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The Dementia Handbook

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By Judith Cornish Providing dementia care is profoundly stressful for families and caregivers but what is often missed is the fact that people with dementia often experience emotional distress, leading to behavioural complications and the need for institutional care. However, if care providers can empathetically identify the emotional needs caused by dementia and
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The trouble with “resiliency”

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It is time to get to the root causes of health care worker burnout By Irving Gold Over the last several years, there has been an increasing recognition that burnout is rising exponentially among health care workers—and there has been a positive shift in the public understanding of burnout and other mental health issues in […]
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Tangled Up

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By Michael Hornberger Can I inherit Alzheimer’s disease from my parents? Why do people with Alzheimer’s “live in the past?” Can I reduce my risk for Alzheimer’s disease? How did Alois Alzheimer discover the disease? If these are questions you have asked yourself, then this book is for you. Throughout the book, we will go […]
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Making it WorkTM: 

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Keeping people with arthritis on the job Arthritis is the most common condition that causes Canadians to stop working. That is a big problem when you consider the fact that over six million Canadians live with arthritis and most are diagnosed between age 30 and 45, during the prime of their working lives.  The ripple […]
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Antidepressed

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By Beverley Thomson Antidepressed breaks down the growing issue of antidepressant use, harm and dependence—how we got to this point, what is happening worldwide every single day, and most importantly, where we go from here. Providing information that both patients and mental health professionals desperately need, Antidepressed exposes the holes in mental health systems and
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Butter Side Up

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By Jane Enright In the span of 12 months, Jane Enright endured three life-altering events, lost everything and hit rock bottom. She suffered a severe head injury and lost her speech (and business), her partner was in a bad accident and lost his memory, and cancer took her best friend of 40 years. After all […]
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Lessons for the next pandemic: 

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We need better data  By Peter Smith, Andrew Curran and Letitia Davis From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health agencies around the world failed to collect the information we needed to truly understand the role of work and workplaces in the spread of the virus. We saw this failure in Canada, the United […]
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Identifying severity of osteoarthritis  Watch for a new grading scale to measure the severity of osteoarthritis in patients. Called OA-COM (which stands for Osteoarthritis—Cartilage, Osteophytes, Menisci) it uses Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The OA-COM grading scale will allow research to be conducted within very early or late-stage osteoarthritis, and enable