Course explores holistic needs of those in care February 14, 2021
Personally and professionally, Julie Turenne-Maynard sees daily the loneliness and isolation amongst an aging population living at home or in long-term care facilities across Canada.
“I’ve got a mother-in-law who is in a long-term care facility and for many months couldn’t really see anybody,” said Turenne-Maynard, executive director of the Catholic Health Association of Manitoba (CHAM). “You hear about a lot of the residents that are really suffering from broken heart syndrome because they just long for the ability to touch and to hold and to have conversations with more than just essential caregivers.”