by External Article | Sep 9, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Client, Finding Caregiver Support, For Professional Caregivers, Long Term Caregiving |
As a person with the mental illness disability of schizoaffective disorder, I am quite familiar with the inpatient mental hospital experience. I have frequently devolved into crisis and found myself in the Emergency Room. Being in a day programme provided me with... 
by External Article | Dec 1, 2018 | 24/7 Caregiving, Care Work Library, Housing, Long Term Caregiving |
This is Town Square, a daytime care facility for people with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia that attempts to engage participants with reminiscence therapy. The idea is to evoke an earlier era, which prompts participants to hark back to their most powerful memories,... 
by External Article | Nov 5, 2015 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Child, Finances, Long Term Caregiving, Silent generation |
A Sarnia, Ontario, woman and her disabled son are appealing to the province’s Human Rights Tribunal to force a local agency to pay him more than the 46 cents [$0.35 USD] an hour he’s been earning for his work. Erla McCormick says that rate—23 times lower... 
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