by Prunelle | Jun 5, 2023 | Aging
79 years old woman suffering from 5 chronic diseases: high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and lung disease. Based on good practices recommandations, this patient is given 12 different medications...
by Prunelle | May 1, 2023 | Mental health
Before the 1960s, in Quebec, the fate of people with mental health challenges was imprisonment, sometimes for life, in large psychiatric institutions. It was the religious orders that ran the asylums and received state aid...
by Prunelle | Apr 11, 2023 | Mental health
Community-based mental health organizations are very important in building a social safety net. We need to have these places to gather, meet, help and help to support the community. In order to forge links...
by Prunelle | Mar 9, 2023 | Aging
Jiro has been making sushi every day for more than eighty years in a small sushi restaurant in the Ginza subway in Japan. He goes personally with his son to the fish market to choose the best sushi for the restaurant. Jiro and his son...
by Prunelle | Feb 9, 2023 | Aging
Humans are social animals ! And yet, our ways of life, especially in our Western societies, often lead to loneliness. For millennia, humans have been structured around close and constraining bonds, which...
by Prunelle | Jan 17, 2023 | Mental health
Up to 29 years old, I was operating at the top of my abilities. A healthy love relationship, several friends on whom I could count on, a promising career as an occupational therapist in mental health, and a master's degree...
by Prunelle | Dec 13, 2022 | Noel
With Christmas approaching, I wanted to write a text about a celestial figure of great importance because it unites Christians, Jews and Muslims: the angel Gabriel. His name in Hebrew means ''Man of God'', ''the strength of God'' or...
