Shining a Light on Depression Is it time for us to pull out all stops and shift our primary approach to depression from treatment to prevention? Prevention is better than cure—stop it before it occurs. Keep something from happening...
Arbutus Care Centre is part of Revera, one of North America’s leading providers of seniors’ care and services since 1961. Boyd Foster lives at Revera’s Arbutus Care Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia and recently shared about the residents’ experiences...
Providing opportunities for residents with to support and help one another is an excellent daily intervention and preventative treatment to address unmet needs (Cohen-Mansfield, 2014). Peer support has a significant impact on loneliness and depression and yet we rarely...
Louisiana LEADER Summit, Marksville Louisiana – March 18-19, 2015 Together We Care, Ontario Long Term Care Assoc.,Toronto Mar 30 – Apr 1 Ontario Assoc. of Non-profit Homes & Services (OANHSS), Toronto Apr 13-15 National Assoc. of Activity Professionals (NAAP),...
An overwhelming positive response was received to a recent survey of facilitators of the Java Music Club program in both Canada and the US. 100% of respondents said they would recommend the program to others. The comments and quotes...
Loneliness and depression, high resident to staff ratios and shrinking health care budgets—these are ongoing concerns across the spectrum of care in senior living. An emerging body of research is heralding a different approach to these critical issues. It’s...
My name is Sharron Cooke and I am the president of the Ontario Association of Residents’ Councils (OARC). I would like to share with you an idea that we came up with to use the traditional talking stick from...
The Three Keys to Calmness In his book called The Worry Solution, Dr. Martin Rossman writes about the importance of cultivating calmness in our lives.1 When we are calm and relaxed, our bodies and brains repair and renew themselves. (Read...
New Research Due to a combination of pervasive stereotyping (1), cognitive impairment and complex health conditions (2), those living in residential long-term care face numerous challenges to finding meaning and purpose, establishing and maintaining relationships, and coping with change....
Le Club de musique Java Voilà! The Java Music Club is now available in French. Chartwell recently implemented the Java Music Club in all of their over 180 retirement and long-term care homes across Canada – including Quebec. The French...