CHSSN Health Resource Library

• Season Recap: Helping One Another
• Destination Imagination – Update from Rouyn Noranda
• Senior Wellness Centers in the Baie des Chaleurs
• The Wales Home-Therapeutic Garden
• Role of Customer services Agent for English-speaking users at the CSSS Sept-Iles
• Community Watchdog Project in Potton Township
• When I grow up (Thetford Mines)
• Yoga for all ages in the Laurentians
• Here ya go, you ol’ smoothie
• Destination Imagination (Neighbours Rouyn-Noranda)
• The York River Seniors Centre Fifty-Plus Club
  (more to come every two weeks)
  
  
• Or check out Health Check radio segments produced in 2010:
  

  - Introductory Segment

  - Educational Success: A community based approach to keeping     students in high school with Townshippers' Association.

  - Health Survival Packs on The Lower North Shore

  - A Foster Home for Grosse Isle Seniors in the Magdalen Islands

  - Collective Community Kitchen in the Outaouais

  - Senior's Health Promotion Modules with Jeffery Hale      Hospital and St. Brigid's Home.

  - Senior's Day in the Eastern Townships

  - Mental Health Telephone Workshops with AMI Quebec     through Mental Health Estrie

  - North Shore Community Association -      Cancer Awareness through Video Conferencing

  - Senior’s Day Center for Barachois in the Gaspe

  - Job Shadowing with the Megantic Community Development Corp.

  - Gaspe Recognizes World Elder Abuse Day

Let's Talk Health!  Radio Capsules

• Let's Talk Health! Pilot show on Dependencies

• Bullying

• Communication, Self-Esteem and Teens

• How to Talk to Your Kids About Sex

• Addiction and Recovery

• Online (Gaming) Addiction

• Heart Health

• Nutrition and Obesity

• Bone Health (Osteoporosis) 
  

  - Live, call-in show

  - 15-min. segment

• Colon Cancer

• Grieving and Loss

Community Health Education Program Sessions

• Clip of a videoconferencing session on Bone Health (mpeg format - 17.1 Mb) 
   
• Alzheimer's: Challenges and Support with Laura Guerschanik,
  Alzheimer Society of Montreal.
• Communication Strategies and Cognitive Stimulation
• Life History
• 101 Things to do with a Person who has Alzheimer's Disease
• Communication by Stages
• Alzheimer's Disease with Stephanie Geller
• Arthritis Revisited with Myra Siminovitch
• Body and Balance with Susan McAlpine.
• Bone Health with Myra Siminovitch 

• Senior's Rights and Wellness (Elder Abuse) podcast

• Bullying with Desiree Chaker 
• Cancer 101 with Dail Jacob 
• Caregiving at Home and in Institutions with Norma Gilbert

  -	Caregiver's Bill of Rights
  -	IUGM - in French
  -	Canadian Caregiver Coalition (CCC)
  -	Self-Evaluation Tool for Caregivers
  -	Vital Aging Bulletin - CSSS Cavendish
  -	Counselling with Caregivers
  -	Free telephone workshops with Care-Ring Voice Network

• Diabetes Type 2 with Carmella D'Avella and Gilda Bastasi
  - Presentation (ppt)
  - Presentation (ppt)  
• Fall Prevention with Dr. Nancy Mayo  
• Grieving and Loss with Dawn Cruchet  
• Hearing Loss with Lorna Dowson

  -	Hearing Loss … or
  -	Signs of Hearing Loss

• Kidneys & Bladder with Myra Siminovitch  
• Lung Health - Part I with Dail Jacob, Pivot Nurse.  
• Lung Health - Part II: Asthma, COPD, Pneumonia and Flu with Kathryn Riches.  
• Medications: Ask an Expert with Marie Botrus, Pharmacist  
• Menopause: A Hot Topic with Kelly Howarth, Jo Ann Jones and Myra Siminovitch
  - Presentation (ppt)
  - Presentation (pdf)  
• Nutrition

  -	OHSSN video: Eat Good, Feel Great

• Parkinson 101
  - Presentation (ppt)
• Prostate Cancer: A Man's Perspective with Kees Maas and Myra Siminovitch.
  - Canadian Prostate Cancer Network
  - Montreal West Island Prostate Cancer Support Group
  
• Senior's Rights and Wellness: World Elder Abuse Day 2010  
• When they go away to work: separation anxiety with Marla Yanofsky, Psychologist  

Professionals

• For Teachers and Leader Training 
• McGill Continuing Medical Education & Mini-Med  
• The Centre for Literacy - Health Literacy 

Family & Community

• Alcohol and Drugs: What Everyone Should Know
  - Center for Addiction and Mental Health
  - Canadian Aids Society  
• AMI Quebec Mental Health Tele-Workshops 
• Canada's Food Guide 
• Canadian Health Network  
• Cancer Care Online  
• Consensus Mediation Centre  
• Educaloi  
• Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development  
• Health Literacy Links
• Living Well with Cancer  
• Mini-Med and the Children's Hospital
• The Health Guide
• The MCH Trauma Web Site  
• The Montreal Children's Hospital Family Resource Library

Youth

• Sexuality and You  
• The Canadian Association for Adolescent Health

Senior's Health Promotion Workshops

1. Vision

   • 1.1 My Eyes Are Dim (Seniors Eye Problems)

   • 1.2 As the Eye Unfolds (Cataract Information Session)

2. Hearing

   • 2.1 Hearing Aids 101

3. Heart

   • 3.1 How Can You Prevent A Stroke?

   • 3.2 My Flip Flopping Heart (Irregular Heart Beat Information Session)

4. Germs & Infection Prevention

   • 4.1 Handwashing… Our Best Defence

5. First Aid

   • 5.1 Demystifying the Emergency Room Visit

   • 5.2 Basic Emergency Measures

6. Pain Management

   • 6.1 Rattle my Bones (Falls & Fractures)

   • 6.2 Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

   • 6.3 Love Your feet

7. Nutrition

   • 7.1 Vitamins – Everything You Wanted To Know… But Forgot To Ask

   • 7.2 How Well Do You Eat?

   • 7.3 Reading Food Labels

8. General

   • 8.1 Women's Checklist for Healthy Living

9. Chronic Health Challenges for Seniors and Caregivers

   • 9.1 Caregivers: When Your Love One Has Dementia

   • 9.2 Caregivers: Caring For A Loved One With Incontinence/Constipation

   • 9.3 Oral Hygiene Care for Caregivers

   • 9.4 Caring for Caregivers - Learning About My New Role

   • 9.5 Living With Chronic Pain

   • 9.6 Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)

   • 9.7 Living With COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)

   • 9.8 Living With Diabetes

   • 9.9 Living With Hypertension

   • 9.10 Living With Osteoporosis

Community Health Education Program Annual Reports

• Community Health Education Program (CHEP) 2010-2011  
• Community Health Education Program (CHEP) 2009-2010  
• Community Health Education Program (CHEP) 2008-2009  
• Telehealth Project - 2008  
• Community Radio Project - 2008  
• Telehealth Program and Follow-up Activity 2006-2007  
• Community Radio Project - 2007  

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