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CEO Remarks                                            At SE Health, our people are impacting communities every day. Working with purpose,
                                                       our teams are delivering safe, holistic care, celebrating special moments in that care,
                                                       and honouring the lives and stories of every individual, in the places they call home.
                                                       We call this Hope and Happiness; and it’s a purpose we are committed to every day,
         A Year of Extraordinary                       regardless of the circumstances.
            Social Innovation                          When COVID-19 devastated communities and lives, SE Health was there, dedicated to
                                                       continuing that incredible impact and ensuring that the people we care for were safe
                                                       at home.
                                                                                                                                                           Shirlee Sharkey
Purpose, Mission, Values, Vision                       We faced pandemic challenges head on; using Hope and Happiness as a vehicle to drive               President & CEO

                                                       compassion, innovation and resilience. The result: a year of extraordinary social innovation,
                                                       demonstrating our empathy, kindness and leadership in a time of global crisis.
                                                       There were more than a few obstacles – limited access to PPE, continually changing
                                                       public health guidelines, fear, exhaustion, and grief – but in mere days, we transformed
                                                       our care provision, pivoting services to virtual where appropriate, supporting safe
                                                       in-person interactions, and keeping our clients and their families connected, the best
                                                       way we could.
                                                       From our work in the community to our redeployment efforts in hospitals and long-term
                                                       care homes, our incredible people answered the call, putting their own needs aside to
                                                       serve others. At the same time, our health care leaders made strategic investments to
                                                       improve the lives of all Canadians – expanding end-of-life care through our Foundation,
                                                       advocating for improved access to home care, creating new models of seniors housing,
                                                       and much, much more.
                                                       I am truly proud to share stories from the past year showcasing the extraordinary social
                                                       innovation we achieved. Our impact is heartfelt, and our purpose is timeless: to bring
                                                       Hope and Happiness to people and communities, at all times.
 Our team members travelled 22 million+ kilometers
 last year to serve their communities. That’s nearly
 600 times around the world! There is no limit to
 how far we will go to bring Hope and Happiness.
                                                       President & CEO
                                                       SE Health
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                                               WHY does SE Health exist?         WHAT do we do?                     HOW do we do it?                   WHERE are we going?
CEO Remarks

A Year of Extraordinary
Social Innovation
                                                Purpose                            Mission                           Values                             Vision
                                                To bring hope and happiness.      As a not-for-profit social         • Life Care                       To forever impact how
  Purpose, Mission, Values, Vision                                                enterprise, we share our           • Love                            people live and age at
                                                                                  knowledge, provide the best                                          home, across Canada and
                                                                                  care and help each client to       • Work with Purpose               around the world.
                                                                                  realize their most meaningful
                                                                                  goals for health and wellbeing.

                                               The SE Promise                                                                                      Areas of Impact:
                                                                                                                                                                 Empowering
                                                                                                                                                                 Patients and
                                                  LIFE                         We bring health to life. Our care starts with you.                                Caregivers
                                                  CARE                         We go where you’re going.
                                                                                                                                                                 Transforming
                                                                                                                                                                 Care Systems
                                                                               We love what we do. We treat each person with dignity
                                                  LOVE                         and love, like our own family. We build empathy.                                  Strengthening
                                                                                                                                                                 Talent

                                                 WORK                          We tackle tough problems. We do the right thing.                                  Honouring
                                                 WITH                          We are inspired to make a difference.
                                                                                                                                                                 End-of-Life
                                                 PURPOSE                                                                                                         Journeys

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Empowering People

Empowering People

COVID-19 Impact Snapshot

Partnerships Drive Health
Care Innovation

Research Spotlight

Did You Know?

                                               IMPACT: We enable people to receive care in the places
                                               they call home – something that is even more important
                                               during the COVID-19 pandemic – and work collaboratively
                                               to ensure care meets holistic life needs.

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Empowering People
                                       During COVID-19, Bonnie Jennings played peek-a-boo
                                       with her adult daughter for the first time in over thirty
         Empowering People             years. It was a feeling the SE Health Customer Service
                                       Coordinator savoured while working from home and
                                       caring for her daughter at the same time. But that joy
COVID-19 Impact Snapshot               for Bonnie didn’t come until months into the pandemic,
                                       after many long and exhausting days.
                                       Sarah, Bonnie’s daughter, is non-verbal and has a
Partnerships Drive Health              disability. When the pandemic hit, Sarah’s day program
Care Innovation                        stopped. It was extremely hard for Bonnie to balance
                                       everything, and she felt overwhelmed.
                                                                                                                                Bonnie Jennings with her daughter Sarah.
                                       “I cried every day for three months,” she said.
Research Spotlight
                                       Bonnie says she’s not a spiritual person but when she heard about the virtual spiritual care
                                       services at SE Health, she wanted to try it.

