When Someone You Know Has Dementia

Come to this free Dementia presentation being held at the Toronto Reference Library.

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My sister-in-law is useless.

Whose job is it to care for an aging parent?

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Caring for the Caregiver.

4 Tips to Ensure That You Fuel Your Caring Nature From a Full Heart and Not Fumes.

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What is Looking Ahead?

Smartly organize your affairs into 3 main categories: Incapacitation, Death and Legacy.

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Ontario extends paramedic house-call program for seniors

Pilot project employing paramedics to make health-care visits helped reduce 911 calls and emergency room visits.

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The difficult conversations

Letting your family know about your estate planning can be hard, but here are some tips to help you broach the subject with your family members.

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We need a support strategy for seniors – regardless of location

With limited home-care services available and no room at the long-term-care facility, many end up, by default, in hospital.

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Doctors urge Ottawa to provide more clarity on assisted dying law

Canada’s doctors are pleading with the federal government to put specific guidelines in its medically assisted dying law regarding patients who want to end their lives because of psychological suffering.

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Sudbury Accent: An unspeakable horror

Author seeking caregiving stories.

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Putting my life on hold to live with my parents lost to Alzheimer’s

More than anything, the grief or loss I feel is in the form of loneliness.

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