The Caring@Home blog welcomes this guest post by Janet Parks, Client Services Director for the Mississauga Halton Community Care Access Centre. According to the Mississauga Halton Community Care Access Centre (CCAC), Rapid Response Nurses are helping to bridge the gap between hospital and home. For some of our frail, elderly citizens, leaving hospital often means [...]
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Roses are red Violets are blue Sugar is sweet And so are you! This poem is often shared on Mother’s Day. I still have my handmade Mother’s Day cards from my girls, and my mom still has the ones I made for her. Every year, the second Sunday of May is our opportunity to say [...]
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Last year Bayshore hiked across the country for the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA), hitting the milestone of $1 million raised over the past seven years. We’re at it again. For the eighth consecutive year, Bayshore offices coast-to-coast will be lacing up and walking on Sunday May 5 to raise money for local palliative [...]
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I think we need to ask ourselves if the changes brought on by the demands of the 21st century are contributing to the changing face of health care. Shorter hospital stays, greater use of outpatient treatment, less one-on-one with your health-care practitioner – not necessarily all bad, but different. The growing population of older Canadians [...]
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After meeting and talking with Karen Pivnick, founder of TopCat Relocation & Transition Solutions, I was compelled to write this blog on hoarding – a misunderstood condition that affects so many seniors today. According to Karen, hoarding is the collection of an excessive amount of things that the individual might consider to be quite important [...]
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