
Shawna McGhan
@shawnamcghan
Innovating primary health care. Influencing change for healthy communities and a more compassionate world. Tweets my own.
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15-10-2012 20:49:07
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Amazing stories from caregivers as they rejuvenate in the wild. Love these! How might we help caregivers rejuvenate? #NationalCaregiverDay Mike Lang, PhD storiesforcaregivers.com/series/caregiv…



Grab a cuppa & pen & lean in 👇 Powerful Qs & inspiration from Cormac Russell: How do we raise a village? What's the community alternative to services? What are our health creating capacities? What does it mean to think of ourselves as health creators? youtu.be/i2xafy8tmcU






2 ways of knowing: 1 studies 2. Stories. Most studies lead to more data; stories are the seeds of social change. Cold data is mostly devoid of meaningful stories abt specific communities. In contrast, warm data (cf nora bateson) seeks to reveal local meaning. No data w/o stories.




Overly flexible connective tissue causes problems in joints and throughout the body − and is often missed by doctors theconversation.com/overly-flexibl… via The Conversation U.S.

This is the reason your ER doctors are leaving. You don’t have a family doctor, and you can’t get an admission bed. So you end up waiting and waiting in the ER for a physician who might not be able to help much, by Brian Wall thestar.com/opinion/this-i… Toronto Star Raghu Venugopal MD

#NationalCaregiverDay Laurel's experience as a caregiver - watch the short video youtu.be/JnlH2gHQ0o4?si… via YouTube #FamilyCaregivers Caregivers Alberta Patients 4 Change jasneetparmar @keetcanada Zachary Weeks👨🦼♿️ Shawna McGhan Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence FamilyCaregivers


Sharon Anderson takes the stage to provide us with a framework to action better supports for +inclusion of caregivers in health and social care. Her team developed a competency framework+education4providers. “Caregiving is a social determinant of health.” FamilyCaregivers #ICIC24


.@richardmeade13 makes the vital point that informal carers make a massive contribution to health and care and need to be an essential part of any major planned intervention. Hear hear!! 👏👏👏 #ICIC24 IFIC Updates


#ICIC24 Closing Ceremony - Jodeme Goldhar 🇨🇦🌐 and Walter Wodchis share the themes for the upcoming #NACIC24 Conference which will be held in Calgary, Alberta October 2024 - abstract submission is open now integratedcarefoundation.org/events/nacic24…! #IFICCanada


And as 1 conference comes to a close we look forward to #NACIC24 Creating health with #integratedcare Jodeme Goldhar 🇨🇦🌐 Walter Wodchis in Calgary Canada in October! Can’t wait!

