Caregivers Posts

Home and Community Care in Canada, an Economic Footprint

May 25, 2012

May 25, 2012 – Home and community care in Canada is something of a mystery. We know that home care is up to 75 ...

Halifax: Wait for long-term beds ‘unacceptable’

May 4, 2012

This article was published by The Cape Breton Post on April 29th 2012.  To see this article and other related articles ...

Home Care – we need more action, fewer excuses

April 20, 2012

To complement the Health Council of Canada (HCC)'s latest report on seniors, home care and caregivers, CARP VP of ...

Caregiver’s Diary: To All The Family

February 24, 2012

My widowed 88 year old father writes from his fancy retirement home in Niagara: “Youngest sister has been wonderful ...

Caregivers: Input needed for Survey

February 14, 2012

Do you provide non-medical care for someone 65+? CARP and SERC need your input for an important survey. Dear CARP ...

Caregiver’s Diary: More From Serenity Towers

February 9, 2012

                    My widowed 88 year old father has ...

No Health Accord – now what?

January 26, 2012

- CARP proposes an Alternate Vision- Get to Work on Pharmacare, National Home Care and Age-Friendly Health Care Just ...

Caregiver’s Diary: Visiting Dad in His New Home

January 12, 2012

My widowed 88 year old father had survived the trip from his now-empty house in the Maritimes to his splendid new ...

Are you or do you provide care for a senior with a chronic health condition?

December 21, 2011

We want to hear about your experiences using and moving between the many different parts of Ontario's healthcare ...

Caregiver’s Diary: Coming Home For Christmas

December 6, 2011

I have detailed in these pages how my widowed father, alone for a year in an empty house far away in the Maritimes, had ...