In small care homes, each resident largely follows their own daily sleep schedule and has flexibility around meals and activities, in contrast with traditional ‘task-oriented’ homes that seek efficiencies through regimented wake and sleep times and mass meals.
A new poll suggests more than a third of Canadians say they have no choice but to seek health information online because they don’t have access to a doctor, further highlighting challenges posed by an ongoing physician shortage.
A new study from Australia involving over 83,000 participants found that prolonged standing may not improve heart health and could even increase the risk of certain circulatory problems.