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
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.
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?
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?
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.
Gay seniors struggling to find ‘safe’ retirement housing
‘In the three years I’ve been here, I’ve been more open than I ever was in my life.’—Alf Roberts, Fudger House resident
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DEMAND FOR HOME CARE IN CANADA EXCEEDING RESOURCES
In 2011, 1.4 million Canadians received home care, a 55 percent increase from 2008.