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Tover Magic Table Promising to harness “the power of purposeful play” through its interactive light projector, this is a gaming system designed for people with dementia and intellectual disabilities. It works via a projector mounted to the ceiling above a table where gamers sit and interact with a variety of moving projections. The games are […]
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You may be experiencing burnout and not even know it say identical twin sisters Emily and Amelia Nagoski. In this talk they dive right in to an introspective and deeply relatable conversation, in which they detail three telltale signs that stress is getting the best of you. Their book, Burnout: The secret to unlocking the stress […]
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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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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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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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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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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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Poor psychosocial working conditions  A new Institute for Work and Health study finds risks of burnout and stress greatly increased for the 1 in 10 Canadian workers who find themselves in consistently bad job environments. In occupational health and safety research, the term “psychosocial working conditions” can refer to many different things, each of which […]
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