We hope this newsletter finds you well. Take some time to read through the content and implement some of these tricks into your daily life. If you have feedback or suggestions on content you would like to see, please don’t hesitate to reach out and let us know at communications@alzon.ca. We would love to hear from you.
During this time, our phone lines remain open. If you need to reach our counselling staff, or have questions about programs and services, please call 416-967-5900.
We also invite you to keep checking the online portal to learn about upcoming online events and programs. You will also be able to catch up on any newsletters you may have missed.
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In this edition:
What’s happening across Ontario? Provincial social recreation programs, webinars, and more!
Give Local this Holiday Season
What does kindness mean to you? Find out during the Quest for Kindness!
Tips for Care Partners: Managing Holiday Stress
Survey: Improving Homecare for People living with Dementia in Ontario
Survey: Potential Impact of the Drug Aducanumab
Happy Holidays from the Alzheimer Society!
What's happening across Ontario? Provincial social recreation programs, webinars, and more!
Webinar: Long Distance Caregiving
When: Tuesday, December 14 | 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Explore some of the unique challenges and issues that can arise when caring from a distance, as well as identify the different ways caregivers can provide support and be involved in the person’s life.
The importance of supporting local communities, businesses, and charitable initiatives has been amplified throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
This holiday season is no different.
Celebrate the season of giving and be there for your community and local Alzheimer Society by making a special, year-end gift.
With your holiday gift, you will be giving the 250,000 people living with dementia in Ontario access the education, counselling, and social recreation programs they rely on most.
Make a gift by midnight on December 31 and you’ll be able to get a 2021 tax receipt!
What does kindness mean to you? Find out during the Quest for Kindness!
While kindness means something different to each of us, it is a universal language that everyone understands.
To the Alzheimer Society of Ontario, kindness is all about making our connections matter by doing good and creating friendlier communities for those impacted by dementia.
There are so many ways that you can help make your community a friendlier place for those living with dementia! The easiest way? Registering for the Quest for Kindness and making at least 30 kind-nections from January 1 to 29!
Tips for Care Partners: Managing Holiday Stress & Celebration Ideas
Making the holidays meaningful for a person living with dementia, as well as creating an environment that minimizes the mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion that comes along with being a care partner can be a challenge, and even more so this year with the pandemic. The holidays can bring additional feelings of stress, so to help you create meaningful holiday celebrations for the person you care for, and help you feel less overwhelmed, we have put together some tips that you can implement this holiday season!
Do only the occasions and traditions that are most important to you and your family like watching holiday movies, listening to holiday music, or decorating cookies!
Keep celebrations short.
Involve the person living with dementia in the preparations and decorating.
The Alzheimer Society of Canada is looking for individuals living with Alzheimer's disease, including mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and individuals who have been treated with Aduhelm (aducanumab) to talk about their experience.
The Alzheimer Society will be making a submission to CADTH to ensure that the voices of people with lived experience are represented and considered during the review process. We would like to speak with people with Alzheimer's disease or MCI and people who have treatment experience with Aduhelm (aducanumab).
You do not need to live in Canada to respond to this survey.
The English survey is available here.
The French survey is available here.
Specific caregiver surveys are linked within each of the surveys. Please complete this survey by December 16.
The data will be used in submissions to the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health and the Institut national d’excellence en santé et en services sociaux.
Happy Holidays from the Alzheimer Society!
From our family at the Alzheimer Society of Ontario to yours, we wish you the very best this Holiday season! Thank you for your dedicated support this year.
People living with Alzheimer’s and dementia are especially vulnerable at this time, if you are able to, please consider supporting the essential services and programs that benefit this community.
Our mailing address is:
20 Eglinton Ave. W., 16th floor
Toronto, ON M4R 1K8 communications@alzon.ca
