Dealing With a Disability/Serious Illness
- Being proactive
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Your To Do List
Prevention is the best medicine. Read up on how you can stay healthy and manage your health and well-being.
Helpful resources for being proactive
- How to Talk to Your Doctor
- Osteoporosis: Lifelong Prevention
- Bone Builders: Understanding and Preventing Osteoporosis
- Wise and Well: Smart Choices for Healthy Aging
- Growing Older Eating Wiser
- Your Family History: Proactively Protecting Your Health
- Facts About You and the Flu
- Eating Away at Colds and Flu
- Heart Smarts: Quick Tips to Stay Heart Healthy
- Understanding and Avoiding Burnout
- Keeping healthy while helping others
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Your To Do List
In this stage we recommend:
A friend, family member or colleague with a serious illness and disability can cause you to have mixed emotions. These resources will help you learn how you can support them, and successfully cope with your own feelings.
Helpful resources for Keeping Healthy while helping others
- What to Do When Your Family Member Is Being Discharged from the Hospital
- When It’s Time to Step In: Convincing Older Parents to Get Extra Help
- Knowing How to Help Aging Parents
- Caring for a Terminally Ill Family Member
- Parenting a Child With a Disability
- Supporting a Worker With a Serious Illness
- Supporting a Co-Worker Through Grief or Illness
- Understanding a Co-Worker’s Grief or Illness
- Short-term disability
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Your To Do List
In this stage we recommend:
- Review the “Helpful Resources” on the Health & Well-Being page for information on diseases and conditions
- Consider speaking with a personal counsellor
- Review your company’s leave policies
- Understand how your leave will affect your employee benefits
- Understand how your leave will affect your retirement and/or savings programs
- Review your retirement and/or savings account balances
- Review your budget and consider consulting with a financial advisor
- Consider signing up for the Online Stress Management Program
If you are on short-term disability leave, there are resources available to help you through this time.
Helpful resources for short-term disability
- Trying to Stay Positive During an Illness
- Less Pain, More Gain: Addressing Chronic Pain
- Coping With the News of a Cancer Diagnosis
- Understanding and Treating Lung Cancer
- Understanding Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Treatment Options
- Budgeting: Living Within Your Means
- How to Create a Budget and Manage Your Money
- Long-term disability
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Your To Do List
In this stage we recommend:
- Consider speaking with a personal counsellor
- Understand how your leave will affect your employee benefits
- Understand how your leave will affect your retirement and/or savings programs
- Review your retirement and/or savings account balances
- Ensure your beneficiary designations are up-to-date for your employee benefit program
- Ensure your retirement and/or savings program beneficiary designations are up-to-date
- Review your budget and consider consulting with a financial advisor
If you are going to be on long-term disability leave, these resources can help you with your financial, mental and physical health.
Helpful resources for long-term disability
- Recovery/return to work
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Your To Do List
Recovering from a serious illness or disability has its challenges. Take the stress out of returning to work by exploring these resources to help you prepare.
Helpful resources for recovery/return to work
Your Employee and Family Assistance Program provides this resource. Request access to this service through Online Access or contact the Care Access Centre at 1 800 387-4765.
Your Employee and Family Assistance Program provides this resource. Request access to this service through the Online Access or contact the Care Access Centre at 1 800 387-4765.
Your Employee and Family Assistance Program provides this resource. Request access to this service through Online Access or contact the Care Access Centre at 1 800 387-4765.
Your Employee and Family Assistance Program provides this resource. Request access to this service through Online Access or contact the Care Access Centre at 1 800 387-4765.
Your Employee and Family Assistance Program provides this resource. Request access to this service through Online Access or contact the Care Access Centre at 1 800 387-4765.
Your Employee and Family Assistance Program provides this resource. Contact the Care Access Centre at 1 800 387-4765.
Your Employee and Family Assistance Program provides this resource. Request access to this service through the Online Access or contact the Care Access Centre at 1 800 387-4765.
Your Employee and Family Assistance Program provides this resource. Request access to this service through Online Access or contact the Care Access Centre at 1 800 387-4765.
Your Employee and Family Assistance Program provides this resource. Contact the Care Access Centre at 1 800 387-4765.
Your Employee and Family Assistance Program provides this resource. Request access to this service through Online Access or contact the Care Access Centre at 1 800 387-4765.
Your Employee and Family Assistance Program provides this resource. Request access to this service through Online Access or contact the Care Access Centre at 1 800 387-4765.
Your Employee and Family Assistance Program provides this resource. Contact the Care Access Centre at 1 800 387-4765.
Your Employee and Family Assistance Program provides this resource. Request access to this service through Online Access or contact the Care Access Centre at 1 800 387-4765.
Your Employee and Family Assistance Program provides this resource. Contact the Care Access Centre at 1 800 387-4765.