Did You Know?                          “A wonderful woman named Susan Morgan responded immediately. She told me that she
                                       has experience living and working with people who have disabilities. She was supportive,
                                       non-judgmental and kind.”
                                       In March 2020, when home spiritual care visits halted, Susan and her colleagues seamlessly
                                       switched to Microsoft Teams to support staff and clients to ensure continuity of care.
                                       This care was a lifesaver for Bonnie and her family.
                                       “If I wasn’t at home, I may have missed the chance to play peek-a-boo with Sarah,” said
                                       Bonnie. “I am so grateful.”

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Empowering People
                                                          COVID-19 Impact Snapshot
Empowering People

     COVID-19 Impact Snapshot
                                          ~2.2M 400K                                   35+                        100K
                                           MASKS       GOWNS USED            RESEARCH PROJECTS             VIRTUAL VISITS
Partnerships Drive Health
Care Innovation

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                                                                                                                 3,848
                                                   3.2M                               134+                HOURS OF
                                          TEAMS CONNECTIONS                    PARTNERSHIPS               SPIRITUAL CARE
Did You Know?

                                                   ~4M                                                           ALMOST
                                                                                       182                       4,000L
                                          CLIENT & STAFF
                                          SCREENERS COMPLETED                 HSW-PSW GRADS               OF HAND SANITIZER

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Empowering People
                                          SE Health is Keeping People Safe and Healthy at Home
Empowering People

     COVID-19 Impact Snapshot

Partnerships Drive Health
Care Innovation

Research Spotlight

Did You Know?

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Empowering People

Empowering People
                                           Partnerships Drive Health
                                           Care Innovation
COVID-19 Impact Snapshot

     Partnerships Drive Health
          Care Innovation

Research Spotlight
                                           Our Elizz program supports caregivers in their home communities with innovative resources, programs, and now
                                           partnerships. In the last year, we engaged in 10 strategic partnerships that produced new products like the Gillette
Did You Know?                              TREO Razor, developed new ways to coordinate care through the RBC CareEasy app, and launched a challenge to
                                           bring caregiving strategies to organizational human resources teams through the Ryerson Venture Zone in Brampton.
                                           For a full list of caregiver partners, please visit the Elizz Marketplace.

                                                                          Gillette TREO Razor                    RBC CareEasy

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Empowering People                       Long Term Life Care at Home: More Options for Aging Canadians

                                                                                                   Home is where Canadians want to be. Our SE Research
                                                  205,000+ standardized home care                  Centre is leading a study in collaboration with researchers
Empowering People                                      assessments analyzed                        from the University of Waterloo and interRAI Canada to
                                                                                                   develop a model of long-term ‘life care’ at home—to
                                                                                                   sustainably meet the medical, functional and social needs
COVID-19 Impact Snapshot                      6 patient groups with unique combinations            of more community-dwelling older Canadians and delay
                                                          of ‘life care’ needs                     or avoid their admission to hospital or residential care
                                                                                                   settings. The goal is to support the development of a
Partnerships Drive Health                                                                          more integrated continuum of long-term care services
                                                                                                   and provide more options for Canadians to live, age and
Care Innovation                           45 interdisciplinary home care providers surveyed
                                                                                                   receive care in their own homes. Read more here:
                                                                                                   Long-term LIFE care at home: the future of aging-focused
                                                                                                   care in Canada
         Research Spotlight                       65 types of community-based care
                                                         and support services

Did You Know?
                                         6 care packages to meet long-term life care needs

                                           Social frailty       Caregiver        Chronic disease      Cognitive          Medical              Geriatric
                                                                 distress         management        impairment/         complexity           syndromes
                                                                                                     behaviours

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Empowering People
                                              Did
                                              You
Empowering People                             Know?

                                      30+ Elizz Paws companion dogs and their human
COVID-19 Impact Snapshot              volunteers stayed engaged virtually with patients and
                                      caregivers through social media during the pandemic
                                      bringing Hope and Happiness and innumerable smiles.

