If you’re seeing your family doctor to treat a rash, would you mention you recently lost your job? Is your doctor likely to ask? Is it even relevant? The more work that’s done in Canada to reduce health inequalities, the more we know that social determinants of health – including income security – have an important influence on outcomes. Yet, care providers don’t have a standardized way to collect this type of data and treat their patients accordingly.
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Sherbourne Health, a Canadian leader in proactive care for underserved communities, has recently expanded its Health Bus program to serve individuals experiencing homelessness or who are under-housed in downtown Toronto’s Moss Park neighbourhood.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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