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Lori Holloway
37:12|CHATS CEO Christina Bisanz recently welcomed Ontario Community Support Association (OCSA) CEO Lori Holloway, whose organization serves as the provincial voice for home and community care in Ontario. Holloway emphasized the critical importance of advocacy at a time when the health-care system is under significant strain: one in five Ontarians is now over the age of 65, and 2.5 million people lack access to a primary care physician. “Advocacy is now about survival,” she noted. “We are bringing the voice to people who may not have a voice.” You won’t want to miss this enlightening episode. Learn more about OCSA at Home & Community Support Services | ON and more about what CHATS is advocating for at Invest In Home & Community Support Services”
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Laura Tamblyn Watts
33:02|Laura Tamblyn Watts is the CEO of CanAge, Canada’s national seniors’ advocacy organization joins the CHATS Podcast.Chief Fire Prevention Officer Ryan Schell
34:08|Chief Fire Prevention Officer Ryan Schell joins the CHATS podcast to discuss fire safety and prevention for seniors.Sue Lantz
35:47|Sue is a trusted policy strategist, educator and advocate, within the field of healthy aging and caregiving. Sue's extensive healthcare, housing, and community care background includes policy planning and innovative change implementation.Patricia Spindel
43:54|Dr. Patricia Spindel has worked with youth and engaged in systemic advocacy for people with developmental disabilities and their families and older adults for over forty years. She taught at both the University of Guelph-Humber and the Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, where she also coordinated the Social Services Worker Program and was an Associate Dean of Health Sciences. She is a former President of Concerned Friends of Ontario Citizens in Care Facilities, co-founder of the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly, organizer of the Ontario Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, and co-founder of Seniors For Social Action Ontario.