The Supporting Healthy Aging by Peer Education and Support (SHAPES) program, developed by the University of Alberta, trained seniors to act as health coaches for others in their age group. The focus for the year-long pilot project is on seniors'
A long-term care facility in the Region of Peel in Ontario is one of the first in Canada to adopt a British-developed "Butterfly" dementia care model. In it, staff are encouraged to interact socially with patients, who are grouped according to their
The province's three-year plan includes funding for 200 new doctors to work in the team-based model and for 200 additional nurse practitioners at the cost of $181 million to hire the new doctors and $115 million for the nurse practitioners. The
Times & Transcript columnist Jenna Morton reiterates UN director general’s comments about organizations and governments not listening closely enough to young people. The organization launched a global poll to measure youths' opinions on education
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations’ (FSIN) suicide prevention strategy draws on previous efforts from Quebec, Nunavut and U.S. Indigenous communities that have shown promising results. It emphasizes community-based prevention through
Best Buy is exploring health tools as part of its strategy to expand its tech support services with a pilot service called Assured Living. The pilot aims to help the aging population stay healthy at home with assistance from technology products and
A report into factors causing health inequalities from StatsCan finds 22 indicators that underlie differences in health outcomes across Canada. Health determinant indicators can be daily living conditions such as high alcohol consumption; smoking and
A global survey conducted by the International Federation of Ageing finds half of Canadians with diabetes-induced eye diseases (DED or DME) are concerned about vision loss, a higher percentage than that for kidney disease or cardiovascular disease
HealthLandscape is a U.S. company based on an interactive web atlas. It belongs to the American Academy of Family Physicians. It launched an atlas called the Community Vital Signs Population Health Profiler tool, which gives physicians free data on
A hospital in Oliver, B.C., is testing a technology called MedHx to link its MEDITECH database with the province's prescription network, PharmaNet. The hospital says in the past, healthcare providers had to physically enter data about a patient's