Viewing articles in the ‘Continuing Care’ topic.
July 2, 2019
As Canadian life expectancy rises, so does the chance that older adults will struggle with isolation – a risk factor for ill health. It’s a problem that innovator Charles de Vilmorin knows well. For years he watched his grandmother, who lived with Alzheimer’s, spend her days alone in her nursing home room, bored and lonely. Read More
June 12, 2019
TORONTO – Mavencare, a home-care technology company, has announced a partnership with The Salvation Army Toronto Grace Health Centre, a 119-bed hospital located in the heart of downtown Toronto. With a focus on managing patients with multiple medical issues requiring complex care, Toronto Grace has recognized the benefit of Mavencare’s technology-enabled home service to promote better communication and prevent avoidable hospital readmissions during the post-acute transition interval.
Read More
May 6, 2019
TORONTO – CBI Health Group, Canada’s largest community-based healthcare services network, is partnering with AlayaCare, an end-to-end market-leading technology platform, for its Home Health operational platform.
Read More
April 24, 2019
TORONTO – The Hospital for Sick Children has announced the closure of the Motherisk Helplines. The decision follows years of declining grant funding leading to staff reductions, as well as unsuccessful efforts to secure an alternative host for the program.
Read More
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.
Read More
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.”
Read More
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.
Read More
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