Mural blooms for seniors’ residence in Edmonton
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Newly unveiled artwork celebrates intergenerational bonds between residents and their community
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Tag: Senior care
Half of Canadians don’t even know what palliative care is
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Knowledge gap about advance care planning led U of A researcher to investigate how to engage and educate people
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Wastewater from care homes could be COVID-19 early warning system
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Wastewater samples from manholes near long-term care facilities being tested to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2
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Covid-19 pokes the final hole in leaky long-term care boat
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We cannot blame COVID-19 alone for the current LTC crisis, writes Shawn Whatley
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What happens when a hospice rejects medical assistance in dying?
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‘This is about the B.C. government destroying a sanctuary for dying patients who want the choice to stay in a facility where MAID is not offered’
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Many questions will linger post-pandemic
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Now that vaccines have made it possible for the world to be free of COVID-19, what consequences of this plague can we look forward to?
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Despite the alarmism, Covid-19 is not the Black Death
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Instead of focusing on a problem concentrated in our long-term care facilities, politicians have closed vast swaths of our economy
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Building quality of life into spaces for people with ‘invisible’ disabilities
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Ensuring physical accessibility is only the beginning of creating places where people can ‘be who they are,’ says design consultant and PhD student Lara Pinchbeck
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“Medical assistance in dying” worries many Canadians
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A UN report is critical of Canada’s poor MAID safeguards for people with disabilities and their lack of access to viable MAID alternatives
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Caregiving can last for decades, new research shows
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Understanding different lifetime patterns of caregiving can inform supportive policies to help people cope, say U of A researchers
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The overblown panic of COVID-19
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We trampled, in fear, over memory and institutions, obsessively protective and morally dismissive of dignity and human life
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New guidelines help people with dementia stay safe if lost
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U of A researchers tap into experiences and ideas of people living with dementia to fill public information gap
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