Saying Goodbye and sharing memories with a simple online solution
Guest blog post by Maxime T, co-founder of www.remember-me.co website. Remember-me is a simple and safe way to share, preserve and send on personal messages and memories to loved ones once you’re gone. The idea of a web-based service that would give the power to people to communicate a little bit longer than life normally […]
Thoughts on Physician Assisted Dying
It has been an incredible month. We attended conferences in Texas, Ontario and California. We are home now, absorbing the learning, and trying to integrate what we learned into our beings. Most profound for me was the opportunity to attend sessions addressing Physician Assisted Dying. The debate is over. Physician Assisted Dying has been legalized […]
Behavioural Changes: The Importance of “Knowing the Person”
This story is shared with us by our colleague Andrea Leatherdale – RN, BScN, Practical Nursing Program Coordinator at Centennial College. In this story, the nurse observes changes in behaviour of one of the residents. The nurse is not able to shake off the concern that something significant is about to happen. The story illustrates […]
Advocating for the Family of Persons with Dementia
This piece was written by our friend and colleague, Andrea Leatherdale – RN, BScN, Practical Nursing Program Coordinator at Centennial College. Depending on a long-term care agency’s policies, when a person with dementia enters the end-stage of life, management/administration may seek to transfer care to an alternate level of care (palliative care unit) away from the […]
