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Life With Georgia | by Nancy Walton
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By Louise Kinross Holland Bloorview is launching a new website at the end of August, and BLOOM will be a part of it! Rather than standing alone, BLOOM will be integrated into one site with the hospital and our research institute and foundation. The new website has been designed with input from children and families. It features gorgeous, large images, as you can see in the screen shot above, is much easier to read and has enhanced accessibility. Visitors will be able to translate our pages into 100 language
By Louise Kinross It’s a bit of bling for the wheelchair, and security and control for the user. Lucy Jones—named one of the world’s brightest entrepreneurs by Forbes magazine in 2016 for designing clothes for people who use wheelchairs—launches a new line of wheelchair accessories today in New York City. A small US$49 metal clamp with a dock that fits on manual wheelchair tubing is being sold with two leather clutch bags and a cupholder that attach with magnets. It allows you to snap and secure a bag or cu
By Louise Kinross The ‘fool’ in Shakespeare’s plays and the ‘trickster’ in Indigenous stories held an important role in upending the status quo. A Holland Bloorview paper published this week in the Journal of Medical Humanities notes that the foolishness of therapeutic clowns—their emotional vulnerability and willingness to fail—is at the heart of their work with hospitalized children, producing a ‘joy without demands.’ Clown practices, however, are often seen as ‘secondary to the real work of medical pr
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Life With Georgia | by Nancy Walton