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Heart & Stroke Foundation - Health eTools
- With a Health eTools account you get access to our free tools to help you decrease your risk of heart disease and stroke.
Heart & Stroke Foundation - Get Healthy
- Online resources to learn more about preventing heart conditions and stroke.
Heart & Stroke Foundation - A Patient’s Guide to Canadian Best Practice Recommendations for Stroke Care
- Provides patients and their families with practical information drawn from the recommendations.
Living Well with COPD
- Designed to help you to learn and adopt, with your health professional, healthy lifestyle behaviours and obtain necessary skills to better manage your illness.
Living Well with COPD Learning Materials
- Offers a list of modules, brochures and pamphlets exclusively provided for patients with COPD and their loved ones and specifically designed to help manage the illness and obtain a better quality of life.
The Lung Association: Lung Diseases A - Z
- Provides an overview of COPD including symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and more.
The Lung Association: Breathworks Program
- Offers a list of fact sheets and brochures on the Breathworks Program in both English and French.
UnlockFood.ca: Heart Health
- A consumer health website and call centre with a special focus on nutrition. Registered Dietitians provide information on topics including healthy eating, healthy weights and disease prevention.
French Language Resources and Information
French Language Library
- This page is your starting point to the French Language Services Information and Resources on SouthWesthealthline.ca, including listings of health and community services offered in the French language, additional informational resources, career opportunities listing French language skills, and how to make SouthWesthealthlhine.ca the go-to resource for French language services information.
French Language Services Toolkit
- This toolkit supports all health service providers in implementing and delivering quality services in French. It includes promotional items such as signage, identification badges, lanyards and an interpretation guide to help providers offer French language services in a proactive way.
List of Identified Health Service Providers for the Provision of French Language Services
- London is a designated region under the French Language Services Act. This document lists organizations that have been identified in the South West LHIN to provide services in French, some of which have francophone-specific programs, and others that are working toward developing an active offer of French Language Services.
Healthy Living
The College of Family Physicians of Canada
- A database of resources for helpful information about healthy living.
Group Exercise and Falls Prevention Classes
- Seniors in the South West now have improved access to exercise and falls prevention classes. The South West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) selected a number of Community Support Service providers to offer these classes throughout the region. Check back regularly as more locations are added.
UnlockFood.ca
- A site that aims to help you improve your health and quality of life through healthy eating. It provides easy-to-use nutrition information to help you make healthier food choices.
Patient/Client Pamphlets
Choosing Wisely Canada
- A campaign to help clinicians and patients engage in conversations about unnecessary tests and treatments and make smart and effective choice to ensure high-quality care.
Self-Management Resources
South West Self-Management Program
- This website provides resources to support clients, caregivers and health care professionals with self-management.
Indigenous Resources
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End-of-Life and Palliative Care Resources
Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association
- An association advancing and advocating for quality end-of-life/hospice palliative care in Canada, including work in public policy, education and awareness.
Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association, Speak Up
- A website that includes guides and workbooks about Advance Care Planning.
Canadian Virtual Hospice
- Provides support and personalized information about palliative and end-of-life care to patients, family members, health care providers, researchers and educators.
Hospice Palliative Care Ontario
- Provides leadership on behalf of its members by informing policy and promoting awareness, education, knowledge transfer and best practices in the pursuit of quality hospice palliative care in Ontario.
South West Hospice Palliative Care Network
- An alliance of community agencies, hospitals, long-term care homes, and other stakeholders who are all committed to continuously improving hospice palliative care services.
Health Equity Tool
Health Equity for All Tool
- An online tool that helps providers offer programs, services and activities better for all who access them.
Additional Resources
Assess and Restore
- An online resource that helps health service providers in the South West LHIN find health services and programs based on a patient's Assessment Urgency Algorithm (AUA).
Behavioural Supports Ontario
- Provides information about behavioural changes, BSO-related health services and programs, and regional events and resources for patients, caregivers, and health service providers.
South West Regional Wound Care Program
- A toolkit that contains skin, wound and ostomy care related resources for health care professionals and members of the public in the South West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN).
Best Advice Guide: Social Determinants of Health
- Provides family physicians with concrete steps on how to consider and improve patients’ social determinants of health (SDoH), including a backgrounder on SDoH and suggested clinical, community, and population-level interventions.