Thursday, April 21, 2011
Caring@Home: That ringing is going to drive me crazy!
Caring@Home: That ringing is going to drive me crazy!: "To read more of the Caring@Home blog please vist our new location at www.bayshore.ca/caringathomeblog. Join the team, become a member, shari..."
That ringing is going to drive me crazy!
To read more of the Caring@Home blog please vist our new location at www.bayshore.ca/caringathomeblog. Join the team, become a member, sharing your stories and ask your questions. I would love to hear from you.
Your truly ,
Jackie
Your truly ,
Jackie
Friday, April 15, 2011
Caring@Home: A new location for the Caring@Home blog
Caring@Home: A new location for the Caring@Home blog: "Good Friday afternoon to all the Caring@Home members. Once again thank you for your dedication to the weekly blog. I am happy to inform you ..."
A new location for the Caring@Home blog
Good Friday afternoon to all the Caring@Home members. Once again thank you for your dedication to the weekly blog. I am happy to inform you we have moved the blog to the Bayshore website you can easily locate it at:
www.bayshore.ca
http://www.bayshore.ca
http://www.bayshore.ca/caringathomeblog
I look forward to hearing from you regularly, please hit the "become a member" to join the team and send your questions and comments.
Yours truly,
Jackie
www.bayshore.ca
http://www.bayshore.ca
http://www.bayshore.ca/caringathomeblog
I look forward to hearing from you regularly, please hit the "become a member" to join the team and send your questions and comments.
Yours truly,
Jackie
Friday, April 8, 2011
Caring@Home: Home care is the cornerstone of an inclusive, turn...
Caring@Home: Home care is the cornerstone of an inclusive, turn...: "Often, family caregivers start off thinking they can manage caring for an ailing parent on their own. But as the task becomes overwhelming –..."
Home care is the cornerstone of an inclusive, turn-key health care system for seniors
Often, family caregivers start off thinking they can manage caring for an ailing parent on their own. But as the task becomes overwhelming – especially if they are of the sandwich generation and have jobs and children – their role shifts to that of a health care system navigator. Arranging publicly funded home or institutional care becomes even more exhausting than the attention and physical care they personally provide to a loved one. It is then they realize they have entered into confusing sequence of events that involves a multitude of health care professionals and organizations.
This is a situation that will occur with increasing regularity. Statistics Canada has predicted that the number of seniors will surpass the number of children aged 14 or under for the first time ever sometime between 2015 and 2021.
In my experience many family caregivers tend to learn the hard way, through trial and error. This shouldn’t be the case. When my father became ill our family decided to keep him at home to fulfill his wishes. Everyone had homework to do: finding community health resources, investigating care funding options and bringing in help for my mother, as she ultimately became the family caregiver. These were trying times. Our success lay in the fact that we truly became a multi-disciplinary family care team.
If you are faced with becoming a family caregiver or arranging care, you also need to do your homework. Your first steps should be:
• Understand how home care in Canada is funded. Our provincial governments are primarily responsible for health care funding and distributing dollars various divisions within their health care sectors. Provincial home care programs vary across the county in the services they offer, their care delivery mechanisms and eligibility criteria. To understand the process and what’s available, you should visit your provincial home and community care website (e.g., the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, in Ontario).
• Determine what kind of care and funding you are eligible for through government-funded home care programs. This typically will require meeting with hospital discharge planners or social workers and government care program coordinators.
• Investigate your personal and workplace insurance policies for home care benefits.
• Learn about community health services, both public and private. Search online; speak with your local hospital, family physician or even friends.
• Check with volunteer and non-profit organizations in your community that provide support services.
Many people and organizations are advocating for comprehensive, publically-funded community and home care services that are recognized as an essential component of the Canadian health care system. In my opinion, home care is the cornerstone of an inclusive, turn-key health care system for seniors. The answer is collaborative home care programs that involve health care practitioners, the patient and family caregivers, which are accessible, convenient and work in unison.
This is a situation that will occur with increasing regularity. Statistics Canada has predicted that the number of seniors will surpass the number of children aged 14 or under for the first time ever sometime between 2015 and 2021.
In my experience many family caregivers tend to learn the hard way, through trial and error. This shouldn’t be the case. When my father became ill our family decided to keep him at home to fulfill his wishes. Everyone had homework to do: finding community health resources, investigating care funding options and bringing in help for my mother, as she ultimately became the family caregiver. These were trying times. Our success lay in the fact that we truly became a multi-disciplinary family care team.
If you are faced with becoming a family caregiver or arranging care, you also need to do your homework. Your first steps should be:
• Understand how home care in Canada is funded. Our provincial governments are primarily responsible for health care funding and distributing dollars various divisions within their health care sectors. Provincial home care programs vary across the county in the services they offer, their care delivery mechanisms and eligibility criteria. To understand the process and what’s available, you should visit your provincial home and community care website (e.g., the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, in Ontario).
• Determine what kind of care and funding you are eligible for through government-funded home care programs. This typically will require meeting with hospital discharge planners or social workers and government care program coordinators.
