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Therapeutic recreation team at Mount Hope is ‘going places’
Innovative recreation programming earns provincial honour. When Gene Hayward steps into a virtual reality (VR) setting, he’s going places. Really going places. Gene lives with a traumatic brain injury. Earlier this year, he was among the residents selected to trial virtual leisure experiences at St...
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A stroke of gratitude
Allan Campbell shares his story of recovery at both London Health Sciences Centre and Parkwood Institute after experiencing a devastating stroke. Like any other night, Allan Campbell went to bed after a long day of work. Little did he know that at 11:45 pm, his life would forever change. No longer a...
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Machine learning could predict medication response in patients with complex mood disorders
Mood disorders like major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder are often complex and hard to diagnose, especially among youth when the illness is just evolving. This can make decisions about medication difficult. In a collaborative study by Lawson Health Research Institute, The Mind...
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Future physiotherapists make a lasting impression
A student-led physiotherapy clinic at Parkwood Institute is expanding access to locomotor training, helping patients regain mobility while giving future physiotherapists valuable hands-on experience.
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Warming hearts and spirits
Pocket hugs. Stress balls. Playing cards. Note pads and pens. Just everyday items that offer comfort, distraction and support during confusing, concerning and complicated times in people’s lives. These were just some of the goodies that filled gifts bags for patients receiving care at St. Joseph’s...
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Tender loving care
As the founder and Medical Director of St. Joseph’s Transitional and Lifelong Care (TLC) program, physiatrist Dr. Caitlin Cassidy works closely with people who have conditions that begin in childhood like cerebral palsy, spina bifida and developmental disabilities. During her residency, Dr. Cassidy...
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Making tomorrow better than today
Dr. Janet Pope has been involved in research since her early days in medical school and has been advancing new knowledge and discovery at St. Joseph’s for a quarter of a century. And in the ever-challenging world of Canadian research funding, she’s incredibly thankful to those people who generously...
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Standing up to Falls
By merging world class care with research and artificial intelligence, St. Joseph’s Health Care London is catching falls before they happen. They wreak havoc on independence and well-being, making them one Canada’s most pressing health challenges: falls. A leading cause of injury-related...
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Recharting the course of Alzheimer’s disease
“The importance of this research on the community cannot be overstated,” shares Sarah Best, Research Manager, about the work in Alzheimer’s disease happening inside the walls of St. Joseph’s Health Care London right now – projects sustained by donor funding. “Our population is aging, and the biggest...
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