Alberta Health Services. Provides a wealth of information on how to establish a healthy diet. Includes links to nutrition workshops & classes offered by AHS.
Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto). This website contains information about diabetes in children, from symptom recognition, to diagnosis, treatment and long-term outcomes. Learn about managing and living with diabetes on a daily basis.
The mission of the Childhood Obesity Foundation is to lead a societal shift toward healthy eating and active lifestyles to promote childhood healthy weights and the resulting physical and emotional benefits.
This podcast series takes a 360° look at diabetes, from those affected by the disease to those working to find better treatments and ultimately a cure.
Michelle MacPhee's website provides a wide range of information for Canadian parents of children with type 1 diabetes, including tips from the trenches from parents who have lived it.
BC Children's Hospital. An interactive, multimedia platform that provides easy-to-understand education and training about type 1 diabetes that can be tailored to each family’s unique needs.
AHS-reviewed and Alberta-optimized patient teaching handouts are available within Connect Care and at MyHealth.Alberta.ca/handouts. Within Connect Care, educational handouts are about care instructions related to various medical conditions, treatments, medications, before and after care as well as brief general info. These can be favorited by HCPs for future quick access, personalized with some specific instructions to a patient and then added to the After Visit Summary.
Lippincott, DynaMed, and Lexidrug offer additional sources of patient information, which you may consider using to support your patient's information needs. Use your clinical judgment when deciding if one of these supplementary sources is right for your patient. In DynaMed, use the search box to find a relevant topic, and use the left side navigation to select the "Patient Information" heading. In Lippincott Advisor, see the "Patient Teaching Handouts" section and in Lexidrug you'll find a "Patient Education" tab in the top menu.
