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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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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Can eating nuts help your heart? What is it about the crack of a walnut that has so many people adding it to their balanced diet? What is so appealing, and are nuts actually good for your heart health? A healthy diet should include nuts, and the type of nut isn’t that important. While some [...]
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