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In this episode I speak with the Mike Michel the founder of the TrainR Caregiving App to assist caregivers. Website: https://caretrainr.com/ Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/ee/app/caretrainr/id1531034349 The link👇is a detailed tutorial 7min watch diving deep into the app and its functionality. https://www.canva.com/design/DAE6_l8g_kI/KBLRkwkqfSfnmrfkUTJGlg/view?utm_content=DAE6_l8g_kI&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=homepage_design_menu The discount code is wendy - this discount will expire June 1, 2022

In this episode discuss the nursing crisis in healthcare in Ontario with Dr. Doris Grinspun the CEO of the Registered Nursing Association of Ontario (RNAO) Bio: Dr. Doris Grinspun is Chief Executive Officer of the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO), the professional association representing registered nurses, nurse practitioners. and nursing students in the province of Ontario, Canada’s largest jurisdiction. RNAO’s mandate is to advance healthy public policy and the role of registered nurses and nurse practitioners. Grinspun assumed this position in 1996. She is the founder and visionary of RNAO’s internationally renowned Best Practice Guidelines Program and a leading figure in Canadian and international health and nursing policy. Provincial Election Platform: https://rnao.ca/policy/platform-provincial Chief Nursing Office of Canada: https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/icec/ao-pa/AssignmentOpportunity-eng.aspx?ID=9a14cfc3-9068-4d00-87d7-698961780aa7&GoCTemplateCulture=en-CA Provincial Chief Nursing Officer of Ontario https://www.gojobs.gov.on.ca/Preview.aspx?Language=English&JobID=176656 Contact: Twitter@ltc_chronicles Instagram: the_ltc_chronicles_podcast

In today's episode I speak with Meagan Gallmore with is an independant reporter who wrote an article Young People with disabilities in long term care Article: https://broadview.org/young-people-with-disabilities-long-term-care/ BIO: Meagan Gillmore has worked as a journalist for outlets across Canada, including in the Yukon and New Brunswick. She started working with AMI-audio in 2016 and is currently an accessibility reporter for NOW with Dave Brown. Meagan’s writing has appeared in various outlets, including the CBC, Toronto Star, TVO.org and The Walrus. Her Walrus essay, “The author who shaped the way we represent disability”—about the late children’s author Jean Little—was nominated for a Digital Publishing Award in 2021 and read by Meagan on Voices of The Walrus. Meagan was born in London, Ont., and grew up in Brantford, where she earned a degree in English and journalism from Wilfrid Laurier University. She also has a certificate in publishing from Centennial College. She’s pursuing a Master’s degree in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa. She is a passionate lover of books, country music, chocolate and peanut butter combinations, podcasts, the Toronto Blue Jays, and puppies, among more serious pursuits. Meagan is continually amazed by all the people she meets as a result of her visual impairment (and perhaps because her love of travel is combined with a poor sense of direction). She believes disability can lead us to better and deeper relationships. Each month on Connecting Disability she asks others about how their disability has expanded their connections with others, themselves and society. Petition: https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-3656 Contact: Twitter@ltc_chronicles Intagram: @

In this episode I speak with Charlotte Gibson who was the former Preseident & CEO of Easter Seal Society of Ontario and was a caregiver to her sister Sandra who resided in long term care as a young person. Charlotte details the caregiving journey with her sister Sandra and what were the learnings and challenges being faced as a resident and caregiver. Charlotte has written a book Running with Unicorns which is set to be released by Spring of 2022 YouTube: https://youtu.be/XH8X-CtGiAU Contact Twitter: @ltc_chronciles Instagram: the_ltc_chronicles_podcast SoundCloud: @user-384632250 #TheLTCChroniclesPodcast #caregiver # youngerresident

