Reading Time: 3 minutes Governments must begin to accept their responsibility to improve caregivers access to support services and patient care resources
Tag: Family
Siblings who become caretakers often lack adequate support
Reading Time: 3 minutes Individuals with developmental disabilities live longer than ever and that means the responsibility for care is shifting to siblings
The real costs of informal caregiving in Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes National strategy needed for unpaid caregivers in the workplace
Families are key members of patients’ hospital care teams
Reading Time: 4 minutes Wards are staffed based on caring for a sick but otherwise self-sufficient patient population. The reality is patients need family caregivers in the hospital
Dancing in the dark – in the midst of a hurricane
Reading Time: 3 minutes In Atlantic Canada, the moment you think you have everything nailed down, a Category 2 storm decides to pop in
Low-income Canadian families squeezed from both ends
Reading Time: 3 minutes When a dollar earned triggers higher taxes and simultaneously reduces benefits, what’s left to spend or save?
Canada a warmth of caring in the frozen north
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadians tend to see caring as just the stuff of everyday life – ordinary people doing what comes naturally
You can – and must – get over the shame of business failure
Reading Time: 4 minutes Sharing our struggles with staff and family, and explaining the financial situation to suppliers may be humbling, but it relieves the weight of our shame
Why Canada needs a plan to address dementia and Alzheimer’s
Reading Time: 3 minutes There is no magic bullet, but a national action plan can improve care and quality of life
Coping with the family burdens related to caregiving
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our Family Ties column examines the issues of caregiving in Canadian society, and what we can do to alleviate some of the burden