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Carla Velastegui
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Health tech meets long-term caregiving meets AI 🤝 driving smarter, kinder, person-centred care systems from the inside out. Healthcare Technologist | Caregiver Expert & Advocate🇨🇦🇨🇭🇺🇸
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Armine, thank you for highlighting the care economy and the critical work unpaid caregivers, mostly women, do! This resonates with my advocacy on the impact of unpaid care and how governments/workplaces/society as a whole, are missing this growing and critical component of our economy.
Heading to #HLTHEurope in Amsterdam this week as a patient and caregiver advocate 🇳🇱

Excited to learn how people across Europe are applying technology in new approaches to #healthcare, and to connect with others centering lived experience in the future of care.

Let me know if you’ll be there!
Heading to #HIMSS25Europe in Paris 🇫🇷 as a patient & caregiver advocate! Excited to explore how patient & caregiver voices shape digital health and connect with others innovating care through tech. Hope to meet some of you there!
Think you might need home &community care someday? You’re probably right. It keeps seniors safe, supports people with complex needs, gives caregivers a lifeline AND eases pressure on hospitals & LTC.
OCSA’s new campaign is calling on Ontarians to speak up, Send a letter to your MPP #EveryoneNeedsHCC
Everyone Needs Care
www.everyoneneedscare.ca
Honoured to join a thoughtful and dynamic panel exploring Ontario’s health system capacity. Always inspired by the AMS Healthcare community driving systems rooted in compassion, innovation and the realities of our communities 💪
For 2025 AMS Fellow Development Day, we’re bringing together our Fitzgerald Fellows and Compassion & AI Fellows to tackle one of Ontario’s most urgent healthcare challenges—capacity!

#AMS2025

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Where are we now with AI? Where are we headed?

The first panel of #AMS2025 is exploring the future horizon of what AI has to offer in healthcare with perspectives from Mark Daley, Jude Kong (@dzevela.bsky.social), Zayna Khayat (@zaynakhayat.bsky.social), and Vu Ngo.

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Caregiving shapes us in profound ways. Shifting our identity, well-being, and how we see and experience the world. Grateful to be part of this conversation with @npr.org highlighting the unseen impact of caregiving and the resilience it builds.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Apr 2
Helping a sick family member over months or years can be an enormous strain. It can also disrupt your identity. Psychologists say embracing this change can open up new ways for caregivers to cope.
Caregiving can test you, body and soul. It can also unlock a new sense of self
Helping a sick family member over months or years can be an enormous strain. It can also disrupt your identity. Psychologists say embracing this change can open up new ways for caregivers to cope.
www.npr.org
Yet, despite how common and transformative this experience is, it often goes unrecognized in workplaces, healthcare, social systems, and society at large.
1 in 4 Canadians is a caregiver - this conversation matters!
How has caregiving changed you? 💡 #CaregiverAdvocacy #WorkingCaregivers
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