I'm just going by what he told me to my face. He even showed me all the empty bottles of pain medication going back months. You can choose to believe or not to believe, I have no reason to lie. Its a sad truth unfortunately. BTW this was back in approx. 2014/2015 I'd hate to see what its like now, 10 years later.
I'm not saying he didn’t suffer with pain or anything like that. I just don't believe he was denied simply because he was 85. He may believe it and therefore telling you, you believe him but I don't believe anyone said to him, "sorry bud - you're 85, you're deemed too old for this surgery by OHIP".
He could have had other medical issues, at the age of 85, that made it too dangerous to have surgery.
I have a condition and therefore it is too dangerous to do any cosmetic surgery. I don't qualify. No doctor will voluntarily operate on me and any doctor that would should not be a doctor. I'm only allowed necessary surgeries and even then, I have to have special consults, and approval of the whole team, as in hospital, surgical doctor, anaesthesiologist, etc.
So there could be, and in my opinion, most like is another reason he was denied. I don't believe it is simply because of age.