Caregiving for a person after a heart attack or stroke can be a stressful time. You may need to schedule and drive to medical, physiotherapy, and speech therapy appointments, arrange home care visits and do more tasks around the house.
Depending on the severity of the condition, the level of support may increase, or decrease over time.
Explore our resources below to find community supports, peer groups and more.
Living Well as a Caregiver – This guide by the University of Ottawa Heart Institute offers tips and resources for caregivers, to care for themselves and someone with a cardiovascular disease.
Heart & Stroke – Find resources, support services and lifestyle tips for people with heart conditions, and their caregivers.
March of Dimes – After Stroke – A personalized stroke recovery program to help survivors and families move forward.
The Heart Hub – Learn about medications and medical therapy with resources for patients and caregivers.
In this webinar, you will learn practical resources and care strategies to support the person you’re caring for with heart failure.
This webinar shares information about the After Stroke program and available supports and services for caregivers.
Learn insights and tips for taking care of someone who is recovering from surgery.
Life can include emergency situations that we can’t prevent, but caregivers can be well-prepared should an emergency happen.
Life can include emergency situations that we can’t prevent, but caregivers can be well-prepared should an emergency happen.
This webinar provides caregivers with information, resources, and tools to support patient transitions between hospital and home.
Join us for an interactive discussion with Dr. Melissa Lem about the benefits of spending time outdoors.
During this interactive presentation, caregivers will learn the benefits of dancing for themselves and the people they’re caring for.
Heather Lannon, the Care and Transitions Facilitator for the Aortic Program, Cardiovascular Surgery at St. Michael’s Hospital shares her own experience caring for her husband Jamie while he waited for a heart transplant traveling all the way from St. John’s, NL to receive care.
Dr. Patrick McGrath, a Clinical Psychologist and an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Dalhousie University. In this episode, he talks about medical and psychological treatments for PTSD, and resources caregivers can access to help with this.
Andrea
Caring for: Husband
Andrea was a full – time employee, mother, and wife. She never expected she would take on the role of a caregiver so early in her life. On December 21st, 2015 Andrea’s life changed suddenly when her husband was injured at work after suffering a heart attack and going into cardiac arrest. Her husband was later diagnosed with post – concussion syndrome.
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