The Edmonton Southside Primary Care Network consists of a team of medical professionals who work with your family physician to improve your overall health. There are over 97 member clinics with 300 family physicians, and more than 160 Primary Care Network staff wanting to help.
Their team of healthcare providers each play a specific role in improving, coordinating and delivering primary health services. Their primary care teams are composed of nurses, nurse practitioners, healthy aging nurses and social workers, behavioural health consultants, registered dietitians, respiratory therapists, exercise specialists and administrative staff.
The Primary Care Network has workshops and health resources, nutritional video recipes, the Prescription to Get Active program, and much more.
Part of this Primary Care Network is the Senior's Centre Without Walls. It is a senior's centre from the comfort of your own home. You are able to join for a variety of interactive telephone-based social and health programming, free of charge. It provides the opportunities to socialize, learn new skills and stay connected. There are new series of participant-selected topics every four months. The program is funded in part by the Government of Canada's New Horizons for Seniors Program.
Some of the telephone-based programming includes; home exercise group, grief support group, caregiver support group, bingo, brain games, skill building (declutter), and medication management.
The programs run from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm, Monday through Friday. At the time of writing, this organization was having a trial-run for an evening program.
If you wish to learn more about this program, please "right-click" the link below and click on "open in new window" to access their website. This way, you will remain on this website and have a new web page open to Senior's Centre Without Walls. Once you close that, you will still remain logged onto this website.
http://www.edmontonsouthsidepcn.ca/classes-health-resources/seniors-centre-without-walls/