Plan for Living – Will Illness Destroy your Retirement?
We close our eyes and we dream. We dream about foreign travel and exotic locations. We dream of a quiet country home and peaceful surroundings. We dream of a stress-free lifestyle and idyllic family life. Are these visions mutual fund commercials? No. Retirement dreams. Oh they may be idealistic, but they’re ours, and it doesn’t seem to matter if you’re in your 20s, 40s or 60s, we all dream of a retirement free of day-to-day pressures and oodles of time and opportunities to pursue all those dreams and leisure activities we’ve delayed doing. We all believe that we will lead better lives when we ‘retire’.
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Discharge Planning - The Facts
Discharge planning is a process that includes identification, assessment, goal setting, planning, implementation, coordination and evaluation. Social workers engaged in discharge planning coordinate discharges for patients by collaborating with the patient, family, health care team and community resources.
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Assisted Living in British Columbia
Assisted Living Residences provide accommodation and varying levels of care and supportive services in a home-like, residential setting. Services typically include meals, social and recreational programs, 24-hour emergency response, laundry and housekeeping services, supervision or administration of medications and varying degrees of assistance with the activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, and routines.
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Tips on Choosing Long-Term Care in Alberta
Admission to the continuing care system in Alberta, which includes long term care centres, is based on a functional assessment of the individual's need, using the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI). The Single Point of Entry (SPE) process, which is currently in use, was developed to provide a single point of access to individuals seeking facility or community-based long-term care...
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