• Investigate your personal and workplace insurance policies for home care benefits.
• Learn about community health services, both public and private. Search online; speak with your local hospital, family physician or even friends.
• Check with volunteer and non-profit organizations in your community that provide support services.
Many people and organizations are advocating for comprehensive, publically-funded community and home care services that are recognized as an essential component of the Canadian health care system. In my opinion, home care is the cornerstone of an inclusive, turn-key health care system for seniors. The answer is collaborative home care programs that involve health care practitioners, the patient and family caregivers, which are accessible, convenient and work in unison.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Caring@Home: April is Daffodil Month – honour and remember thos...
http://nursejackiehickey.blogspot.com/2011/04/april-is-daffodil-month-honour-and.html?spref=bl: "I’m sure if you think for a minute, there is someone you know who has been embattled with the horrifying, gruesome disease of cancer. Accord..."
April is Daffodil Month – honour and remember those who have been embattled by cancer
I’m sure if you think for a minute, there is someone you know who has been embattled with the horrifying, gruesome disease of cancer. According to the Canadian Cancer Society (http://www.cancer.ca/), every three minutes another Canadian is faced with fighting cancer and it will attack over 173,000 Canadians this year. This statistic must be obliterated. As many of you know, April is recognized as Daffodil Month – we are encouraged to donate and wear a daffodil as a symbol to fight back against cancer and support those who must take the tremulous journey to fight their own fight.
Cancer, unfortunately, has touched almost everyone at sometime or another. I lost my father, mother-in-law and cousin to the disease, and it’s something you can never forgive or forget. If you visit the Join the Fight page (http://www.fightback.ca/index.html) on the Canadian Cancer Society’s website, you’ll see how significant the month of April is in the fight against cancer: “To some, the daffodil is just a flower, to us, it is a symbol of strength and courage, a symbol of life. It says we will not give up. It says we will fight back. It says we will beat cancer.”
We have all seen poignant cancer ads or commercials that emotionally pull at our heartstrings. For example, a mom tells her story of chemotherapy and determination to fight because she wants to be at her daughter’s graduation and wedding, or the lung cancer victim undergoing a bronchoscopy, with her doctor commenting on how it’s “too late.” But until it hits us directly where it hurts, we tend to turn the other cheek.
Write in your calendar, send yourself a reminder or call a friend – whatever it takes, this April, Join the Fight. Donate, volunteer, spread the word and wear your daffodil – awareness is key. Everyone can make a difference and help support someone living with cancer or fund research to beat it.
From a cancer prevention standpoint, proactive health screening tests are highly recommended. They can help find some types of cancer early, even before you have any symptoms, and allow you to prevent cancer by finding changes in your body that could become cancer if left untreated. It’s also important to visit your family doctor for a yearly physical in order to keep on top of the preventative health bandwagon (http://www.cancer.ca/Ontario/Prevention/Get%20screened.aspx?sc_lang=en#ixzz1ID4YsYvO).
Today our office bought 100 daffodils (http://www.fightback.ca/FreshDaffodils.html) to launch an annual company-wide fundraiser in support of the Hike for Hospice Palliative Care (http://www.chpca.net/hfhpc). This is but one of the many ways we can come together to honour and remember the people in our lives affected by cancer. How will you remember them this April?
Cancer, unfortunately, has touched almost everyone at sometime or another. I lost my father, mother-in-law and cousin to the disease, and it’s something you can never forgive or forget. If you visit the Join the Fight page (http://www.fightback.ca/index.html) on the Canadian Cancer Society’s website, you’ll see how significant the month of April is in the fight against cancer: “To some, the daffodil is just a flower, to us, it is a symbol of strength and courage, a symbol of life. It says we will not give up. It says we will fight back. It says we will beat cancer.”
We have all seen poignant cancer ads or commercials that emotionally pull at our heartstrings. For example, a mom tells her story of chemotherapy and determination to fight because she wants to be at her daughter’s graduation and wedding, or the lung cancer victim undergoing a bronchoscopy, with her doctor commenting on how it’s “too late.” But until it hits us directly where it hurts, we tend to turn the other cheek.
Write in your calendar, send yourself a reminder or call a friend – whatever it takes, this April, Join the Fight. Donate, volunteer, spread the word and wear your daffodil – awareness is key. Everyone can make a difference and help support someone living with cancer or fund research to beat it.
From a cancer prevention standpoint, proactive health screening tests are highly recommended. They can help find some types of cancer early, even before you have any symptoms, and allow you to prevent cancer by finding changes in your body that could become cancer if left untreated. It’s also important to visit your family doctor for a yearly physical in order to keep on top of the preventative health bandwagon (http://www.cancer.ca/Ontario/Prevention/Get%20screened.aspx?sc_lang=en#ixzz1ID4YsYvO).
Today our office bought 100 daffodils (http://www.fightback.ca/FreshDaffodils.html) to launch an annual company-wide fundraiser in support of the Hike for Hospice Palliative Care (http://www.chpca.net/hfhpc). This is but one of the many ways we can come together to honour and remember the people in our lives affected by cancer. How will you remember them this April?
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