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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: Malcolm Ritter Canadian Press January 24, 2007 NEW YORK (AP) – A huge international study has identified a gene that apparently can raise the risk of developing the most common form of Alzheimer’s disease, a discovery that may help…
Read article Study links gene to risk of Alzheimer’s disease, may help in finding treatments↗By: Oliver Moore The Globe and Mail January 12, 2007 TORONTO — Knowledge of more than one language has been linked by Canadian researchers to a significant delay in the onset of dementia symptoms. Fluency in two or more languages may be…
Read article Speaking two tongues helps lick dementia, study finds↗National Advisory Council on Agining December 17, 2006 The National Advisory Council on Aging reports that the health and quality of life of Canadian seniors is quite satisfactory and Elder Caring Inc. notes that the overall grade for…
Read article Seniors in Canada, 2006 Report Card↗