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Your go-to resources for educational articles, videos and other content to help you maintain your health, dignity and independence as you age or recover from life-limiting illness or injury, or as you transition to caring for an aging loved one.
Total Body Strength Protocol
If it doesn’t challenge you it doesn’t change you. This statement not only applies to life's challenges, but it also applies to physical activity and fitness. When it...

7 Steps: Meal Planning for Beginners
It’s Tuesday night – You just got off work, haven’t eaten all day, and now it’s time to face the dreaded question, “what’s for dinner?" You find yourself faced with two...

Can Morphine Kill You?
We are often afraid of the unknown, and although approaching an unfamiliar situation with hesitation is a normal reaction, this feeling can prevent us from choosing the...

How Does Someone Qualify For Hospice?
One of the most common questions people ask me is "How does someone qualify for Hospice?". This question is at the foundation of understanding what options are...

What It Takes To Be A Good Home Care Giver
As the surgeon turned the monitor toward us, we were stunned. We were lost for words 16 screws & 28 rods, after 11 hours of surgery on her front, her face...

Preparing for Aging
Preparing for Ageing “Hey Mom, how are you?” “I’ve had a bit of a fall and I can’t really move very well”, she said. I was thousands of miles away busy on a...

Verona Court – Susan’s Story
“I have three beautiful examples of how much it means to us and turned what is a really hard, difficult time in everyone’s life—because we all have to experience it,...

Making The Most Of Your Later Years With A Caregiver
It all comes upon us so suddenly - the need for help and we’re rarely prepared it’s an uphill battle to get through our later years. We do far more to avoid pain...