Continuing Care

CALGARY – The HealthTech Home project, a new initiative from The Brenda Strafford Foundation (BSF), Health Cities and Best Buy Canada, aims to address pressure on health systems by integrating and validating consumer technology and innovative health solutions in a residential setting. Read More

WINNIPEG – A new, home-like space at Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg may lead to more Canadians living independently at home for longer. Aptly named, the Smart Suite was built by the University of Manitoba College of Rehabilitation Sciences and officially opened for use earlier this month. Read More

CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI – An innovative Canadian technology, intended to reduce the risk of falls, is now available locally through a commercialization project being conducted at Health PEI with support from the Coordinated Accessible National (CAN) Health Network. The program uses technology developed by PEI based Stepscan Technologies to identify challenges in a person’s walking or balance function. Read More

TORONTO – AGE-WELL and the Canadian College of Health Leaders have teamed up to produce a special themed issue of the journal Healthcare Management Forum focused on aging, technology and health in a post-COVID world. The September issue, available now, features 10 articles that share important evidence of lessons learned from COVID-19 and how they can be operationalized to benefit older adults. Read More

TORONTO – The Ontario Brain Institute (OBI) will invest a total of $587,000 in four community-led organizations through its Growing Expertise in Evaluation and Knowledge Translation (GEEK) program. Launched in 2019, the GEEK program provides funding, evaluation expertise, and support to community-led programs and services for people living with brain disorders. Read More

CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI – Health PEI is introducing a new digital assessment tool for older Islanders that will improve the way people are assessed for care needs as they age. The tool, called interRAI-HC, uses a digital platform that replaces the former paper-based system that has been in use on PEI for many years. Read More

TORONTO – The Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI), led by Baycrest, has launched Leap, its virtual innovation community for older adults and caregivers. Leap connects innovators developing solutions (i.e., products, programs, services) with their intended end users to understand users’ lived experiences, needs, and preferences. Read More

HALIFAX – Students from Dalhousie University and the University of New Brunswick are helping to develop and refine technology that enhances the ability to provide evidence-based care solutions for seniors in long-term care. Their work is part of an initiative by Shannex, a Halifax-based provider of home care, retirement living, assisted living, memory care and long-term care services in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Ontario. Read More

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. – Pixalere Healthcare, a pioneer in the clinical wound management and the community EMR space, has announced the launch of their new clinically-focused EMR application, HERO – Homecare Electronic Record Outcomes. HERO was created by clinicians for clinicians with the objective to assist home care providers in optimizing the health outcomes of their patients in the community. Read More