Advice From Patients and Care Partners: Gathering Our Experiences I’ve gone back to the drawing board to re-create my book writing project! Last year’s project was overwhelming and didn’t centre the most important information: the lived experience of the only people in our healthcare systems that navigate the disconnected offices, Read more…
Let the bells ring out, and the banners fly! The ‘Learning the Ropes’ online course wins an award from ‘The Caregiving Years Training Academy‘. The other programs that will have been honoured are: LEARN-Lifelong Education & Aging Resource Network (https://learnidaho.org/channels/) , and Kathy Murri for a special Grief Program award Read more…
What is Canadian Patient Safety Week? Every year, Healthcare Excellence Canada promotes Canadian Patient Safety Week. ‘Press Play on Safety Conversations’ is the theme this year and safer care of older Canadians is the focus. The goal is to help patients, families and healthcare professionals start having conversations about what Read more…
What is a Patient Navigator? The Patient Navigator helps patients and care partners better understand and navigate our own healthcare situation, to improve our health ‘outcome’. This includes understanding your health issue, and how the system functions so you can more smoothly navigate our healthcare systems. Important note: Given the Read more…
Or don’t. Healthcare Systems in Canada Are Siloed We think of healthcare in Canada as one system. But it isn’t. Healthcare is organized at the provincial level in Canada, but even provincially there isn’t one system. At all levels of healthcare there are many separate systems disguised as one system. Read more…