Web Resources
The following are useful Canadian and international caregiving websites and government sites of interest on health services and resources.
Caregiving - Canada:
Caregiving – United States:
- Care Guide – provides information to families to understand, plan and manage care for their elderly loved one.
- The Caregiver’s Handbook – Assisting Both the Caregiver and the Elderly Care Receiver – this 9-part online posting of the The Caregiver’s Handbook includes a lot of very useful information.
- Caregiver.com (Today’s Caregiver Magazine) – a provider of information, support and guidance for family and professional caregivers.
- Caregiving.com – Helping you help aging relatives – includes down-to-earth helpful articles, online support groups and blogs, and advice in response to your questions.
- Caring Today – offers practical advice and sound advice to family and friend caregivers in dealing with the issues involved in providing care for family and/or aging parents. It features gear and gadgets, and health and nutrition information, plus help with long-term financial and legal planning. Caring Today magazine also offers support and inspiration to the caregiver through shared stories and ways to keep life in balance.
- Children of Aging Parents – a non-profit, charitable organization whose mission is to assist caregivers of the elderly or chronically ill with reliable information, referrals and support, and to heighten public awareness that the health of the family and friend caregivers is essentially to ensure quality care of the nation’s growing elderly population.
- ElderCare Online – Comprehensive library and online support groups for people caring for aging loved ones.
- Empowering Caregivers – a comprehensive site with articles, expert columns, newsletter, emotional and spiritual support, journal exercises to help caregivers process issues they face, spotlights, resources, chats, forums, healing circle and much more.
- Family Caregiver Alliance – a non-profit agency that has been a public voice for caregivers and provides education, services, research and advocacy. One of the largest and oldest organizations in the United States devoted solely to caregivers, FCA and its National Center on Caregiving offer programs at local, state, and national levels.
- Health Politics with Dr. Magee – a weekly internet-based program, supported by the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative, offering practical advice on what we need to do to make our health care system work more effectively for all of us. This free program includes a short video commentary by health care leader Mike Magee, MD, a downloadable slide presentation, and a detailed transcript discussing the importance of recognizing the needs of the “people caring for the people” and what our health care system as well as other family members can do.
- Net of Care – Information and resources for caregivers.
- Strength for Caring – website created by Johnson and Johnson consumer products company. Many creative and proactive tips for caregivers.
Caregiving – International
VCH Health Resources
More Health Resources
- BC Health Authorities
- BC Ministry of Health: Home and Community Care – provides information on a range of health care and support services for eligible residents who have acute, chronic, palliative or rehabilitative health care needs.
- BC Ministry of Health: Home and Community Health Guide (PDF File)
- BC NurseLine (through HealthLink BC) – puts you in touch with a Registered Nurse who will answer your questions about symptoms, health concerns, recommended course of action, when to see a health professional and further health resources – 24 hour line.
- Lower Mainland: 604.215.4700; Toll-free: 1.866.215.4700
- Deaf and hearing impaired: Toll-free: 1.866.TTY.4700
- Canadian Health Network (CNH) (Now Public Health Agency of Canada) – a national, non-profit, bilingual web-based health information service. CHN’s goal is to help Canadians find the information they’re looking for on how to stay healthy and prevent disease. This network of health information providers includes the Public Health Agency of Canada, Health Canada and national and provincial/territorial non-profit organizations, as well as universities, hospitals, libraries and community organizations.
- Dial-a-Dietitian – is a free nutrition information line available to British Columbians in four languages: English, Cantonese, Mandarin and Punjabi.
- Lower Mainland: 604.732.9191
- Toll-free: 1.800.667.3438
- Health Canada – link to federal government’s health website.
- Health Canada – Seniors Health
