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Ms. Maureen Parkinson, Vocational Rehabilitation Counsellor, M.Ed. C.C.R.C, BC Cancer
Ms. Maureen Parkinson is the province-wide vocational rehabilitation counsellor at the BC Cancer Agency. She has also been vocational rehabilitation counsellor at a public rehabilitation hospital and vocational rehabilitation consultant to insurance companies and the court system. She has instructed and facilitated Service-Canada-funded programs on job searching and career exploration. Ms. Parkinson has a Masters in Counselling Psychology, is a Canadian Certified Rehabilitation Counsellor, and completed the Certified Return to Work Coordinator Program through the National Institute for Disability Management and Research. She has developed return-to-work and job-search seminars for cancer patients and created the guidebook “Cancer and Returning to Work: A Practical Guide for Cancer Patients” as well as on-line articles about returning to work and school. She also co-authored a paper commissioned by the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology, “Cancer and Work: A Canadian Perspective”.
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Dr. Christine Maheu, RN, PhD
Dr. Christine Maheu is an Associate Professor in the Ingram School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University. Dr. Maheu is also an Affiliate Scientist at the University Health Network and the University of Toronto. At McGill University, she teaches research methods, supervises graduate students (masters, doctoral, post-doctoral), mentors practicing nurses and students in research, and conducts research in English and French. She has held research awards with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canadian Cancer Society, and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer. These awards funded her research in psychosocial oncology, which focuses on developing and testing psychosocial interventions or measurements tools for various cancer populations. Additionally, in partnership with Ipsos Canada and funded by the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, she is co-leading a nationwide survey of the needs of cancer patients for transition care from the end of their treatment to three years after their diagnosis. Dr. Maheu received awards for excellence in nursing research (2013, 2015, 2016) from Ovarian Cancer Canada, the Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology, and the Quebec Association of Nurses in Oncology.
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Pour ceux qui ont cotisé à l’assurance-emploi par l’intermédiaire de Service Canada, il existe trois types de prestations disponibles aux proches aidants pour s’absenter du travail afin de fournir des soins ou du soutien à une personne gravement malade ou blessée ou à une personne en fin de vie.
Ces prestations comprennent :
Prestations pour proches aidants d’enfants: jusqu’à 35 semaines pour s’occuper d’un enfant de moins de 18 ans gravement malade ou blessé
Prestations pour proches aidants d’adultes: jusqu’à 15 semaines pour s’occuper d’une personne gravement malade ou blessée de plus de 18 ans
Prestations de compassion: jusqu’à 26 semaines pour s’occuper d’une personne de tout âge qui a besoin de soins de fin de vie.
Pour plus d’informations sur l’admissibilité et pour faire une demande en ligne, consultez :
https://www.canada.ca/fr/services/prestations/ae/soins.html
