Caring for both your children and your elderly parents? You are not alone. More than one in five working Canadians belong to the “sandwich generation”, where the dual responsibilities of caring for both children and parents often leads to stress ...

How one Women’s College scientist is helping to prepare our health care system Today’s health care costs make up 46 per cent of Ontario’s budget. And if our system doesn’t adapt, by 2054, after the proportion of seniors in our population ...

St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto is not designated as a palliative care facility, but we provide quality treatment and compassionate support for palliative patients in medicine units throughout our hospital. In some cases, the Health Centre is the last place ...

A slim robot stole the spotlight when Baycrest officially opened its Innovation, Technology and Design Lab (ITD) in late February. The telepresence robot, spanning just over four feet in height with an iPad head that displays video images, moved niftily in ...

Lise Johnson lies comfortably in her hospital bed, gazing toward the big, bright window in her room. “I feel such a feeling of peace,” she says. “I’m not afraid.” Lise is accompanied by her husband, Al, and their daughter, Nancy, on Ward ...

In a hospital that often operates beyond its bed capacity, there’s one bed, in a big, bright, beautiful room that’s reserved for a very special patient and family experience. It’s the “Special Care Bed” at Peterborough Regional Health Centre’s palliative unit ...

When Robert was advised that his wife Marlene, 72, who is living with Alzheimer’s disease, should be transferred from a long-term care facility to a mental health hospital, he was devastated. “I expected that she would be placed in a ...

Caring for a friend or family member at the end-of-life can have many different faces - a woman struggling to manage a career and family while caring for a husband with cancer; a senior citizen with health problems caring for ...

It’s early Friday morning and about a dozen 7th floor residents are participating in the Breakfast Club program. They are sitting in their wheelchairs or on chairs with their walkers nearby while eating and chatting. Today the residents have planned ...

Wendy’s 42nd birthday fell on a bright, warm Monday. That September afternoon, Wendy Almeida breathed her last breath, succumbing to her long battle with cancer. She felt secure and loved. Friends and family gathered to celebrate with her the previous ...