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Part of an 8 part series on Navigating the Health Care System by Alzlive.com Before Barbara Larkin moved her 80-something mom into an assisted living facility in Maple Ridge, B.C., she would sit in her car outside her mother’s apartment…
Read article When Your Care Is Not Enough↗Originally published at allaboutestates.ca on May 5, 2015 Son: Mom, turn a light on, it’s getting dark outside. Mom: It’s ok, I’ll just sit here in the dark. Son: Mom, it’s cold and raining outside. I will call a taxi for you. Mom: It’s…
Read article Informed Risk and Today is Your Rainy Day↗Originally posted at allaboutestates.ca on April 16, 2015: Today is National Advance Care Planning Day. If this blog is the only place you are hearing about Advance Care Planning today, then please share it, because it likely means you…
Read article Today is National Advance Care Planning Day- so Speak UP↗The April 10, 2015 Globe and Mail had two interesting sections that seemed to me to be juxtaposed. I feel they should be integrated so hence this blog. One section was on Canada’s Best Workplaces. This was a sponsored content piece…
Read article Canada’s Best Workplaces- Does it include employed carers?↗In my daily reading of the obits, I read about a former client of mine- who passed away at age 100. I had the pleasure of working with him when he was 99. He had been discharged home from the hospital after recovering from the flu. He…
Read article Do you really want to live to be 100?↗