Accessing In-Home Health Care through your Community Care Access Centre* Are you caring for an aging parent? Are you concerned about a loved one’s ability to continue living independently at home? Are you facing surgery or cancer treatment? Are you or a loved one in need of palliative care services? Community Care Access Centres*, or [...]

“I’ll never put you in an old age home.” Of all the situations we encounter through caring for an aging parent, the moment many of us dread most is the one where we will have to talk to our parents about moving out of their current residence and into ‘a home’. The need for this [...]

Are You an Overachieving Caregiver? (From the Alzheimer’s Sourcebook for Caregivers) Do you feel that no-one else can look after your relative as well as you can? Do you go for weeks without taking even an hour off? Would you feel you had abandoned your relative if you took him or her to a day [...]