In honour of Volunteer Week 2024, we wanted to profile a volunteer who has been a wonderful asset to our team for years, Janice Daitchman. She is passionate about...

Health Literacy - Knowledge is Power. Baycrest has embarked on an exciting new project to improve the health literacy of patients and families. Through this project, healthcare information on optimizing...

The whirlwind of changes Ruby Isaac has coped with since her husband’s dementia diagnosis is a journey of many highs and lows. Ruby’s whole world turned upside down when her...

The Road to Connection is a two-hour weekly program created at Baycrest for people living with mild to moderate dementia and their spouses. It weaves together three evidence-based interventions to...

MAPprogram For more than 20 years, Baycrest’s Memory and Aging Program – a clinically validated, gold standard brain health workshop – has helped more than 1,000 healthy older adults. Now, it’s...

After a cancer diagnosis, Rose Bermanski was told she had a life expectancy of three months. She moved from her retirement home to the Shirley and Philip Granovsky Palliative Care...

aidens In 2016, Aidan Solway, then-13, visited Baycrest on a mission to take pictures of members of Café Europa, a social club/program offered to clients, patients and community...

Simone-Cropped In 2016, Simone Stiermann, 67, noticed some obvious instances of forgetfulness and general confusion. Stiermann was told that she was frequently forgetting conversations with her family and...

I am sharing my story with you as a husband, caregiver and individual deeply affected by a recent experience. My 74-year-old wife was admitted to Baycrest Hospital last fall and...

A new form of resident and patient engagement is being introduced at Baycrest; one that is immersive, social, and most importantly, unaffected by the physical constraints of a healthcare setting....