How to Use Technology to Make Aging at Home Easier
With Telehomecare, seniors can live at home longer and their caregivers can provide better care, and do so with peace of mind.
Home care support = no bath for over a month
‘Everybody will have a story about a parent, an aunt, a sibling, who the system is failing. It’s inevitable, unless something changes.’
– University of British Columbia researcher Joanie Sims-Gould
Ontario subsidy for seniors’ homes falls short.
What will long-term care homes be like when the Boomers need them?
Former Woodstock, Ont., nurse facing 8 murder charges in deaths of elderly clients.
Police have charged Wettlaufer with murder alleging she killed eight nursing home residents.
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Legends, myths and nursing homes
Myths, legends or facts? What exactly do you know about nursing homes for your family members? Test your knowledge and see…
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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No place like home? Investigating Ontario’s home-care shortcomings
It seems simple: keep patients at home when you can. Individuals prefer it, and it costs governments less. But home care is an underfunded, complicated system faltering in the face of skyrocketing demand.
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Pilot project to give cash to Ontario patients for ‘self-directed’ home care.
Will this new pilot eventually offer more choices to patients as they heal or age at home?
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How We Spend Our Health Care Dollars As We Age.
Whether in Canada or the USA, care costs are high, as we age.
When does a bath become a necessity?
How many times a week should a nursing home patient get a bath?