The Power of Advance Care Planning is a guest blogging post with information about Advance Care Planning submitted by the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association. Advance Care Planning is an important part of Navigating Healthcare for all Canadians. The time for an plan is before it’s needed. As we approach Advance Care Planning Day on… Navigating Healthcare: The Power of Advance Care Planning
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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuEA6-y8sD0). Three caring leaders have… ‘Learning the Ropes’ Course Wins An Award!
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 current state of healthcare systems,… How To Be Your Own Patient Navigator
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. Sometimes they communicate among themselves.… How Healthcare Systems in Canada Work
The obvious answer is that we should all learn to navigate healthcare before we need to! That’s not how it usually works because we often don’t even think about our healthcare systems until we find ourselves needing them. But there are some clues that can help guide you, or help you identify when a friend… When Do You Need to Learn to Navigate Healthcare?