This is what seven years of partnership looks like! Paraglide inventor Matt MacKenzie and Christopher Morse of Northwood are all smiles behind those masks as Paraglide repositioning systems are delivered to the facility where the idea for the technology got its start. Christopher and his colleague Gail Giffen, both Occupational Therapists at Northwood, identified the need for a better solution to repositioning residents in wheelchairs years ago, as they saw — first hand — too

With funding from the Nova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness, 21 nursing homes purchased the first 107 ever produced Paraglide automated repositioning systems for wheelchair users. These purchases, made under a Continuing Care Innovation Pilot Program, are required to evaluate the technology to determine if (or to what degree) it will help achieve key Continuing Care priorities, specifically making the workplace safer for nursing home staff, improving efficiencies or r