Stopping Elder Abuse

Caregiving Matters is partnering with The 50+ Festival this year and hosting a full day of elder abuse awareness presentations. Join us in preventing elder abuse!

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Experience 12 Minutes In Alzheimer’s Dementia

Take a look at this video, do you think it represents Dementia correctly?

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Seniors and social media: more than keeping up with the grandkids

CBC: Online communication can have health benefits for older Canadians

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Role Reversal

As our parents age, many of us find ourselves in the difficult position of parenting our parents, and the challenge is to do so while always respecting their dignity, remaining sensitive to their abilities and understanding their need for control

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Caregiver Burn Out: Caring and Not Collapsing

Caroline Tapp-McDougall, Editor, Chair of Canada Cares discusses Caregiver Burnout – what it is, how to recognize it, and how to cope.

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For seniors, losing driver’s licence like having ‘arm cut off’

CBC: Next to young male drivers, people aged 70 or older have highest accident rate

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Feeling Used and Abused

What would she do if you did not live close by? It would be all on her shoulders to manage won’t it?

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When men care

How many male caregivers do you know? Are they husbands, sons, extended family or friends? Are they caregivers to the elderly or to those with cancer, multiple sclerosis, dementia or AIDS?

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End of Life Decisions: What Do Lawyers Owe Their Clients?

In an era of near daily stunning advances in medicine, what constitutes the “heroic measures” so many people say they do not want?

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“I’ve got my walker…now what?”

With the thought and effort that goes into selecting a piece of equipment, it is shocking to learn that approximately 30 per cent of prescribed devices are abandoned by users.

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