Time to Break the Silos: Transforming Ontario's Healthcare Future At the Home Care Ontario Symposium in late November, Matthew Anderson, CEO of Ontario Health, articulated a profound challenge facing our healthcare system. "We know that funding for preventative...
Motivations
Making Comprehensive Healthcare at Home a Reality
My journey toward making a meaningful change in Canadian healthcare begins in a very different world—technology. For 18 years, I lived in Singapore, helping to run the Asia-Pacific operations of American software companies. It was a fast-paced and exciting career that...
Everyday Heroes:
Meet The Extra-Ordinary Care Providers of Stay At Home Nursing
The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things. --Hans Christian Andersen Ordinary things: cosy clean bedding on a windy winter night; a quiet conversation over afternoon tea; the springtime glow of your rose...
Managing and Preventing Falls
I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing. ~ Martha Graham Gravity, goes a familiar one-liner, is always bringing me down, a statement that brings a much-needed moment of levity for those of us with mobility issues who are most intimately...
Winter is Here!
Home Care Support Helps Weather the Season
Comprehensive Winter Home Care Services in Ontario The change of seasons can be one of life’s great joys. But it can also offer a greater set of challenges for our loved ones ageing in place or recovering from a medical issue while at home. With a...
Choosing the right option: Home Care vs Long-Term Care
What and When is the Best Fit?
We all face the inevitable cycle of life. But within this, for ourselves, for our loved ones, we need to make informed decisions around our lifestyle and quality of life. How and where we age gracefully is a major decision. Recovery...
Our Healthcare:
It’s About People, But It’s Also About Numbers
In the healthcare industry, no one joins without a deep sense of caring and a genuine desire to help others. The challenges of long hours, low wages, and both emotional and physical stress quickly weed out those not committed to making a real difference for their...
Are We Listening?
In today's noisy, contentious world, there's a lot of concern about Canada's healthcare system. Not surprising given we are the top spender on healthcare among the 38 OECD countries but rank 31st in healthcare outcomes. Policymakers and our fragmented healthcare...
Quis Curat Dantium Curam? Who Cares for the Carers?
Tomorrow is today, and we are facing the coming silver tsunami with a fractured system designed in the 1950’s that has been patched with duct tape for the past 70 years. There is only one solution to this problem – We must build and integrate Comprehensive Healthcare at Home into our healthcare supply-chain.
Our Healthcare is At a Crossroads
What Direction Should We Take? “We are all in this together”... could not be a more appropriate phrase for our healthcare situation. Whether it is our partner, our parents, our child, or ourselves, we will eventually be faced with ageing, or a chronic condition,...