In this eposide I speak with Moira Welsh the author of Happily Ever Older and an investigative reporter with the Toronro Star. Reporter Moira Welsh has spent years investigating retirement homes and long-term care facilities and wants to tell the dangerous stories. Not the accounts of falls or bedsores or overmedication, but of seniors living with purpose and energy and love. Stories that could change the status quo. Welsh takes readers across North America and into Europe on a whirlwind tour of facilities with novel approaches to community living, including a day program in a fake town out of the 1950s, a residence where seniors school their student roommates in beer pong, and an aging-in-place community in a forest where everyone seems to have a pet or a garden or both. The COVID-19 pandemic cruelly showed us that social isolation is debilitating, and Welsh tells stories of elders living with friendship, new and old, in their later years. Happily Ever Older is a warm, inspiring blueprint for change, proof that instead of warehousing seniors, we can create a future with strong social connections and a reason to go on living. Amazon:https://www.amazon.ca/Happily-Ever-Older-Revolutionary-Approaches/dp/1770415211 Twitter: @HappilyEO YouTube: https://youtu.be/SXxfNeEm6kw Contact Twitter: @ltc_chronciles Instagram: the_ltc_chronicles_podcast SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-384632250 #TheLTCChroniclesPodcast #dementiacare # LTC

In thiis episode I talk with Dr. Hsien Seow, PhD & Dr. Samantha Winemaker from The Waiting Room Revolution Podcast on Palliative Care. The Waiting Room Revolution Podcast Website: https://www.waitingroomrevolution.com/ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/waiting-room-revolution/id1545997125?cc=ca&id=1545997125&urlDesc=%2Fwaiting-room-revolution&ign-itsct=podcast_box&ign-itscg=30200&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 Audio File of the Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/user-384632250/the-ltc-chronicles-podcast-dr-hsien-seow-phd-dr-samantha-winemaker-talk-on-palliative-care/s-QkL5ljJWNy6 Contact Twitter: @ltc_chronciles Instagram: the_ltc_chronicles_podcast SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-384632250 #TheLTCChroniclesPodcast #palliativecare # LTC

Discussing with Doris Grinspun CEO of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario the pandemic in the last year and the challenges still being faced. Media Release: March 31, 2021 https://rnao.ca/news/media-releases/results-nursing-survey-point-alarming-exodus-profession-following-pandemic-says Nursing Support: March 29, 2021 https://rnao.ca/news/media-releases/rnao-release-results-its-work-and-wellbeing-survey-rns-nps-and-nursing-students RNAO Action Alerts https://rnao.ca/policy/action-alerts Youtube: https://youtu.be/ExAuVUBujeA Contact Twitter: @ltc_chronciles Instagram: the_ltc_chronicles_podcast SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-384632250 #TheLTCChroniclesPodcast #isolationkillstoo # LTC

In this episode Susan Mills a Essential Caregive/ Advocate discussing the past year of being a caregiver to a family member in long term care during the pandemic. Bill 203: https://arpacanada.ca/news/2021/05/05/more-than-a-visitor/ https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-42/session-1/bill-203 Youtube: https://youtu.be/GgDe_jV7REg Connect: Twitter: @ltc_chronicles Instagram: @the_ltc_chronicles_podcast Soundcloud: @user-384632250 #notegoingaway #isolationkillstoo #theltcchroncilespodcast

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In this episode I will be speaking Helen Cooper (President) Elaine Watier (Resident of Oasis) about the Oasis. Oasis is a senior-driven model of aging in place, located in naturally occurring retirement communities (NORCs) The Oasis Senior Supportive Living Inc. program is designed to strengthen and sustain healthy communities of older adults by addressing important determinants of healthy aging such as isolation, nutrition, physical fitness, and sense of purpose. It was developed as an innovative solution to support aging well at home. Oasis is founded to serve older adults who, with some support, are able to live independently. It is a concept that recognizes the importance of self-determination and offers programs based on the identified needs and wishes of Oasis members. Oasis seeks to enable seniors to remain at home and age with dignity. Webiste: https://www.oasis-aging-in-place.com/ YouTube:https://youtu.be/wc9JQwzY8Qg Connect: Twitter: twitter.com/ltc_chronicles Instagram: www.instagram.com/the_ltc_chronicles Soundcloud: @user-384632250 #NORCs #humanity #theltcchroniclespodcast