Partnerships Drive Health
Care Innovation

Research Spotlight
                                                                                                                         Bonnie Lelievre, Pro-Bono Manager of Volunteer
                                                                                                               Services for the Saint Elizabeth Foundation is hard at work
                                                                                                                       sewing masks for clients, patients, and caregivers.
           Did You Know?
                                                                                                  Volunteers donated more than 8,500 hours of sewing
                                                                                                  time to create 32,000+ cloth masks for clients, patients,
                                                                                                  and caregivers in need across the country.

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Transforming
Care Systems

Transforming Care Systems

Aging and Mental Health:
A Virtual Success

                                      IMPACT: Despite the challenges of COVID-19, the people we serve said they
                                      felt just as safe receiving our care at home as they did before the pandemic.
                                      We are proud of our 20,000+ hours invested in one year into transforming
                                      our digital systems, creating COVID-19 screeners, making virtual care more
                                      accessible, and continually developing our technology (equivalent to almost
                                      900 days of 24/7 work).
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Transforming
Care Systems

    Transforming Care Systems

Aging and Mental Health:
A Virtual Success

                                                                       Melanie Brown, RPN, is proud to deliver holistic care, ensuring
                                                                        the mental, emotional and physical well-being of her clients.

                                                     Mary is making important choices – at home. She’s been doing that for over 70 years.
                                                     “I choose survival, it’s always been that way for me,” said Mary, an Ontario-based artist. “As a baby, I was thrown
                                                     between haystacks during the Second World War, when bombers flew over England. I am destined to survive.”
                                                     During the first wave of the pandemic, Mary’s “survival” was about making the choice of how to receive care at home
                                                     for a foot wound.
                                                     In March 2020, when the pandemic began, SE Health quickly mobilized a virtual care strategy, ensuring clients like
                                                     Mary had “choices” in receiving care. The strategy certified that all clients would continue to receive safe, quality and
                                                     personalized care using communication tools like the telephone and email to promote continuity in care and ensure
                  The SE Futures team presented at   physical distancing between staff and clients. SE Health also utilized ‘Robocalls’ that prescreened clients for COVID-19
          Did     80+ speaking events impacting
          You                                        risks and allowed them to share their preference for a virtual or in-person visit.
                  30,000 people leading innovation
          Know?                                      Mary’s original (vascular) wound, healed. She now feels more “in charge” of her care and acknowledges SE Health’s
                  in health care.
                                                     commitment to client “choice” as critical in her care journey.

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Transforming
Care Systems
                                                                                                           I never once felt out of place and in fact I felt that I could
                                                                                                           make good and valuable contributions. I was amazed at
                                                                                                           how well you organized the details and agenda of the
Transforming Care Systems
                                                                                                           workshop and really appreciated the discussion and input
                                                                                                           of others... wonderful job folks and it resulted in a very
                                                                                                           informative and valuable process. I look forward to the
     Aging and Mental Health:                                                                              initiatives that come out of it
                                                                                                                                                - Workshop Participant
         A Virtual Success

                                          How do you learn what matters most to Canadians about aging and mental health? You ask them! That’s what the SE
                                          Research Centre did in collaboration with the Canadian Mental Health Association, National Office. Nationwide online
                                          engagement included monthly steering group meetings, 1,000+ survey responses and 50+ Canadians engaged in 4
                                          virtual workshops. A list of top 10 unanswered questions on aging and mental health were generated and prioritized
                                          for future research and action. Read more here: Aging and Mental Health: What Research Priorities Matter Most
                                          to Canadians?

                                                                                  Did        The SE Research Centre formed over 17 years ago as part of SE
                                                                                  You        Health’s leadership in evidence-based practice, decision-making
                                                                                  Know?      and innovation. This strong foundation of applied knowledge and
                                                                                             evidence helped SE Health to develop solutions to pandemic-related
                                                                                             challenges in 4 priority areas this year: 1) Aging and Society; 2) Dying,
                                                                                             Death and Grief; 3) Health and Care Experiences; and 4) Models of
                                                                                             Care Delivery. Read more here: SE Research Areas of Focus

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Strengthening Talent

Strengthening Talent

Michael Decter Award

Building Solutions in the First Nations,
Inuit and Métis (FNIM) Program

Did You Know?

