Viewing articles in the ‘Continuing Care’ topic.
March 1, 2019
The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada has entered Phase 2 of a free program called Activate – a 3-year preventive program that aims to help 7,000 Canadians with pre-hypertension to lower their risk through healthy eating, smoking cessation, stress management, and regular exercise. Read More
January 31, 2019
Fitness video games – think Wii Fit or Dance Dance Revolution – are commonly associated with adolescents. These exercise programs, also called exergames, use virtual reality software to track body movements, allowing a user to interact with the activity presented on a TV screen. Read More
January 23, 2019
HALIFAX – The Province of Nova Scotia has signed a five-year agreement, with options to extend for five additional years, to license VitalHub’s TREAT client management software to support the Department of Community Services (DCS) transformation.
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December 5, 2018
QUEBEC CITY – Marie Rinfret (pictured), Quebec’s ombudsman, has issued a scathing report about the province’s public nursing homes, characterizing the care given in these centres as “tantamount to mistreatment” and “deficient and flawed.”
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November 7, 2018
TORONTO – NexJ Health Inc., a provider of patient-facing population health management solutions, has announced its participation in the UK’s “Safe and Connected” program. Safe and Connected supports lonely older people who live at home in the local community by having postal workers check on them.
The new program is based on the successful Jersey-based project Call & Check.
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October 29, 2018
Smart homes for seniors? The two make an unlikely match – but one project funded by the Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI), powered by Baycrest Health Sciences, is evaluating how living in a smart home could improve quality of life for older adults with early-stage dementia. Read More
October 3, 2018
TORONTO – The Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI), led by Baycrest, has announced support for the development and validation testing of 31 new innovations in aging and brain healthcare.
A total of $1.4 M in support has been leveraged through CABHI’s Spark program, which aims at fostering innovations from point-of-care workers who have grassroots ideas they want to develop into real-world applications for the aging population.
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October 3, 2018
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands – Royal Philips, a global leader in healthcare technology, announced that it has acquired Vancouver-based Blue Willow Systems, a developer of a next-generation, cloud-based senior living community resident safety platform.
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September 18, 2018
TORONTO – The AGE-WELL National Impact Challenge – which aims to identify new, technology-based solutions to improve the quality of life of older Canadians – triggered a flood of submissions. And after a round of public voting, AGE-WELL is pleased to announce eight finalists that will compete for over $100,000 in cash and in-kind prizes at a live pitch event in Vancouver.
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August 22, 2018
VANCOUVER – Patients registered in the BC Women’s Hospital Complex Chronic Diseases Program are now able to receive consults with clinicians from the comfort of their homes using virtual visits.
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