In this episode we are speaking with Douglas Cartan from Seniors Social Action Ontario of the topics that are impacting Seniors in Long Term Care. Website; https://www.seniorsactionontario.com/ Petition: https://www.change.org/p/legislators-and-service-providers-give-us-home-care-alternatives-to-long-term-care Ontario Human Rights Commission: http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/news_centre/ohrc-response-letter-requesting-ohrc-inquiry-institutionalization-older-adults-ontario-ssao Youtube: https://youtu.be/NG4M0qm8djI Connect: Twitter: twitter.com/ltc_chronicles Instagram: www.instagram.com/the_ltc_chronicles Soundcloud: @user-384632250

Discussion with Family Advocate Carol D'Elisiis on her advocay work on change in New York Nursing Homes. Family Caregiver Act: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2114/committees Voices for Seniors: https://www.voicesforseniors.com/ https://www.mcknightsseniorliving.com/home/news/bill-would-establish-national-standard-for-essential-caregiver-programs/ Youtube: https://youtu.be/M5FJU4ISeIk Connect: Twitter: twitter.com/FamilyCouncils Instagram: www.instagram.com/fcca0020/ Soundcloud: @user-384632250 #notegoingaway #isolationkillstoo #theltcchroncilespodcast

On the podcast today we are speaking with Joseph Jongsma one of the owners of Caring Support. The Caring Support Platform is the brainchild of a handful of individuals who believed that they could help the healthcare system by providing a platform that matches caregivers (including PSWs, RNs, RPNs, and volunteers) to healthcare organizations. The idea began as a simple job matching site to help take the stress out of finding a new job. During the COVID-19 outbreak, the need for caregivers by healthcare organizations became very public and clear that something needed to be done. This hit some of the Caring Support team members close to home and they realized that this was the perfect time to create a helping hand. Website: https://www.caringsupport.com/ Youtube:https://youtu.be/VniHUdETvpk Connect: Twitter: ltc_chronicles Instagram: the_ltc_chronicles Soundcloud: @user-384632250 #theltcchroniclespodcast #staffhiring #caregiver

Discussion with Mary Nichols from Texas Caregivers for Compromise on the issues that the lock of family members from their loved ones in long term care and retirement homes and other congregate settings. This is a two part series of the found of Texas Caregivers for Compromise Mary Nichols and founding the group and why it is so important to ensure that Caregivers are never again separted from their loved ones in these congregate settings again. Detailing the work of advocating for caregivers to have them reunited with their loved ones in long term care and why caregivers need to be at the table as a stakeholder for issues as these. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/938614769934973/ Texas State Law: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/texas-senate-passes-bill-to-allow-essential-caregivers-access-to-long-term-care-facilities-even-in-a-pandemic/2583240/ Soundlcoud:https://soundcloud.com/user-384632250/the-ltc-chronicles-podcast-texas-caregives4compromise-mary-nichols-part-1/s-yipR4uxevWN Youtube: https://youtu.be/s5YZv9VHJBw Connect: Twitter: twitter.com/FamilyCouncils Instagram: www.instagram.com/fcca0020/ Soundcloud: @user-384632250 #notegoingaway #isolationkillstoo #theltcchroncilespodcast

