Health & Wellness Information and Resources
At Baycrest, we believe it is important for everyone to have access to reliable health information. This helps clients and families make informed decisions about their care.
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Caregiver Support
Learn more about information, strategies and guidance that can support caregivers.
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Dementia and Memory
Information and support for dementia care and memory health
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End of Life and Palliative Care
Learn more about advance care planning, palliative care, and grief and bereavement support.
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General Health and Well-Being
Learn more about general health, including healthy aging, brain health, spiritual care and physical wellness.
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Mental Health
Learn more about mental health including late-life depression, social isolation and tips for finding support.
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Learn more about information, strategies and guidance that can support caregivers.
Baycrest webinars (online seminars)
Caregiving
Being a caregiver for someone with dementia
How to prepare for being a caregiver for someone with dementia
Caregiving challenges of dementia
Information about the behavioural and psychological challenges
Caregiver group therapy
Learn more about group therapy for those caring for someone with dementia
Caregiving is difficult
Supportive information on preparation, self-care and depression
Caregivers: Self-care helps you cope
Caregiver tips: Coping, balance and respite
Baycrest Quick-Response Caregiver Tool ™
The Baycrest Quick-Response Caregiver Tool was created to help caregivers/care partners respond to challenging behaviours expressed by persons living with dementia.
Caregiver Support and Services
C-CAN Tool®
The aim of this self-assessment tool is to offer you insights and help you to identify your needs
Baycrest@Home
A service to prepare and support family caregivers of older adults experiencing declining cognitive health
Caregiver services
Helpful listing of caregiver services at Baycrest
Cogniciti Caregiver Centre
Read tips and advice on how to be the most supportive care giver possible while also taking care of yourself
Family Caregiving innovations
Information about the Koschitzhy Support Centre for Family Caregivers and Older Adults at Baycrest
Caregiver Support eLearning Modules
Caregiver Support Module 1
This eLearning module will help you to understand the difficult work of caregivers and it describes factors that can influencethe experience.
Caregiver Support Module 2
This eLearning module will help you have a supportive conversation with a caregiver.
Caregiver Support Module 3
This eLearning module will share some tips on how caregivers can ask for and get the support they need.
Bespoke Caregiver Module 1
A learning activity to help caregivers increase their ability to provide dementia care at home.
Family mentor program
Medication Management for Caregivers of People with Dementia eLearning Modules
Module 1: Causes and Treatments of Dementia
This interactive animations explains the causes and treatment of dementia.
Module 2: List of Medications
Learn information on dementia specific medications, their benefits, time to see benefits, side effects, when to take actionand how to take the medication.
Module 3: What would you do?
In this activity you will reflect on how to respond to common situations related to monitoring and managing medications.
Module 4: Tools and Tips
This activity provides different tools and tips on how to simplify medication taking.
Products, Manuals and Guides
Dementia: A caregiver's guide
Practical tips and strategies when caring for a person with dementia
Goal Management Training products
GMT - program tools for people experiencing executive function impairment
Learning the ropes for living with MCI program
Information and tools for program participants
Manuals and Guides
Supportive information and tools for caregivers
Memory and Aging program products
Information and tools for program participants
The Memory Link Handbook
A memory intervention method for acquired brain injury.
The Memory and Brain Health Program
Tools for program facilitators.
Dementia and Memory
Information and support for dementia care and memory health
Baycrest Memory Clinic
Brain Health registry
Brain training program
Ask the Experts
Brain Health Assessment
Smart Tracker
Memory and aging
Memory loss and Dementia
Baycrest Quick-Response Caregiver Tool ™
The Baycrest Quick-Response Caregiver Tool was created to help caregivers/care partners respond to challenging behaviours expressed by persons living with dementia.
Is memory loss dementia?
Dr. Morris Freedman talks about how your provider finds out if memory loss is dementia
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
Learning the ropes for living with mild cognitive impairment
A webinar
Learning the ropes for Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) program
A program designed to improve cognitive health
Learning the ropes for living with MCI program products
Resources for program participants
Living with MCI
How to order this comprehensive book on MCI; find helpful worksheets from the book
Neuropsychology and Cognitive health
What is Dementia?
Is memory loss dementia?
Dr. Freedman: Information on the connection between memory loss and dementia
Dementia resources from around the world
International collection of resources for people with dementia
Reliable dementia associations
Informational links that explain dementia from around the world
What is dementia?
Dr. Freedman talks about dementia
BPSD (Responsive behaviours): Assessment and treatment
Get involved in brain health research
Podcasts
Young-Onset Dementia (Early-Onset Dementia)
Prevention
Risk Factors
Types
Signs and symptoms, stages and diagnosis
Signs, symptoms and stages
Informational links: What to look for; How dementia is diagnosed: What to expect
Dementia diagnosis
Information on how dementia is diagnosed
First steps after diagnosis
Resources to help individuals and caregivers after a dementia diagnosis
Aphasia
Communcation challenges and dementia: Aphasia
Anosognosia
When someone with dementia does not know they have dementia
Dementia information in other languages
Dementia: Safety issues
Dementia support programs
Information for caregivers
Ambiguous loss
Information about dementia and feelings of personal loss
Baycrest@Home
A service to prepare and support family caregivers of older adults experiencing declining cognitive health
Caring at home
Support for families chosing to care for a person with dementia at home
Cogniciti Caregiver Centre
Read tips and advice on how to be the most supportive care giver possible while also taking care of yourself.
