Smart Ageing

As summer draws to a close, some of our older clients and their friends are thinking about moving to a retirement home. It’s important to work through the benefits and drawbacks as well as the costs of such a move well in advance of doing so. And don’t underestimate the quality-of-life factors that are important such as socializing with others and various opportunities to engage within the community. Happy hour….

Over the past decade, a caregiving crisis has been building in the workplace. Currently, 35% of the Canadian workforce or 8 million people, are struggling and juggling their work responsibilities with caregiving duties. It’s a perfect storm: a rapidly aging population living longer with more complex care needs and fewer family members to care for them. The stress of juggling caregiving and work responsibilities is leading to burnout, absenteeism, and….

Consulting a person who has significant diminished capacity can be very difficult for both the consultant and the individual. In Part One of this article, we explored a case in which a client with moderately severe dementia gave one answer to a simple question posed by a family member in the morning and the opposite answer to another family member that same afternoon, sparking heated conflict among the siblings. This….