Vignette Name |
Need |
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Alternate Suggestion |
What could be created |
Mark |
He wants a caregiver organization, specific to each province, that gather annually and through this group can lobby for rights and services. |
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- Suggestion box where caregivers could offer opinions to politicians, AT designers, etc.
- Website that offers information that is geographically relevant, where the caregiver could enter in a postal code so that local services are identified
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Peyton |
Peyton would like to see more community support, more of a ‘neighbor helping neighbor’ environment where community members are aware of individuals in their community that may require additional assistance with activities such as lawn care and snow shoveling and then they volunteer their time to help out. |
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- Free cleaning done by students offered to all students.
- Huddol - a platform to provide info and referrals to services and places to get products
- In Quebec, some municipalities offer help for housekeeping for free, and some municipalities will assist with snow removal.
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- A system like a Craigslist where people can post needs, or create a Facebook group for this purpose
- Work with community in a set region to get to know neighbours and have a discussion about what people can offer each other.
- Projects set up via municipalities to section off areas that could meet and determine resources and how services and support could be swapped
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Pandora |
Pandora needs a counselling service at no charge, because she does a lot of caregiving for her parents. |
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Portia |
Portia needs help finding a way to increase access to FaceTime or Skype in her mother’s personal care home, so that she can be more connected with her loved one via technology. |
Portia is advocating to have more access to FaceTime and Skype in care homes, but in the mean time, she is phoning her mom. |
Using products like Alexa, Echo, and Echo show, which have voice recognition and will take commands
Smart phone training so the care recipient can use FaceTime. Google Hangouts is another system that is simple to use
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Design a phone number to call about ATs, which could potentially reduce medical problems
- Create a product similar to Amazon Echo that's focused solely on communication so that it's simpler. (eg. "call my husband")
- ATSelect
- MOvIT Plus (like a hotline)
Tech training programs online or at seniors' centres
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Portia needs help advocating for promoting incontinence acceptance, as her mom dislikes using a diaper due to the social stigma. |
Suggests technology to increase acceptance and advocacy – ex. through TV Ads. |
- Find out the exact problem (ex: bladder vs bowel) instead of just dealing with incontinence problems
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Pascale |
Pascale needs help advocating for her husband. He tends to do whatever the doctor says, despite it not being the best for her husband. She needed to advocate for her parents when they were not getting a procedure they needed. |
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- Peer support for certain things
- Conference where they teach people about disease, symptoms, and management
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Pilar |
Pilar needs help advocating for increased flexibility in the bureaucratic system. Different care aids show up every time, and she does not like this. |
She is on the wait list to participate in a corporation where she can hire care aids, have more control over payroll, what the care aids do, and consistency. |
- Live in caregiver will give more stability
- Montreal has agencies with foreign caregivers, who are less likely to leave
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- Rating system for different care aids in the private healthcare system
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Priya |
Priya needs help finding more resources similar to respite, because respite is usually full. The other option is private care, which is unaffordable. |
Somebody comes in during the day to help Priya out three times a week, but she cannot have someone come over every day, as it is expensive. |
- Day problems offer community-like respite
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- Public funding
- Better resources available for CGs or volunteer programs (have to be well trained volunteers)
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Petra |
Petra wants a caregiver relaxation group that meets up at a time that fits her schedule. There is one in the local newspapers in the evening, but she can only make it if it is in the morning. |
Petra recognized when she was burnt out doing her professional caregiving (paid), as well as informal caregiving of the friend she currently takes care of. She stayed at home for one month before going back to professional caregiving.
Petra understands she has to pace herself in order to avoid burnout now. |
- Counsellor therapist to put together a group
- Onlien groups like Huddol to bring caregivers together
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