Dementia is a devastating illness for both patients and their families. A patient with dementia has memory loss and at least one other impairment: aphasia, apraxia, agnosia, or disturbance in... Read More

Diabetes mellitus is a major metabolic disease with known poor health outcomes and significant costs to the individual and the health care system. It is one of several chronic disabling disorders on... Read More

Prior to the Second World War, highly dependent elderly people unable to live on their own received care through a number of religious orders and “poor homes” throughout Canada.[1] In BC, nursing... Read More

Today was the day I had been waiting for since I was 6 years old. Despite the heat, I wore my nicest shirt, tie, and dress pants to my preceptor’s office. All the way there I obsessed over how to... Read More

Urinary incontinence (UI) is the involuntary loss of urine. In residential care it is extremely prevalent, affecting over half of all residents.[1] Costs associated with UI have been estimated at $5... Read More