When the telephone rings, we expect to hear our friends or family on the other end. But on occasion, it’s a telemarketer trying to push some kind of product onto us. We need to be more telemarketer savvy and recognize when a situation doesn’t feel right. The other week I attended a community health fair [...]
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Our new Ontario government leadership has begun to set priorities in health care – thinking both inside and outside the box by focusing on the sometimes forgotten family caregiver. Helping families care for their sick loved ones was put on the back burner last fall when former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty resigned and his prorogation [...]
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Caring@Home blog welcomes this guest post by Angela Kryhul, business editor, copywriter and principal of Kryhul Media Group. Can a hospital’s architectural and interior design, and its proximity to communities and natural surroundings, be a catalyst to patient recovery and wellness? The administrators at Bridgepoint Health believe so and they’ve integrated this thinking into the [...]
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I’m going to start this blog with a question: If you could write a letter to your younger self, what would it say? Here’s mine: Dear young Jackie, After several years of experience, this is what I’ve learned that you would benefit from knowing now. Save, save, save! Start your financial plan as soon as [...]
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I figured I would pull things into reverse for a moment and go back to the beginning – with the family at the core, in their home. Everything used to revolve around the home, even care. We don’t have to think too far back to a time when the majority of health care was delivered [...]
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