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Adaptive Living

Tips and
Tricks

Ways to maximize the quality of life through equipment and supportive care.

Tips and Tricks

Assistive Devices

Transportation

Assistive Devices

I AM ALS

This website offers practical advice to patients and insight on how to adapt to living with ALS.

Caregiver with Patient

A Life Story Foundation (ALS)

The A Life Story Foundation shares patients stories and video montages of beneficial tricks to help those diagnosed with ALS.

Passive and Assistive Range of Motion Exercises

A list of passive and assistive range of motion exercises are shared with picture descriptors to follow on a daily basis and to relieve stiffness.

Patient and Nurse

ALS Association

This website provides a list of easy to chew breakfast, soup, dinner, snack, smoothie and dessert recipes for patients with ALS.

Digital Recipe

Suggestions made by patients and cargivers

1. Make a schedule for friends and family to spend time with their loved one with ALS. It gives their caregiver a bit of time to themselves and allows friends and family to show their support.

2. Food supplements (such as Boost) can be covered by provincial coverage. It requires a prescription and a nutrition form signed by the doctor.

Adaptive Clothing and Make up

A guide to adaptive fashion developed by Dr. Colleen O’Connell and Team is attached, providing adaptive clothing, make up, hair products and footwear.

Clothing Boutique

Medical Transportation in Outaouais and Ontario

TSMO provides patient transfers from hospitals, residences, and nursing homes 7 days a week from 6 am to 9 pm to patients in the Ottawa region.

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Travelling with a Wheelchair Guide

Things to consider when travelling with a wheelchair. The guide attached, developed by Dr. Colleen O’Connell and Team, will detail all important considerations when travelling by air.

Airplane Wing

Eastern Ottawa Resource Center

EORC, a non-profit organization, is offering transportation, food services, caregiver support, and others in the Eastern Ottawa region (Orleans) to senior adults with a physical disability.

Tray of Food

Priority Patient Transfer Service

Provide transportation services to institutional clients and residential clients in the Ottawa area from Deep River and Barry's Bay to Cornwall and Hawkesbury.

Wheelchair

BraunAbility

BraunAbility sells mobility vehicles with the help of financial aid to allow an easy way of transportation.

Emergency Vehicles

EyeGaze Incorporation

EyeGaze technology has created devices to allow communication for patients with neuromuscular disease by the movement of their eyes. This site explains in greater detail the use of eye gaze technology and its effect on its users.

Blue Eyes

WebMD: Voice Banking

Voice banking is a helpful process to allow communication for those suffering from motor neuron diseases. In this article, the use of voice banking and how it works is explained.

Nurse Talking to Patient

Your ALS guide

Your ALS guide explains the importance and use of the cough assist machine for those whose muscles are too weak to clear phlegm from the lungs while coughing.

Doctor and Patient

Silverts

Silverts is an adaptive clothing and footwear website for men and women. They offer clothes by dressing needs and by condition to make the selection easy for people who have difficulty getting dressed.

Medical Tablet

Beth Donovan Hospice - Equipment Lending Program

The Beth Donovan Hospice offers support and care services to patients suffering from life-limiting illnesses, as well as coordinates medical care services in the North Grenville and South Ottawa communities. The Beth Donovan Hospice has a large collection of free medical equipment available to the community.

ALS Society of Canada

The ALS society provides regional support and support groups, information and education, and equipment loans for those diagnosed with ALS all throughout Canada.

Grandmother and Grandson

Tips and Tricks

Assistive Devices

Transportation

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