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Donna Thomson

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Donna Thomson is a caregiver, author and award-winning educator. She is the mother of two grown children, one who has severe cerebral palsy and medical complexity. Donna also helped care for her mother who lived with dementia until she passed away in the summer of 2018 at the age of 96. Donna is the co-author (with Dr. Zachary White) of The Unexpected Journey of Caring: The Transformation of Loved One to Caregiver (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) and author of The Four Walls of My Freedom: Lessons I’ve Learned From a Life of Caregiving (McArthur and Co., 2010 and The House of Anansi Press, 2014). She blogs regularly at The Caregivers’ Living Room. Donna is a co-designer and Co-Director of CanChild Family Engagement in Research Program as well a ...more

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A Free Safety Layer For Seniors Living Alone – CareTrigger

Hello fellow caregivers! This is a guest post about a FREE safety app that caregivers can use for senior friends or family members who live alone. I think it sounds great and I wish I had been able to access it when my Mom lived alone and refused to use any device for fall alerts. She was the stubborn parent described below! Read on and feel free to download and try out the app if you are caring f

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	The Unexpected Journey of Caring: The Transformation from Loved One to Caregiver by Donna Thomson (Goodreads Author), Zachary White (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 25 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Four Walls of My Freedom 3.69 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SourcePoint Therapy: Exploring the Blueprint of Health by Donna Thomson (Goodreads Author), Bob Schrei (With) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Comprehension: Years 1 and 2 by Donna Thomson (Goodreads Author), Cathy Hughes (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Four Walls of My Freedom by Donna Thomson (Goodreads Author), John Ralston Saul (Introduction) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Comprehension Practice Ages 7-8 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Comprehension: Year 5 by Donna Thomson (Goodreads Author), Elspeth Graham 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Donna Thomson wrote a new blog post A Free Safety Layer For Seniors Living Alone – CareTrigger Hello fellow caregivers! This is a guest post about a FREE safety app that caregivers can use for senior friends or family members who live alone. I t Read more of this blog post »
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“When you don’t dare dream about the future, the present is your only refuge.”
― Donna Thomson, The Unexpected Journey of Caring: The Transformation from Loved One to Caregiver

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