Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Moira Wyton writes about the growing chorus of experts warning that we’re on the verge of another deadly wave of COVID-19. Shira Lurie…
Home Care
National Caregivers Month in a Year Like No Other
This morning I looked at all my posts from early November since I began writing this blog (eleven years ago). At this time annually, to mark the beginning of National…
On negative contributions
I’ve previously noted how the Saskatchewan Party’s platform diverts money to the people who need it least. But it’s worth taking a closer look to see exactly how little Scott…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Asher Schecter interviews Emmanuel Saez about the realities of growing inequality – and the denialists looking to exacerbate it. And Chris Hayes talks…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Peter Gowan and Thomas Hanna write about the urgent need to free people from the market forces which currently trap them in…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Suresh Naidu, Dani Rodrik and Gabrien Zucman write about the developing movement toward an economic discipline which recognizes the importance of human well-being,…
DO FAMILIES BELONG IN HEALTH CARE?
If you have ever been in the same room with your loved one and a health care professional, you’ll know that it’s disorienting. I say that because it’s like going…
INNOVATION: USING TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT WORKING CAREGIVERS
A couple of weeks ago, an article about a new caregiving technology for families caught my eye. BookJane is a Toronto based app available across Canada. It’s a platform that…
Canada-NL Health Deal: Warning Signs #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Late Friday evening, the provincial government announced it had signed a deal with the federal government on health funding. We don’t know what the arrangement is on the annual increase…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Terry Pedwell reports that young workers who were apparently expected to provide Justin Trudeau with a public relations backdrop instead delivered an important…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Andrew Leach's after-the-fact addendum to his review of Alberta's climate change policy offers an important reminder as to the costs of inaction on climate…
THE PROBLEM WITH HOME CARE
Let me tell you a story. I have a friend who has a graduate degree, who loves her privacy but also dinner with friends and who loves to read as…
THE PROBLEM WITH HOME CARE
Let me tell you a story. I have a friend who has a graduate degree, who loves her privacy but also dinner with friends and who loves to read as…
“Care as a relationship” is key to good long-term care: research
What are long-term care residences around the world doing right? That’s the question an international research team travelled across North America and Europe to find out. Led by Pat Armstrong…
Sick of Caregiving?
I was surprised to see this question as the title of an email I received this morning. "Sick of Caregiving?" isn't the sort of thing I usually receive. My inbox…
A Fight Between PSWs, Clients and Agency Service Providers Spells Trouble For All
Over the years, our family has relied on the help, friendship and dedication of personal support workers, both for our son Nicholas and more recently for my mother who needs…
Home Care: Giving and taking away
The government gives, the home care agencies take away. Many of OPSEU’s home care agencies are presently at the bargaining table. You’d think this would be the best of times…
Tory health platform review: Direct promise to scrap LHINs, CCACs missing
Curiously after months of saying they’ll do away with both the Local Health Integration Networks and the Community Care Access Centres, both direct promises are conspicuously absent from the formal…