BPSD (Responsive behaviours): Quick response caregiver tool
Help for caregivers managing responsive behaviours
Caregivers: The challenges of dementia
Ways to deal with the challenges of dementia
Caregivers: Supporting yourself
Helpful information for those caring for people with dementia.
Caring for yourself
Links to help you as a caregiver for a person with dementia
Dementia: A caregiver's guide
Practical tips and strategies when caring for a person with dementia
Educate yourself: Preparing to be a caregiver
Caregiving challenges: Preparation and involving caregivers
Honouring broken tablets
A Jewish response to dementia
Peter's story: BPSD (Responsive behaviours): A caregivers experience
A caregivers experience with responsive behaviours
Providing care
Informational links about providing care to those living with dementia
Self-care helps you cope
Balancing care for yourself so you can care for another: Respite and group therapy
What are Responsive behaviours?
Models for BPSD (Responsive behaviours)
Types of BPSD (Responsive behaviours)
Apathy
Dr. Robert Madan offers helpful information on apathy: Ways to manage it, with or without medication.
Sexual disinhibition
Dr. David Conn: Helpful information on how someone with dementia may act out sexually
Types of responsive behaviours
Dr. Robert Madan talks about the symptoms of dementia and responsive behaviours
BPSD (Responsive behaviours) in Long-term care
BPSD (Responsive behaviours): Assessment and treatment
BPSD (Responsive behaviours): Medications
Medications
Dr. Sid Feldmann talks about the different types of medications and risks
Antidepressants
Medications used for responsive behaviours
Risk and benefits of anti-psychotic medications
Dr. Conn and Dr. Feldman talk about anti-psychotic medications for people living with dementia
BPSD (Responsive behaviours): Treatment and management
Antipsychotic medications
Important information on how dementia is treated and managed with medications
Medication treatment for behaviours
Dr. David Conn talks about medication for responsive behaviours
Treatment without medications
Information on dementia care options, such as music, dance and art therapy.
Treatment and management options
Information about dementia care -medications and behaviour management
End of Life and Palliative Care
Learn more about advance care planning, palliative care, and grief and bereavement support.
End of Life and Palliative Care
Advance care planning (ACP) (brochure)
How to plan for your future health care and treatment
Making your health wishes known
Helpful information on advance care planning and what you want
Your wishes matter
Information on how to make an advance care plan (ACP)
Grief and Bereavement
Coping with the death of a spouse
Supportive help to prepare and care for yourself
End of life
Information on and support at end of life
From death through burial
Supportive information during a difficult time
Grief, bereavement and complicated grief
Dr. Cindy Grief talks about grief, bereavement, depression
Life after life
Spiritual care: Does our soul survive after death?
Shomer
Support when death is imminent
Spiritual and religious care
Spiritual support at Baycrest
Taking time to mourn your loss
Helpful information about grief, mourning, and rituals
Talking to our children about death
Supportive information to help children understand and cope
When someone you love is dying
Supportive information about coping with death and dying
Yahrzeit and Yizhor
Jewish memorial prayers
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)
Palliative care
End of Life planning: Spiritual Care
Jewish resources about end of life, dying, death and mourning
Jewish hospice
Information on hospice care: To live, hope and heal
Palliative care services
A list of palliative care services from Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto,ON. (©2013)
Shirley and Philip Granovsky Palliative Care Unit
Information about the unit, admission, and the role of the SDM
General Health and Well-Being
Learn more about general health, including healthy aging, brain health, spiritual care and physical wellness.
General Health and Well-Being
Aging
Baycrest healthcare professionals
Baycrest Inpatient Hospital Services
Complex Continuing Care (CCC)
Learn about the program , goals of care and application proc...
Complex Continuing Care (CCC) brochure
Information about this important program for older adults
Inpatient Rehabilitation
Learn more about the program, goals of care and application process
Inpatient Psychiatry
Learn about the program, admission process and length of stay
Palliative Care
Learn about the program, goals of care and the application process
Baycrest programs and services
Baycrest webinars (online seminars)
Books and Multimedia
Cognitive Rehabilitation
Goal Management Training (GMT)
An evidence-based program for executive function rehabilitation.
Goal Management Training Products
Materials for therapists administering the GMT program.
Goal Management Training website
A source for more information about GMT.
Memory Link Brochure
A program for people with moderate to severe memory impairment
Classes and Events
Fall Prevention Program
Information about this helpful class and how to take part
Memory and Aging Program
Information about this in-person or online training program and who to call
Memory and Aging Online
Memory and aging online. Information about our self-guided e-learning memory program.
