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By: Audrey Miller MSW, RSW, CCRC, CCLCP Solutions Magazine Summer 2007 One in four working Canadians experiences high levels of caregiver strain. Four types of caregiver strain resulting from stress have been defined: emotional…
Read article Balancing Work and Care↗OANHSS News Winter 2007 “Caregiving isn’t like retirement planning,” says Bob Spence, owner of an eldercare consulting service in Toronto. “It’s not something that people think about until they absolutely need to.” In fact most family…
Read article The Caregiving Journey, part two of a series↗By: Audrey Miller MSW, RSW, CCRC, CCLCP Solutions Magazine Winter 2007 Diabetes is a disease that affects more than two million people in Canada today, and with the aging population and rising obesity rates, this number is only expected…
Read article When Your Loved One Has Diabetes↗By: Audrey Miller MSW, RSW, CCRC, CCLCP Solutions Magazine Spring 2006 Caregiving encompasses many activities, which typically include everything from providing personal care like dressing and bathing to paying bills or doing chores. Most…
Read article Nothing Left to Give? Caregivers and Burnout↗By: Audrey Miller MSW, RSW, CCRC, CCLCP Help’s Here Spring 2006 Driver safety is everybody’s concern. On a per-person basis, mature drivers have less than the average number of collisions, but on a per kilometer basis, the over-70 age…
Read article To Drive or Not to Drive? The Question We Should All Be Asking↗