                                                    IMPACT: Educating new talent and empowering our people to
                                                    deliver holistic, life care is an integral part of our purpose to bring
                                                    Hope and Happiness to our communities. SE Health has provided
                                                    education, training and integrated work placements for over
                                                    40,000 personal support workers, nurses, pharmacists and other
                                                    community health workers in the past five years.
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Strengthening Talent
                                                                                           Monika Janeczek is flying high – at home. But not because she
                                                                                           was laid off from her job at an airline during the first wave of
                                                                                           the pandemic.
          Strengthening Talent                        Investing in you so
                                                                                           Since learning that she was out of work, the Ottawa-based
                                                      together we can                      mother of two young children, very quickly found a new and
                                                      help people in need                  rewarding ‘home’ in health care with the SE Health HSW-PSW
Michael Decter Award                                                                       Certificate Training Program.

                                                      “The SE Health PSW Training Program helped me to further my education and work in an interesting
                                                      role while contributing to our health care system during a crisis,” said Monika. “It also allowed me to
Building Solutions in the First Nations,              earn a pay cheque and support my family after being laid off from my job. I’m so glad I found this             Monika Janeczek
Inuit and Métis (FNIM) Program                        innovative program that continues to make a meaningful difference for me in many ways.”

                                                                                                                       Monika is enjoying every minute, learning and working at SE
                                                                                                                       Health and caring for others in a capacity that, looking back,
Did You Know?                                                                                                          she feels like she’s known her entire life.

                                                                                                                       “I was young when my mother was diagnosed with breast
                                                                                                                       cancer and my sister is blind, so I feel like health care has
                                                                                                                       been in front of me my whole life. It wasn’t until I lost my
                                                                                                                       job that I discovered health care as a new career.”

                                                                                                                       Monika sees how making a difference now matters more
                                                                                                                       than ever and she is so thankful to SE Health for investing
                                                                                                                       in her success.
                                                        Class of 2021

                                                                                                                                                      Monika Janeczek is the Award
          Did     Our HSW-PSW Certificate
                                                                                                                                                      of Excellence winner (London-
          You     Training Program partnered with
          Know?                                                                                                                                       Champlain) – presented to
                  14 organizations to ensure the
                                                                                                                                                      students who show superior
                  exceptional training of people in
                                                                                                                                                      performance in the classroom
                  12 communities.
                                                                                                                                                      and clinical settings.

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Strengthening Talent                                                                     SE Health commemorated the 10-year anniversary of the
                                                                                         Michael Decter Scholarship for Health Leadership and Policy
                                                                                         Studies by recording and distributing a virtual panel.
Strengthening Talent                                                                     The virtual discussion featured an address from Michael
                                                                                         Decter, Harvard-trained economist and former Board
                                                                                         Chair at SE Health; with opening remarks from Shirlee
                                                                                         Sharkey, SE Health President & CEO; and an interactive
          Michael Decter Award
                                                                                         discussion about the Canadian healthcare system with
                                                                                         scholarship recipients, past and present. The Roundtable
                                                                                         was moderated by Nancy Lefebre, SE Health Chief
Building Solutions in the First Nations,                                                 Clinical Executive and SVP of Knowledge and Practice.
Inuit and Métis (FNIM) Program

Did You Know?

                                                                                                                            Reza Hosseini is the
                                                                                                                            winner of the 2020
                                                                                                                            Michael Decter
                                                                                                                            Scholarship for Health
                                                                                                                            Leadership and Policy
                                 Other SE Health                                                                            Studies. $5,000
                                 Award Winners:
                              Joan Lesmond 2021 -
                                  Aric Rankin
                                 SE Hope Award -
                                 Marie-Lee Yous

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Strengthening Talent                        Building Solutions in the First Nations, Inuit and Métis (FNIM) Program
                                            Increasing capacity in wound assessment and care is a longstanding priority in Ontario
                                            First Nations. SE Health is addressing this need through virtual learning during the
Strengthening Talent                        COVID-19 pandemic.

Michael Decter Award

      Building Solutions in the
       First Nations, Inuit and
       Métis (FNIM) Program

Did You Know?

                                            A student practices wound care under the supervision                 Proper wound care techniques are demonstrated in a
                                            of a virtual instructor.                                             virtual learning environment.

                                               This was a great hands-on course. The return demo was              SE Health has a deep and proud history collaborating
                                               excellent and a great reminder on how to swab a wound              with Indigenous communities across Canada. Through
                                               correctly. The instructors were very knowledgeable,                excellence in education and training, and co-developing
                                               understanding and helpful; they made it a safe space to            programs that support these communities, SE Health
                                               ask questions. The information was pertinent and on                is honouring, respecting and acting upon the Truth and
                                               point to the reality of what our scope of practice involves.       Reconciliation calls to action (Call to Action 92.iii) with
                                                                  - Melanie T, grateful nurse participant         dedication and determination.