Discussion with Mary Nichols from Texas Caregivers for Compromise on the issues that the lock of family members from their loved ones in long term care and retirement homes and other congregate settings. This is a two part series of the found of Texas Caregivers for Compromise Mary Nichols and founding the group and why it is so important to ensure that Caregivers are never again separted from their loved ones in these congregate settings again. Detailing the work of advocating for caregivers to have them reunited with their loved ones in long term care and why caregivers need to be at the table as a stakeholder for issues as these. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/938614769934973/ Texas State Law: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/texas-senate-passes-bill-to-allow-essential-caregivers-access-to-long-term-care-facilities-even-in-a-pandemic/2583240 Youtube: https://youtu.be/RMg2w7S7qX0 Connect: Twitter: twitter.com/FamilyCouncils Instagram: www.instagram.com/fcca0020/ Soundcloud: @user-384632250 #notegoingaway #isolationkillstoo #theltcchroncilespodcast

Discussion with Vincent Pierce the founder of Nursing Homes Lives Matter that was created during the pandemic. NHLM founder Vincent Pierce is a father, music producer, youth educator, gun violence survivor and OPEN DOORS Reality Poet. He is also a nursing home resident. In July 2020, encouraged by the groundswell of demonstrations in support for Black lives, Vince launched #NursingHomeLivesMatter in response to the COVID-19 crisis and its devastating impact on the primarily Black and Brown residents of Coler Rehabilitation & Nursing Care Center on Roosevelt Island in New York City. “During the height of the pandemic, we were left in the dark as hundreds of Covid patients were moved into our home; the infected were left in bedrooms with the uninfected; quadriplegic residents were kept in bed for days, at risk of pressure sores becoming fatal; Coler’s administration lied about dire PPE and staffing shortages and grossly underreported the number of deaths. For months, we have been cut off from family and friends and are only allowed outdoors for a few hours a day in an area defined by police tape.” Our movement seeks to protect nursing home residents and workers who have been systematically disempowered and put in harm’s way by public officials and health care administrators. Website: https://www.opendoorsnyc.org/nhlm Article: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/02/covid-has-turned-these-nursing-home-residents-into-activists-fighting-to-show-their-lives-matter/ Youtube: https://youtu.be/RMg2w7S7qX0 Connect: Twitter: twitter.com/FamilyCouncils Instagram: www.instagram.com/fcca0020/ Soundcloud: @user-384632250 #nursinghomelivesmatter #humanrights #theltcchroncilespodcast

Discussion with Jordan Schely about the all in one platform allows you to connect to loved ones much easier. Care2Talk is the best accessible mobile app solution to make secure and fast video calls. Website: https://www.care2talk.io/post/the-benefits-of-telehealth-care-during-the-pandemic Partnerships: BC Care Providers: https://bccare.ca/2021/04/new-partnership-with-care2talk-video-communication-for-seniors-in-care-homes-made-simple/ https://www.ididsomethinggoodtoday.org/ Twitter: @care2talk_io YouTube: https://youtu.be/hbyLeHekfqg Contact Twitter: @ltc_chronciles Instagram: the_ltc_chronicles_podcast SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-384632250 #TheLTCChroniclesPodcast #humanrights # LTC

Discussion with Ken Foster on business created during the pandemic that love is more contagious than COVID. Website: https://loveovercovid.com/ Twitter: @loveovercovid Article: https://globalnews.ca/news/7729719/love-over-covid-message-kingston/ Youtube: https://youtu.be/t1bwCwoTP_s Contact Twitter: @ltc_chronciles Instagram: the_ltc_chronicles_podcast SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-384632250 #TheLTCChroniclesPodcast #kingston #loveovercovid

Discussion with Carol Duek the Chair of Family Council Network 4 Advocacy on the call to actions and the changes that are required in long term care within the province of Ontario and Canada. The networking support to family councils in the Hamilton Area. WebSite:https://www.network4longtermcareadvocacy.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/petergnish/ Bill of Rights Residents: http://www.acelaw.ca/appimages/file/Residents_Rights_Insert.pdf YouTube: https://youtu.be/c_jX2nHdH04 Contact Twitter: @ltc_chronciles Instagram: the_ltc_chronicles_podcast SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-384632250 #TheLTCChroniclesPodcast #humanrights # LTC