Ageing Gracefully
Reducing the Risk of Falls

Reducing the Risk of Falls

Reducing the Risk of Falls: What Can We Do?  In Canada, older adults living in the community face a wide range of factors that increase their chance of falling. A previous history of falls, living with a chronic condition or illness, sensory or mobility...

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Natasha Paddock: Striving for Joy 

Natasha Paddock: Striving for Joy 

I have worked at SAHN for two years. I know most people can’t truthfully say this, but I absolutely can: I love my job 100%. Management always has my back; they prioritize my safety and can always be counted on to provide support and constructive feedback when needed....

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Making The Homecare Decision

Making The Homecare Decision

It’s difficult, sometimes, to know when the moment has come to ask for outside help.  For many this future planning is accompanied by the difficult realization that a loved one is struggling with activities of day-to-day life. The challenges that accompany...

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Ontario Health Integrations

Ontario Health Integrations

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...

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Motivations Making Comprehensive Healthcare at Home a Reality

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...

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Managing and Preventing Falls

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...

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Medical Recovery
Medical Recovery