here is a primer on care options and some resources to navigate the system.
This field is complicated, a situation made worse by its reliance on medical and bureaucratic jargon. Sorry ab