Clinics at Baycrest
Cogniciti
Ask the Experts
Experts from the Cogniciti team answer your questions on brain health and memory
Cogniciti Brain Health Assessment tool
Check your brain health with this easy assessment tool
Cogniciti - Brain Health registry
Be first in line to connect with new brain health research studies
Cogniciti Brain health workshops
Cogniciti Brain health workshops
Cogniciti - Brain Health stories
Find out what others are saying about brain health and Cogniciti's workshops
Cogniciti - Regular exercise and brain health
Read about the link between brain health and exercise
Culture and Arts at Baycrest
Hearing and Hearing Loss
Communication Strategies for Use with Patients with Hearing Loss
Learn how to improve the hearing experience and use visual cues
Hearing Services
Information about the Audiology program services
Hearing is a social sense
How an audiologist can help with hearing loss
Managing your hearing loss
Information on this rehabilitation course
Tinnitus: Audiologists can help
Fact sheet with useful information
Health literacy roadmap
Living at Baycrest
Manuals, Guides and Checklists
Apotex admission checklist
Preparing you for a move to the Apotex Centre, Jewish Home for the Aged
Apotex Residents Handbook
A helpful resoruce for new residents
Manuals and Guides
A collection of useful resources from Baycrest
Welcome to the Baycrest Hospital guide
Useful information for patients and families
Memory and aging
Memory and Aging (brochure)
Information on the Baycrest Memory and Aging brain health workshop
Memory and Aging Program products
Tools for program facilitators
Memory and Aging Online
Memory and aging online. Information about our self-guided e-learning memory program.
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
Nutrition for the brain
Brain Health Food Guide
Helpful, printable information about foods that support brain health
Book preview: 'Mindful'
Delicious recipes for brain health from this useful book
Cogniciti - Brain health recipes
Healthy recipes and resources to help you maintain your brain health as you age
Cogniciti - Eating habits and brain health
Healthy eating habits to help you maintain your brain health as you age
Cogniciti Smart Tracker tool
Keep track of your overall health by monitoring sleep, diet and excercise
Cogniciti - Stress and brain health
Tips and videos to manage your stress and improve your brain health
Program and Workshops
Memory Link (brochure)
A program for people with moderate to severe memory impairment
Memory and Aging (brochure)
Information on the Baycrest Memory and Aging brain health workshop
Learning the Ropes for Living with MCI program
A program designed to improve cognitive health
Goal Management Training (GMT)
An evidence-based, online brain-training program
Publications
Spirituality and Spiritual Care
Baycrest Spiritual Care
Information about the services provided and how to contact the team
Chaplain services
Information about how to contact the on-call Baycrest chaplaincy service
Estrangement
Healing estrangment in our family relationships
Facing cancer as a family
Helpful information when facing an unexpected diagnosis
Finding a way to forgive
Supportive information about forgiveness
Finding help
Information on psycotherapy, pastoral counseling and spiritual direction
Life after life
Spiritual care: Does our soul survive after death?
Spiritual strength
Finding spiritual strength in pain or illness
Yearning for God
Spiritual care: Searching for God's presence
Support programs
Adult Day Centres
Information about Baycrest's dynamic senior centres
Adult Day Program
About the program activities, eligibility and fees
Behavioural Support for Seniors program (BSSP)
About the program, services and how to get a referal
Integrated Community Care Team (ICCT)
Information about the team and how to get a referal
Programs, clinics and services at Baycrest
Find one that is right for you or a family member
Seniors Support program
Useful information about this important program
Tips for Good Health
Virtual care
Before your virtual care appointment
What to expect during your virtual care appointment
During your virtual care appointment
What to do after your virtual care appointment
After your virtual care appointment
What to do after your virtual care appointment
Mental Health
Learn more about mental health including late-life depression, social isolation and tips for finding support.
Late-life depression
Causes and risks
Signs and symptoms
Treatment
Community outpatient model for the treatment of depression
Learm more about the model and get a copy of the manual
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Dr. Matthew Robillard talks about ECT treatment for severe depression
Late-life depression: Treatment
Helpful information about the many treatments for depression: Dr. Robert Madan
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is an effective treatment for depression: Dr. Robert Madan
Medications
Depression in long-term care
Depression, suicide and self-harm
Grief, bereavement and depression
Patient Stories
Mental health during a pandemic
Mental Health services at Baycrest
Ambulatory Mental Health Clinic
Who can make an appointment; how to ask your doctor for a referral
Baycrest Centre for Mental Health
Learm more about the Centre and the services provided
Community Behavioural Support Outreach Team
Frequently asked questions for caregivers and families
Geriatric Psychiatry Community Service (GPCS)
Service information; eligibility; how to get a referral
Inpatient Psychiatry at Baycrest
Learn more about the program and its goals
Outpatient Mental Health Program
Information about the program and how to ask your doctor for a referal
Telepsychiatry Service
Psychiatric care by videoconference: For older adults living outside the GTA
Transitional Behavioural Support Unit (T BSU)
More about the program, access and referals