Camilla Cornell is a Toronto freelance writer who specializes in health care and personal finance. In her 25-plus years of writing she has been the recipient of two National Magazine Awards and numerous nominations.
Camilla Cornell is a Toronto freelance writer who specializes in health care and personal finance. In her 25-plus years of writing she has been the recipient of two National Magazine Awards and numerous nominations.
Articles by Camilla Cornell
Article: Long-Term Care
Finding Your Loved One a Home Away From Home
by CAMILLA CORNELL
When Christine Taylor’s family decided her grandmother needed full-time care, she found herself on the opposite side of a very familiar desk. Taylor, who has an MA in Gerontology and had worked as a nursing-home administrator, was faced with helping her dad choose a facility that would keep her grandmother…
Article: Websites
Caring.com Connects Caregivers
by CAMILLA CORNELL
By the time Corry Horsman, of Edmonton, Alta., discovered the U.S. website Caring.com three years ago, she was at her wit’s end. Her mother Cornelia, who has dementia, refused to go to sleep. Even after she did—at one o’clock in the morning—she’d try to leave her condo or would fall attempting…
Article: Activities
What are we going to do today?
by CAMILLA CORNELL
How the Ashby Memory Method Dementia Intervention Program can help those in the early to mid stages to gain a new lease on life: Lou Granger was diagnosed with dementia in his early 60s, and the disease progressed quickly. A long-time diabetic, he could no longer remember how to check his own blood…
Article: Family
Put The Family Into Training
by CAMILLA CORNELL
When John Hobday’s mother gave birth to four children over four years, his grandmother Therese jumped in to help out. “We were always over at her house,” he says. “She loved to cook and garden and crochet. She was really like a second mom to us.” During college and into adulthood Hobday, now…
Article: Planning
So, You Say You Feel Lucky?
by CAMILLA CORNELL
So, you feel lucky and don't think you'll need a long-term care policy? Certainly, while the LTC policy has become a standard feature in the U.S., it's a tough sell in Canada. “You’re 100 percent sure you’re going to die some day,” says Nathalie Tremblay, health products manager for Desjardins…
Article: Money
Help! I'm Running Out of Money Fast
by CAMILLA CORNELL
One MetLife study found that the 10 million employed caregivers in the U.S. lose an estimated $304,000 per person in wages, pensions and social security benefits over a lifetime if they leave the workforce prematurely. And that doesn’t include the little extras caregivers pay out of pocket. A survey…
Article: Routines
Have I Got a Food Trick for You
by CAMILLA CORNELL
Most of us would turn up our noses at the prospect of eating roast beef with maple syrup. But one of Nancy Lerner’s patients at Maryland's Copper Ridge Institute, crinstitute.org – a research facility dedicated to Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia – would gobble that up. “If…
Article: Planning
How One Smart Texan Woman Did It all
by CAMILLA CORNELL
Della Pruitt’s family, based in Lewisville, Tex., had a long history of Alzheimer’s Disease. Her mother, four aunts and one uncle (out of a family of 12) developed the disease. So when Pruitt’s older sister, Nola, began to have memory problems in her early 50s, her husband, Harold, was worried.…