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Archive for the ‘Care Giving Strategies’ Category
Monday, January 11th, 2010
Tips for Caregivers
Emotionally, caring for an elderly parent who always cared for you can be a disconcerting role reversal, and without addressing these new emotions, caregivers eventually feel frazzled, overwhelmed, and unable to deal with all the new changes. But with proper preparation, a lot of the stress that comes from taking on the role of primary caregiver for an elderly relative can be avoided.
One of the hardest things for caregivers is (more…)
Tags: aging trends, Caregiver Support Toronto, caregiving, caregiving strategies, Elder Care, long term care, long term care Toronto, long term care Toronto Ontario
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
Eldercare and the Workplace: How to Strike a Balance
Canadian employers are understandably concerned about the effects that elder care has on the workforce. In Canada, over 70% of caregivers to the elderly also hold down a job. Many of these caregivers also have a family of their own, with children still living at home.
The stress is too much for some to handle; more than a fifth of Canadians caring for an elderly relative have reported (more…)
Tags: aging trends, Caregiver Support Toronto, caregiving, Elder Care, long term care, planning for long term care
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
How to Plan for the Future
Many of us find it difficult to look down the road to when we may require help to live as independently as possible. The longer we delay developing a plan the less likely we will achieve best possible plan. Long term care is a reality in everyone’s life as we age. It means we need to have help on a daily basis, but often where that help comes from, who pays for it and who arranges it is taken for granted.
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Tags: aging trends, caregiving strategies, Elder Care
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Aging at Home in Ontario
Because the number of seniors in Ontario will more than double in the next sixteen years, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care is developing what they call “Ontario’s Aging at Home Strategy”. Announced in 2007, the strategy calls for an increase in home care and community support services to allow elderly residents of Ontario to age comfortably at home, rather than moving into a long term care home.
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Tags: aging trends, Elder Care, long term care, long term care Toronto, long term care Toronto Ontario
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Private Health Care in Ontario
The privatization of health care in Ontario is here, whether we like it or not. As Dr. Albert Schumacher, the former president of the Canadian Medical Association put it, “The situation we are seeing now are more services around not being funded publicly but people having to pay for them, or their insurance companies. We have a sort of passive privatization” (Source: CBC.ca). In Ontario, when Liberals won in 2003, they promised to shut down the provinces growing number of private clinics, but in 2006 when Conservatives won federally, that promise stalled. It seems that in Ontario, as in other provinces throughout Canada, the growth of private health care is inevitable.
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Tags: aging trends, caregiving, Elder Care, H1N1, long term care
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Long Term Care Insurance — Ontario
According to Christina Bisanz, the CEO of Ontario Long-Term Care Association, the Ontario Ministry of Health has no particular intention to increase the number of new beds in Ontario’s long term care facilities. This is despite the fact that there is already a long wait list of people — 25,000 in Ontario alone, according to Bisanz — who are waiting for placement into a long term care facility. These wait lists are only getting longer as Canada’s population ages and more people need acute long term care.
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Tags: aging trends, long term care, Long Term Care Insurance, long term care Toronto Ontario
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
 Being Prepared for Long Term Care in Toronto, Ontario and Surrounding Areas
One of the best things that baby boomers in their late fifties and early sixties can do is plan for their own long term care while they still can. Anyone who has cared for their own seventy-something, eight-something, or ninety-something parents can testify to the fact that as Canadians live longer, their long term care needs also increase.
Some of the questions baby boomers planning for their twilight years should ask themselves include: (more…)
Tags: aging trends, caregiving, Elder Care, elder care Toronto, long term care Toronto, planning for long term care
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Caregiver Support Toronto, Ontario
Ontario’s life expectancy at the moment is 75 – but it’s on the rise. According to most estimates, the number of Ontario citizens who will be 85 or older will more than double by 2020. While on the one hand it is wonderful that so many Ontario residents are living longer, the rising number of older Canadians also represents a toll on families and health care systems. After all, who is it who will be caring for all these elderly Ontario residents? In many cases, it’s the Sandwich Generation.
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
What if You Can’t Afford Private Care?
Around January 2008, senior Christina Woodkey of Vancouver found that the pain in her legs was severe enough to prevent her from doing the things she likes to do, such as ski. The leg pain wasn’t life-threatening, but it made her day-to-day life uncomfortable and challenging. Her doctor told her she’d have to see a hip specialist, and that would take about a year.
One year later, the hip specialist told her she would have to see a back specialist. How long would seeing a back specialist take? Another nine months. She asked when she might expect to get the surgery she needed to solve the problem of the debilitating pain. The answer: (more…)
Tags: aging trends, care costs British Columbia, caregiving strategies, Elder Care, long term care
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