The Caring@Home blog welcomes The Alzheimer Society Peel guest blog by BRANDI MORSON AND IZABELA SITNIK Navigating the health care system can be challenging and discouraging, especially when seeking exceptional care for a loved one. Many people, including health care professionals, realize the benefits community service agencies can bring including bridging the health care gaps. [...]
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The average Canadian’s life expectancy is almost 81 years and the fastest growing segment of our population is people over 65. So what’s stopping us from living to 100? Well, for many people it’s a nasty and debilitating malady known as dementia. It’s becoming the 800-pound elephant in a room full of powerless seniors. Many [...]
READ MORE »January is Alzheimer Awareness Month. We know that Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, but what we may not know is that it’s the degeneration of our healthy brain tissue that causes a steady decline in our mental and social abilities. Dementia affects one in thirteen Canadians over 65 and one in [...]
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