Same Day Life Insurance Almost everyone has a relative or friend who has suffered from a major, possibly fatal, illness.

It is a sad truth. Protect yourself and your family. The numbers, speak for themselves:Critical Illness Statistics

  • Of 10 Healthy male adults, 3 will have a critical illness before age 65
  • Of 10 healthy female adults, 2.7 will have a critical illness before age 65

Insure against Heart Attack

(From the Heart and Stroke Foundation)

  • 1 in 4 Canadians will contract some form of heart disease 75,000 Canadians suffer heart attacks each year
  • Heart disease costs the Canadian economy approximately $19 billion every year in medical services, hospitalization expenses, loss of income and loss of productivity
  • The rate of death among patients hospitalized for heart attacks has been decreased by half, from 16 per cent to 8 per cent
  • 1 in 2 heart attack victims are under the age of 65

Insure against Stroke

(From the Heart and Stroke Foundation)

  • 50,000 Canadians suffer a stroke each year
  • 75% survive the initial event
  • strokes are the leading cause of neurological disability
  • 1/3 of stroke victims are under the age of 65
  • 60% of stroke victims will be left with a disability

Insure against Cancer

(From the Canadian Cancer Society)

  • More than 130,000 Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer this year
  • over 60,000 people in Canada will die this year from the disease
  • 1 in 3 Canadians will develop cancer in their lifetime
  • 1 in 9 women will develop breast cancer
  • 1 in 3 women and 1 in 2.5 men will develop cancer in their lifetime.

Insure against Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

(From the the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario/Canada)

  • Bypass surgery is performed more on men than women by a ratio of nearly 4 to 1
  • There are approximately 11,000 bypass surgeries performed in Canada each year
  • The rate at which bypass surgery is performed on people age 65 and older has increased

Insure against Multiple Sclerosis

(From the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada)

  • More than 50,000 Canadians have Multiple Sclerosis
  • MS is the most common neurological disease among young Canadians
  • Canadians have one of the highest rates of MS in the world.
  • Women are twice as likely to develop MS as men

Insure against Parkinsons Disease

(From the Parkinson’s Foundation of Canada)

  • 30% of all Parkinson’s patients are under 50
  • 20% of all Parkinson’s patients are under 40
  • There are approximately 80,000 – 100,000 Canadians suffering from Parkinson’s

Insure against Paralysis

(From the National Spinal Cord Injury Association of Canada)

  • There is an estimated 900 Canadians who sustain a spinal cord injury each year
  • More than 30,000 Canadians suffer from paralysis of 2 or more limbs
  • Most persons who suffer spinal cord injury are between 16 and 30 years of age
  • The most common causes of spinal cord injury are car collisions and falls

Insure against Alzheimers Disease

(From the Canadian Alzheimer Society)

  • Alzheimer Disease is the fourth leading cause of death in Canada
  • Every year approximately 10,000 Canadians die from Alzheimer’s
  • Approximately 1 in 100 Canadians suffer from Alzheimer’s disease
  • There are approximately 22,000 people in Metro Toronto with Alzheimer’s
  • The disease occurs in 8% of the general population over 60

Insure against Kidney Failure

(From the Kidney Foundation of Canada)

  • Kidney disease ranks sixth among diseases causing death in Canada
  • Each day an average of 8 Canadians learn that their kidneys have failed
  • Approximately 2000 Canadians are on a waiting list for kidney transplant
  • 351 kidney transplants were performed in Ontario in 1995
  • 1 in 10 will develop kidney stones at some point in their lives

Insure against Deafness

(From the Canadian Hearing Society)

  • 280,000 Canadians are deaf
  • 1,120,000 Canadians are hard of hearing
  • 1,400,000 do not use amplification
  • There are more than 2,800,000 Canadians with hearing loss

Insure against Occupational HIV

(From the Canadian Aids Society)

  • Approximately 4.4 million health care workers suffer 800,000 needle sticks and other injuries from sharp objects annually
  • An estimated 16,000 of these objects are contaminated with HIV