Understanding Your Care Team: A List of Defined Roles

Understanding Your Care Team has been co-developed with caregivers to help caregivers and patients understand the various types of providers that may be on their care team and their respective roles. Using plain language, each role is defined.

This list was developed by the Improving CARE Together project team.

Understanding Your Care Team: A List of Defined Roles

How do you engage #caregivers and providers? We have complied our top 13 tips for you. Download the tip sheet here: bit.ly/2RsSmyk pic.twitter.com/hv7PWMVcwj

Recognizing the need to help caregivers & healthcare providers working within Ontario’s mental health and addictions system we created a Q&A document to support navigating 'Patient Privacy and Consent in The Addiction and Mental Health System in Ontario' bit.ly/2M035jD pic.twitter.com/LYy9V171RI

For providers, the identification card helps them know which family members are involved in the care of their patients. It also gives them a reason to check in with caregivers, and build a relationship in a proactive way. Learn more about the caregiver ID: bit.ly/2H9EZPY pic.twitter.com/sCzHnXSRZi

Co-design can take many forms. The Changing CARE team -- @CC_Connecting, @WoodGreenDotOrg & @SinaiHealthTO, @CaregiversSDG & @CC_Improving offer their "top 10 take-away" learning about their experiences with co-design. Find out what the 10 tips are: bit.ly/2Rixfxl pic.twitter.com/IFSkn0FXDx

We know that caregiving has both positive and negative impacts, with clear tolls on the #caregiver. Caregivers in Ontario can access the @211Ontario helpline for help in navigating supports available for them. 211 is available 24/7 for all to access. twitter.com/Sylvanem/statu…

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Are you starting the conversation for #caregiver involvement in your organization? Explore our toolkit learn from our experiences and access the tools, templates and guides we have codesigned with #caregivers for you to adapt: bit.ly/2tbWk3q pic.twitter.com/0ljFgcPZ9S

44% of caregivers turn to family and friends for information and supports. See what a member of the Caregiver Advisory Panel said as to why: bit.ly/2KJpOOm #caregiver #ONhealth pic.twitter.com/Bzdxz05wQM

The Changing Care teams came together to explore how their projects are each contributing to improvements in healthcare. Hear how Changing CARE has changed the culture at two project partner sites @CCHCornwall & @hpha_news bit.ly/2MSv44M #ONhealth #caregivers #codesign

After hearing repeatedly that privacy and consent is a barrier faced by many of Ontario’s family #caregivers, we took on the issue and released the report 'Making Privacy and Consent Rules Work For Family Caregivers' Read the report to learn more: bit.ly/2M035jD pic.twitter.com/sIOYdOOU2o

Understanding Your Care Team: A List of Defined Roles

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