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Aging in place needs more than good intentions — it needs smart infrastructure

Supportive smart homes should be treated as core infrastructure in modern aging policy By Dr. Frank Knofel s aging faster than our systems are adapting. Nearly one in four Canadians will be over age 65 within the next decade. Research consistently shows that most older adults want...

Canada’s Hospitals Can’t Solve the Seniors Care Crisis Alone

Across Canada, hospitals are under enormous pressure, with lengthy wait times and beds filled well beyond capacity. While there are many reasons for this strain, one factor is impossible to ignore. Our healthcare system is increasingly relying on hospitals to solve a seniors care...

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Hospital to Home program aims to reduce ER visits

HN Summary • Windsor Regional Hospital, in partnership with SE Health, has launched the Hospital...

Slower-walking seniors at risk for falls benefit most from home-based exercise program

HN Summary • New research shows a home-based strength and balance exercise program can significantly...

Are we entering a new era of dementia treatment?

A Q&A with Sunnybrook Neurologists Over the next five years, researchers estimate that more than...

Canadian startup launches wearable to improve gait and reduce falls in older adults

PhysioBiometrics Inc. has launched Heel2Toe™, a wearable therapeutic device designed to assess and train...

Easy to install and retrofit home emergency call sysytem with EnOcean technology

In care facilities and serviced apartments quick help in an emergency counts. Modern home...

Smart wearables for faster cardiac arrest emergency response

Prototypes of smartwatches and rings are driving forward advances in wearable technology that instantly...

Our brains can communicate wordlessly, through our eyes

McGill researchers have demonstrated something long assumed: that glances can transmit information about one’s...

Heart failure patient recovers at home thanks to a Canadian first at HHS

It felt like an elephant was sitting on my chest.” That’s how Hamilton resident Peg...

A health management solution for older adults and their family caregivers

When Rob Parker’s father got sick in his mid-70s, it took two years and...

Using social prescribing to help older adults facing isolation

On a sunny fall day in Toronto, Sandesh Basnet is in the St. Lawrence...

‘Healthy aging’: Education empowers patients when it comes to preventing falls

A pilot program at Providence Healthcare hopes to empower patients to be more active...

Personalized home evaluation tool for older adults and people with disabilities wins national competition

Canadian startup Incluzia Inc. has won the 2024 AGE-WELL National Impact Challenge: Solutions for...

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New approach opens door to better-targeted treatments and faster drug discovery for complex diseases

McGill University researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can identify small groups of cells most responsible...

Canadian Cancer Society urges lowering colorectal cancer screening age to 45

The Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) is calling on provinces and territories to lower the...

Unleashing natural killer cells against cancer

Scientists have developed a strategy to boost the cancer-fighting power of natural killer (NK)...

Doctors report false health information, lack of health data sharing put patient care at risk

Canada's doctors are concerned that false health information and disconnected health systems are putting...