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Strengthening Talent                                       Did
                                                           You
                                                           Know?                     SE Health has 23 practice coaches
                                                                                     supporting frontline staff through
Strengthening Talent

Michael Decter Award
                                                  20                      300+                           40+                         20+
Building Solutions in the First Nations,          clinical quality        clinical policies              education                   new business
Inuit and Métis (FNIM) Program                    improvement plans       and procedures                 course offerings            ventures/programs

           Did You Know?

                                                                                                       SE Learning provided
                                                                90%                                    29,000+ hours of education to more
                                                                                                       		    than 7,500 learners in the last
                                                                                                              year alone!
                                                 of our customer service staff
                                                 received training to provide great
                                                 client and caregiver experiences
                                                 over the phone

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Family is at the Heart of Care

Building with Mission: Bringing
Social Innovation, Health, and
Housing Together for Older Adults

Did You Know?

COURAGE: Action for Better Aging

                                              IMPACT: We know that Canadians want to live, age, and die at home. SE
                                              Health is a leader in delivering palliative care at home and our Foundation’s
                                              mission is to support end-of-life care for people most in need. In the last
                                              year, we helped Canadians to journey through end-of-life safe at home, we
                                              made strategic investments into hospice care at Oak Ridges Hospice and
                                              Journey Home Hospice, and offered 17 eLearning courses for First Nations,
                                              Inuit, and Métis health care providers in communities across Canada to learn
                                              essential skills such as caregiving, end-of-life care, cancer care, and more.
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                                              Our SE team is a big family serving 20,000 Canadians each day. We live our values
   Family is at the Heart of Care
                                              of life care, love, and work with purpose by supporting each other through hard
                                              times and celebrating the triumphs together. This has never been truer for Dr. Sheri
                                              Bergeron – the Saint Elizabeth Foundation’s Medical Director, and her family – than
Building with Mission: Bringing               over the last year. When her stepmother, Jan – a former nurse – was diagnosed
Social Innovation, Health, and                with terminal cancer, Sheri came to know her SE family in a new way.
Housing Together for Older Adults             “Home is where we want to be at the end of our lives,” said Sheri. “During the
                                              pandemic, being at home was even more important to Jan because it meant that
                                              family could visit and spend time together – something that would not have been
                                              possible in a hospital. It was incredible to rely on my SE colleagues to support us in
Did You Know?
                                              the community.”
                                              Jan felt safe, supported, and cared for by an expert team, reflected Sheri. “She trusted
COURAGE: Action for Better Aging              them as fellow professionals and our whole family benefitted from the option to
                                              journey through Jan’s final days in the community. Thank you, Saint Elizabeth.”

                                                                                                                                                 Dr. Sheri Bergeron

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Family is at the Heart of Care

  Building with Mission: Bringing
   Social Innovation, Health, and
 Housing Together for Older Adults

Did You Know?

COURAGE: Action for Better Aging

                                               Launched in 2020, the Building with Mission project is bringing together social innovation and housing initiatives to provide
                                               healthy aging options for older adults. The SE Health team is helping to create a country-wide playbook and assist three
                                               demonstration projects in Ontario and Alberta to initiate and accelerate housing developments with human-centred
                                               design methods. These projects will bridge the existing gap between independent and congregate living for aging
                                               Canadians. Informed by 25+ subject matter experts and stakeholders, and steered by 100+ hours of industry expert
                                               time, our playbook of step-by-step instructions and resources will assist Canadian non-profits to develop innovative
                                               housing options. Find out more: buildingwithmission.ca

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                                                                                                                    You
Life Journeys                                                                                                       Know?

                                                                                                             The SE Health and Saint Elizabeth Foundation
Family is at the Heart of Care                                                                               teams distributed 5,000 warm blankets and
                                                                                                             1,000 individual gift cards to patients, caregivers,
                                                                                                             and Canadians in need.

