What is Looking Ahead?
Smartly organize your affairs into 3 main categories: Incapacitation, Death and Legacy.
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.
Read Ontario extends paramedic house-call program for seniors
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.
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.
Read We need a support strategy for seniors – regardless of location
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.
Read Doctors urge Ottawa to provide more clarity on assisted dying law
Sudbury Accent: An unspeakable horror
Author seeking caregiving stories.
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.
Read Putting my life on hold to live with my parents lost to Alzheimer’s
8 tips for new family caregivers
It’s hard to know where to begin caring for someone, and caregiving is typically not a role anyone has training for!
Grieving for nine years. Really?
We all deal with grief in our own ways and on our own time schedules.
The last things a caregiver for a loved one needs to hear – and the first
When speaking to caregivers, conversations can be especially fraught.
Read The last things a caregiver for a loved one needs to hear – and the first