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Living with Stroke© is a self-management program developed by the Heart & Stroke Foundation for individuals with stroke and family/informal caregivers. Sessions are offered in Belleville, Kingston, Brockville and Perth, one to two times/year. Each program consists of 1.5 to 2 hour sessions each week for 6 to 8 weeks. There is no cost to participate. Information on the next program in your area can be obtained in the relevant flyer below or by using the contact information in the Stroke Support Group brochure listed in the tab above – Stroke Support Groups in Southeastern Ontario.
Living with Stroke
Aphasia Supportive Conversation Groups are being offered in Kingston and Belleville. For further information, please see below.
The Quinte Aphasia Conversation Group is a gathering of adults aged 35-88 who have difficulty getting their message out (expressive aphasia) and/or taking a message in (receptive aphasia). Collaboratively hosted by Quinte & District Rehabilitation and Community Care for South Hastings, the group is facilitated by a Speech-Language Pathologist. Meeting once a week for eight weeks during a fall and spring session, the group shares experiences, learns more about aphasia, supports each other and practices communicating. For Stroke Awareness Month in 2018, the group helped create this video as a way to enhance public and health care provider awareness of aphasia and to highlight key messages about what it’s like to live with aphasia.
Click here to view the video!
The Stroke Network of Southeastern Ontario, in partnership with the South East Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) and the SouthEasthealthline.ca, has produced an online database of services available to people with stroke. This database includes information on rehabilitation, transportation, community services, psychosocial support, recreation, adapted equipment, home renovation and income assistance and has been designed to provide information on these topics and many others through a user-friendly format. Persons with stroke and their families as well as health care providers will find the site to be an invaluable resource. The site may be accessed by:
An interactive system navigation tool has been created by the Centre for Studies in Aging and Health to help healthcare providers and the public to search for the services across Southeastern Ontario that might be useful in recovery following conditions that include stroke. The database includes outpatient and community-based rehabilitation services and community support services. You can search this database by type of service using an interactive map.
Please use the FASTlinks Web-based Maps to access this information.
Tyendinaga Home & Community Care offers a network of services provided by qualified staff to assist individuals to remain in their own home for as long as possible. Click on the links below to learn more.
Your Stroke Journey Check In is a self-assessment and self-management questionnaire that helps stroke survivors and caregivers to identify their care and support needs as well as providing a method to assess their recovery journey. The completed questionnaire can also be shared with care providers for assistance in meeting identified care needs. The questionnaire was developed in collaboration with patient advisors.
Your Stroke Journey Check In
This resource provides a listing of supports and services which would be of interest to clients and caregivers who have experienced a stroke and to health care providers working with individuals who are living with the effects of a stroke. The listing includes embedded links where available. The document is divided into two sections; the first section is targeted at clients/residents/caregivers and the second section is targeted at health care providers. Some resources may be included in both sections.
Resource Listing
These directories are relevant to stroke survivors and care partners
This resource provides a listing of community based meal services including special diets such as textured meals. This listing provides information current to December 2016. Users are also encouraged to refer to the SE Healthline Meal Delivery Services and SE Healthline Frozen Meals.
The Guide developed by March of Dimes, Stroke Recovery Canada is an excellent free resource for both stroke survivors and caregivers. The Guide provides "practical tips for daily living, relevant medical information, as well as stories from caregivers and survivors. In addition, there are articles on rehabilitation, spasticity, community reintegration, post-stroke relationships, adapting your environment, and lists of useful contacts." (Stroke Recovery Canada)
It is important for caregivers to have access to information about stroke and also about their new role as a caregiver. The Stroke Support Groups in Southeastern Ontario include caregivers. The following are links to excellent sources of information when caring for a person recovering from stroke.
Supports for Caregiver of Persons Living with the Effects of Stroke, August 2020
March of Dimes
https://afterstroke.marchofdimes.ca/stroke-recovery/caregivers
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
https://www.heartandstroke.ca/stroke/recovery-and-support
Ontario Caregiver Organization
https://ontariocaregiver.ca
This exercise information brochure for people living with the effects of stroke includes a checklist to determine what exercise program is right for you.
This Return to Work Toolkit provides stroke survivors, family members and healthcare providers with assistance to navigate the process of returning to work including information on local and provincial resources and an online Job Readiness Self-Assessment Guide.
With appreciation to the Stroke Network of Southwestern Ontario for their willingness to share the resources within their Return to Work Toolkit.
The loss of a driver’s licence following a stroke can have significant impacts on the stroke survivor and on the family. Impacts can include emotional, financial and social and returning to driving after a stroke can be a complicated and costly endeavor for stroke survivors and their families. Leveraging the work done by the Southwestern Ontario Stroke Network, the Stroke Network of Southeastern Ontario has adapted Driving After a Stroke in Ontario to reflect the services and supports available here in the southeast. The Driving After a Stroke in Ontario resource is intended to help stroke survivors (and families) understand the process required to return to driving and to connect with relevant supports & services. The resource also recognizes that not all stroke survivors will be able to resume driving and a section applicable to those individuals is included. The resource also includes two aphasia-friendly algorithms for returning to driving when the stroke survivor’s licence has been suspended and when the licence has not been suspended. As well, there is information on Driving After a TIA in Ontario. For more information or to access these resources in additional languages, contact Gwen Brown, Regional Community & LTC Coordinator at gwen.brown@kingstonhsc.ca or by phone at 1-613-549-6666 X 6867.