Continuing Care

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

MONTREAL – Equinoxe Lifecare, the leading private homecare service provider in Quebec, is pleased to announce the appointment of Jeremy Altman (pictured), a seasoned fintech executive, as chief executive officer to lead Equinoxe into its next stage of growth since the divestment of its EQ Care telehealth division to Telus Health in December 2020. Read More

HALIFAX – Sobeys, Lawtons Drugs and Nova Scotia Health are partnering on an innovative collaborative care model that will provide Nova Scotians in the New Glasgow and Truro areas with another option for timely, routine, non-urgent health concerns. Known as Lawtons Drugs Pharmacist Walk-in Clinic+, pharmacists and a nurse practitioner will provide primary care at walk-in clinics above Sobeys owned Lawtons Drug pharmacies through this unique partnership. Read More