How to communicate effectively with the nursing home staff.
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Make the nursing home staff your care partner.
Category: Tales from Home
Do you know what self-directed care is?
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“In contrast to conventional home care programs in which care is managed and delivered by professionals or agencies on behalf of the client, in self managed programs the client takes a more active and central role both in defining needs and in determining how those needs should be met,”
Canada’s first ‘dementia village’ to open next year.
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The Village will be home to 78 people with dementia. Their care will be provided by 72 specially trained staff.
Advocate for seniors and provide support during a hospital stay.
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Seniors need extra support during a hospital stay.
The Rights of Residents in Retirement Homes and Long-Term Care Homes.
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Do you have a loved one currently or planning to move into a LTC or a retirement home in Ontario? If so, you need to read this article.
Financial Exploitation: When Taking Money Amounts to Elder Abuse.
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Perpetrator is typically a family member or caregiver.
Ontario subsidy for seniors’ homes falls short.
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What will long-term care homes be like when the Boomers need them?
‘I was in shock’: Police probe Ottawa nursing home after elderly woman found with maggots in wound
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How’s the quality of care in Canadian long-term-care facilities?
Former Woodstock, Ont., nurse facing 8 murder charges in deaths of elderly clients.
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Police have charged Wettlaufer with murder alleging she killed eight nursing home residents.
Ontario extends paramedic house-call program for seniors
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Pilot project employing paramedics to make health-care visits helped reduce 911 calls and emergency room visits.
