Viewing articles in the ‘Continuing Care’ topic.
October 2, 2014
Provincial Long Term Care (PLTC) Homes, a privately owned group of five nursing homes in southern Ontario, has announced the rollout of a new app that allows family members and close friends of its residents to tap into the electronic charting system to keep track of how their loved ones are faring. Read More
August 6, 2014
TORONTO – The Ontario Long Term Care Association (OLTCA) has introduced a Corporate Alliance Partnership (CAP) to provide companies with greater opportunities to partner with OLTCA throughout the year and to participate in events with member homes. Read More
July 7, 2014
Participants from seventeen countries logged into the International Psychogeriatric Association’s (IPA) first international webinar in April to hear experts from Baycrest Health Sciences discuss best practices for managing aggression and agitation in older adults with dementia. Read More
June 18, 2014
MARKHAM, Ont. – What good is a suggestion box if most of your 7,000 employees never come to the office and are spread across the country? Saint Elizabeth Health Care is the first Canadian healthcare organization to adopt SoapBox, a social media platform that allows its employees – most of whom are mobile workers – to suggest, discuss and vote on ideas to improve the services they deliver. Read More
June 16, 2014
CALGARY – A collaborative research project is using GPS technology to locate Albertans with cognitive impairment who have wandered or are lost. The Locator Device Project is currently under way in Calgary and Grande Prairie. Read More
June 4, 2014
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – PointClickCare has announced its enhanced senior care platform to help address the “Acuity Conundrum,” a term that highlights the challenges facing assisted-living providers supporting an increasing number of residents requiring more complex care. Read More
April 30, 2014
Guided by the belief that families are essential partners in their children’s care, the Children’s Treatment Network (CTN) of Simcoe York, located in southern Ontario, and KidsAbility in Waterloo Region and Guelph-Wellington, are launching exciting family portals with the assistance of Waterloo-based GoldCare. Read More
March 19, 2014
TORONTO - B Sharp Technologies, a provider of specialty documentation and complex case management solutions for organizations across the health, social services, and community care ecosystem, is pleased to announce that Shannex, a prominent Home Care, Retirement Living and Long-Term Care services organization in the Maritimes, will be deploying the B Care Senior’s Services Solution to all of its sites across Nova Scotia and New Brunswick after a successful pilot program. Read More
March 6, 2014
At some point last fall Felister Mburu understood that her typical workday as a PSW with VHA Home Healthcare, in Toronto, would change dramatically. Mburu works in the East York region, which was part of a pilot project that saw the company deploy GoldCare MobilityPlus on 20 BlackBerry 10 devices. Read More
March 6, 2014
“Let me know if there is anything I can do.” Delivering the news of a devastating diagnosis to friends and family usually elicits that heartfelt response, along with the assumption there is little they really can do. Caring for a family member facing a serious illness or a lifelong disability can be daunting and isolating. Vancouver-based Tyze, which has a cloud-based personal healthcare networking platform that enables families to build personal communities of care, is on a mission to change that. Read More