Building with Mission: Bringing
Social Innovation, Health, and
Housing Together for Older Adults

                                              Journey Home Hospice, Toronto’s
           Did You Know?                      only hospice specifically serving
                                              the homeless community
                                              expanded from four to ten beds
                                              in the middle of the COVID-19
COURAGE: Action for Better Aging              pandemic! More than 900
                                              people attended the virtual
                                              grand opening of Journey Home
                                              Hospice and 34 million+ people
                                              read articles about the hospice.
                                              Take the tour and see how the
                                              Saint Elizabeth Foundation is
                                              empowering end-of-life care
                                              for people most in need:

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Life Journeys                                 The COURAGE initiative is led by SE Health and the Covenant family, Canadian leaders in the seniors’ living and care
                                              sectors, working to deliver and promote a positive future for older adults. By 2054, Canada’s population of adults over
                                              65 will make up more than 20% of the population, managing multiple health diagnoses, and at the same time, older
                                              adults have made it clear they prefer to live and age at home. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted concerns related
Family is at the Heart of Care                to safety, wellbeing, independence, and quality of life in our current system; COURAGE will engage Canadians to take
                                              action in planning their care and bring together individual stakeholders and organizational partners to better recreate a
                                              system that prioritizes choice. This continues SE Health’s ground-breaking work in the Future of Aging and challenges
                                              all of us to reconsider what aging means and how to promote whole-person, life care for all Canadians in whatever
Building with Mission: Bringing               place they call home. Find out more: actionforbetteraging.ca
Social Innovation, Health, and
Housing Together for Older Adults

Did You Know?

     AGE: Action for Better Aging
 COURAGE

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Special Features

Focus Feature: SE Health Collaboration
with Future of Good

Technology Partnership Keeps Older
Adults Connected During the Pandemic
and Inspires Ontario Health Study

                                                  Collaborating with others and forming strategic partnerships
                                                  helps us to make a more significant impact for Canadians.
                                                  We are proud to showcase how we are leveraging media and
                                                  technology partners to positively influence our communities.

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Special Features

      Focus Feature: SE Health
 Collaboration with Future of Good

Technology Partnership Keeps Older
Adults Connected During the Pandemic
and Inspires Ontario Health Study
                                               Looking to the future of health care is more than just health systems influence for SE Health. It’s about social connectivity
                                               – looking through the lens of culture, society, and how we collaborate and interact as social beings. This is one way we
                                               are lending expertise to the conversation.
                                               Intergenerational bonds are an important factor in how health and aging are addressed and viewed as opportunities or
                                               deficits. Bonds can manifest organically, but according to Justine Giosa, Managing Director, SE Research Centre, there’s
                                               now a greater demand for the health care system to respond to the rising need for social connectivity among younger
                                               and older adults alike. “We need to focus on care that is less about bricks and buildings and more about people and
                                               communities” she says.
                                               A new research paper, for example, showed the benefits of intergenerational connections after a group of nursing
                                               students brought together older adults, people with disabilities and preschool aged children to create a community
                                               garden, finding that if everyone came together to build something, they learned more about each other and from
                                               each other, thus extinguishing any bias or tension between generations.

                                                                                                               SE Health has extraordinary thought leadership and
                                                                                                               work on the future of aging. We cherish this content
                                                                                                               partnership as our joint energies are about broadening
                                                                                                               the care and aging conversation beyond the health
                                                                                                               sector. We look forward to what’s next.
                                                                                                                                                      Future of Good

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                                    Remarks        People                 Care Systems                 Talent                     Life Journeys                          Features

Special Features
                                                                                                                Connecting with loved ones promotes happiness,
Focus Feature: SE Health Collaboration                                                                          security and well-being – especially during a pandemic.
with Future of Good                                                                                             But for a large portion of Canada’s aging population,
                                                                                                                specifically older adults in long-term care homes, that
                                                                                                                connectivity was lost – without the opportunity to see
   Technology Partnership Keeps                                                                                 family and friends and without access to the internet
                                                                                                                and digital devices.
   Older Adults Connected During
     the Pandemic and Inspires                                                                               In December 2020, SE Health and the Saint Elizabeth
        Ontario Health Study                                                                                 Foundation partnered with technology suppliers to help
                                                                                                             older adults across the country to connect with their
                                                                                                             loved ones. SE Health staff nominated older clients in
                                              their care and delivered 700+ donated devices, gathering many stories of hardship, but creating enormous Hope and
                                              Happiness for clients and their families along the way. This wonderful partnership has led to a ‘first of its kind’ quality
                                              improvement study, guided by leaders at SE Health, with Ontario Health, Central Region, that aims to better understand
                                              the use of digital devices in long-term care homes, provide options to enhance digital connections, and therefore work
                                              on reducing social isolation for older adults.

                                               The reality: many
                                               residents in long-term
                                               care homes aren’t
                                               connected to the
                                               internet; nor do they
                                               have access to devices
                                               that would allow them
                                               to connect with people
                                               outside of their homes.
                                                                                                       The SE Futures team delivering Google Nest Hub Max devices in their communities.

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