Life Changes/ Managing Change

The Ontario Retirement Communities Association (ORCA) is a voluntary non-profit association that represents operators of retirement residences in Ontario. This website offers a section to help determine which retirement home is right for you. It describes different types of housing arrangements and services they provide.

This is a comprehensive resource that outlines various measures that one can take at home to avoid accidental falls and make home environment safer. Topics also include the benefits of physical activity and keeping track of medications. A number of helpful checklists are also included. Pdf version is also available.

If you're struggling to adjust to changes and transitions at work, then you'll definitely want to keep a copy of Spencer Johnson's short but effective parable somewhere nearby.  The author’s gift for taking complicated, sometimes overwhelming feelings and making them manageable as well as open to change is the key to this book's amazing success. Change occurs whether a person is ready or not, but the author affirms that it can be positive. His principles are to anticipate change, let go of the old, and do what you would do if you were not afraid.

This A-Z guide for all you need to know about every aspect of living with mobility impairment. This unique book offers an initial road map to the lifelong, complex, and fascinating road of the disability experience. The book is full of practical advice, from wheelchair selection to intimacy, personal hygiene and accessibility issues.

The book offers and easy, effective program, complete with stories and exercises, that shows how to embrace changes in life to live a joyful life.

The book is used throughout the world to train wellness coaches. It is also the perfect training tool for wellness professionals of all kinds, disease management professionals, professional coaches, EAP professionals, counselors, and therapists.

Whether it is chosen or thrust upon you, change brings both opportunities and turmoil. The author takes readers step by step through the three stages of any transition: The Ending, The Neutral Zone, and The New Beginning. Bridges explains how each stage can be understood and embraced, leading to meaningful and productive movement into a hopeful future.

The author, a reporter and a paraplegic since an auto accident at age nineteen, holds nothing back in this achingly honest, often hilarious chronicle filled with lively stories which defy physical, emotional and psychological obstacles of living and working from a wheelchair.