Care for caregivers

More than one-quarter of Ontario families have been providing constant care for someone at home for more than two years. How can research help to support family caregivers? Check out this section to find out.

 

Family caregivers work at home in crowded spaces without proper equipment or training and they look after people with heavier and heavier care needs. Toronto Rehab teams of engineers, computer scientists, designers and clinicians are working together to develop innovative assistive devices and advanced technologies made specifically to help family and friends care for loved ones at home.

 

During the course of our lives, most of us will either care for someone or require care ourselves. In Canada alone, an estimated three million people make huge sacrifices to voluntarily provide care to family members, friends or neighbours.