Caregivers

The need to provide caregiving can arise due to a partner’s injury or disease, or because of parents’ aging. Below, you can find a number of resources that hopefully will be helpful to you in your journey, for whomever you provide care. For all caregivers, however, it is vitally important to take care of yourself. Without taking care of yourself, it will be difficult if not eventually impossible due to fatigue, exhaustion, and caregiver burnout to take care of your loved one. Therefore, one of the links below takes you to the ‘Caregiver Bill of Rights’!

Caregiving after Brain Injury (Ontario Brain Injury Association)
BrainStreams– BC Caregiver groups
Caring for someone who is ill– Government of Canada site that provides information about financial and other benefits for caregivers
Family Caregiver Support Groups (BC, Canada)
Benefits Finder and more– Government of Canada site
Caring for Seniors – included on this page are Government of Canada and BC sites
Caregiver Bill of Rights
Stories for Caregivers with Jann Arden -stories about challenges caring for a spouse

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Helping People Lead Productive Lives

Heike @ Mind your Brain is proud to offer Cognitive Rehabilitation Treatment within her ‘Practice of Professional Psychological Services’. Services include therapeutic care, emotional counselling, and education for:

Cognitive aging/ cognitive health
People with acquired brain injury.

In general, Cognitive Rehabilitation refers to a set of non-invasive and evidence-based techniques and interventions intended to alleviate cognitive (e.g. memory) difficulties by improving performance in cognitive and functional areas, thereby improving a client’s quality of life.

Acquired Brain
Injury

Conditions in which Cognitive Rehabilitation Principles can be and have been utilized successfully include:

Traumatic Brain Injury
Brain Tumor
Chemobrain
Anoxic Brain Injury (e.g. drowning)
Encephalopathy

Cognitive Aging

Conditions in which Cognitive Rehabilitation Principles can be and have been successfully utilized:

Pathological Aging (dementia, mild cognitive impairment)
Neurodegenerative Diseases (e.g. Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis)
Medical/ Neurological conditions (e.g. Stroke)
Healthy Cognitive Aging

Caregivers

Helping People Lead Productive Lives

Acquired Brain Injury

Cognitive Aging

Acquired Brain
Injury