Illness Roadmaps
Below you will find Illness Roadmaps for Alzheimer's Disease, ALS, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Ovarian Cancer that were created in partnership with Health Canada.
If you have been diagnosed with any other progressive life-changing illness (eg. Other types of Dementia, Pulmonary Fibrosis, Congestive Heart Failure, Cirrhosis, Chronic Kidney Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, Severe Stroke, Multi-System Atrophy, Supranuclear Palsy etc) it is also possible to learn the illness roadmap.
We have provided you with a blank roadmap below so that you can go to your health care provider to fill one out for your specific illness. It may help if you bring your health care provider a print out of one of the completed illness roadmaps to help guide the discussion.
Ovarian Cancer
Both pages of this document are a Planning Roadmap. It was designed to help those who want more detailed information at all the stages. It will help you understand what key life changes to expect and what to prepare for. It can be used with or by healthcare providers to discuss the things most relevant for you so you can customize your care plan and decision making. This document also points you to resources from Ovarian Cancer Canada.
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Thank you to the following individuals for contributing to the Ovarian Cancer Roadmap (alphabetical order by last name):
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Nancy Fischer Mortifee (Volunteer Peer Support, Ovarian Cancer Canada), Melinda Gasson (OVdialogue Volunteer, Ovarian Cancer Canada), Salwa Maarouf, Sarah Mah (MD MSc FRCSC, Gynaecologic Oncologist, Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre, Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, McMaster University), Tiffany Morin (Patient Partner in Research [PPiR], Ovarian Cancer Canada), Danielle Olding (Graduate Student, Toronto Metropolitan University), Shannon Salvador (MD MSc FRCSC, President, The Society of Gynaecologic Oncology of Canada (GOC), Associate Professor, Gynecologic Oncology, McGill University, Program Director of Gynecologic Oncology Residency Program, Head of Colposcopy, Jewish General Hospital), Christa Slatnik (RN MN NP CON(C), Gynecologic Oncology, Cancer Care Manitoba), Christa Wood (Patient Partner in Research [PPiR], Ovarian Cancer Canada).
ALS Roadmap
Page One of this Roadmap was designed to help you get a birds eye view of your illness. It will help you understand where you are in your illness to allow for open conversations between patient, family and caregivers and health care teams to talk about where things are at now and what to expect later. Revisit this roadmap over time.
Page two is the Planning Roadmap. It was designed to help those who want more detailed information at all the stages. It will help you understand what key life changes to expect and what to prepare for. It can be used with or by healthcare providers to discuss the things most relevant for you so you can customize your care plan and decision making.
Download this resource today!
Thank you to the following individuals for contributing to the ALS Roadmap (alphabetical order):
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Dr. Michael Bonares (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre), Jennifer Bottoms (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre) and other interdisciplinary members of the Sunnybrook ALS clinic, Dr. Marvin Chum (McMaster University), Dr. Stacy Farber (United States), Dr. Wendy Johnston (University of Alberta), Dr. Colleen O’Connell (New Brunswick), and Dr. Kerri Schellenberg (University of Saskatchewan).
Alzheimer's Roadmap
Page One of this Roadmap was designed to help you get a birds eye view of your illness. It will help you understand where you are in your illness to allow for open conversations between patient, family and caregivers and health care teams to talk about where things are at now and what to expect later. Revisit this roadmap over time.
Page two is the Planning Roadmap. It was designed to help those who want more detailed information at all the stages. It will help you understand what key life changes to expect and what to prepare for. It can be used with or by healthcare providers to discuss the things most relevant for you so you can customize your care plan and decision making.
Download this resource today!
COPD Roadmap
Page One of this Roadmap was designed to help you get a birds eye view of your illness. It will help you understand where you are in your illness to allow for open conversations between patient, family and caregivers and health care teams to talk about where things are at now and what to expect later. Revisit this roadmap over time.
Page two is the Planning Roadmap. It was designed to help those who want more detailed information at all the stages. It will help you understand what key life changes to expect and what to prepare for. It can be used with or by healthcare providers to discuss the things most relevant for you so you can customize your care plan and decision making.
Download this resource today!
3.4 Generic Roadmap
Page One of this Roadmap was designed to help you get a birds eye view of your illness. It will help you understand where you are in your illness to allow for open conversations between patient, family and caregivers and health care teams to talk about where things are at now and what to expect later. Revisit this roadmap over time.
Page two is the Planning Roadmap. It was designed to help those who want more detailed information at all the stages. It will help you understand what key life changes to expect and what to prepare for. It can be used with or by healthcare providers to discuss the things most relevant for you so you can customize your care plan and decision making.
Download this resource today!