--- title: Uniting Around the Dream of Improving Senior Living and Healthcare description: Origin Active Lifestyle Communities is proud to develop and operate innovative, active living communities for the senior living industry. image: https://blog.originway.ca/hubfs/Blog%20Images/allen-devine.jpg --- [![Origin Active Lifestyle Communities Logo](https://blog.originway.ca/hubfs/August2017/Images/Logo-Copy.png) ![Origin Active Lifestyle Communities Logo](https://blog.originway.ca/hubfs/August2017/Images/origin_logo-copy-v2.png)](https://www.originway.ca/) Menu   [Find Your Community](https://www.originway.ca/communities) [Start Your Career](https://www.originway.ca/senior-living-careers) Give Us a Call Close X - [Origin at Longwood    250-751-7755](tel://1-250-751-7755) - [Origin at Spring Creek    403-678-2288](tel://1-403-678-2288) - [Swan Evergreen Village    587-481-6638](tel://1-587-481-6638) - [Whitehorn Village    403-271-2277](tel://1-403-271-2277) - [Origin Polska    +48 (22) 279 4900](tel://48-22-279-4900) - [Origin at Longwood    250-751-7755](tel://1-250-751-7755) - [Origin at Spring Creek    403-678-2288](tel://1-403-678-2288) - [Swan Evergreen Village    587-481-6638](tel://1-587-481-6638) - [Whitehorn Village    403-271-2277](tel://1-403-271-2277) - [Origin Polska    +48 (22) 279 4900](tel://48-22-279-4900) - [Discover Origin We want to show who we are](https://www.originway.ca/discover-origin-active-lifestyle-communities) - [Careers Make a difference](https://www.originway.ca/senior-living-careers) - [Communities See where we serve](https://www.originway.ca/communities) - [Why Active Living? See the studies](https://www.originway.ca/why-active-living-matters) - [The Beauty of Food Our approach to nourishment](https://www.originway.ca/the-beauty-of-food) - [Soul Cafe We take care of our team members](https://www.originway.ca/origin-soul-cafe) - [Resources Learn about senior living](https://www.originway.ca/senior-living-resources) --- [Press Room](https://www.originway.ca/origin-press-room) [Meet Our Community](https://www.originway.ca/origin-media) [Contact Us](https://www.originway.ca/contact-an-origin-active-lifestyle-community) [FAQs](https://www.originway.ca/frequently-asked-questions) [Origin International](https://www.originway.ca/origin/polska/) ### Subscribe # Uniting Around the Dream of Improving Senior Living and Healthcare Posted by [Origin Active Lifestyle Communities](https://blog.originway.ca/author/the-origin-team) on April 16, 2018 | **3 minute read** - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) ![allen devine](https://blog.originway.ca/hs-fs/hubfs/Blog%20Images/allen-devine.jpg?width=912&name=allen-devine.jpg) Origin Active Lifestyles is proud to develop and operate innovative, active living communities throughout Canada. Part of this innovation is understanding the importance technology plays in the senior living industry, and staying up-to-date with new and emerging technology solutions, as well as surrounding ourselves with others who are passionate about improving and reshaping the way we define “senior living”. Established in 2008 following the acquisition of EMERGIS, [TELUS Health](https://www.telushealth.co/) is now the largest EMR (Electronic Medical Records) provider in Canada; they understand the impact technology is having on healthcare and the senior living industry. Technology that can connect doctors and other healthcare physicians with one another and with their patients and can help turn information into better health outcomes. Leading this venture is TELUS’s “Dream Office” and their Chief Dreamer, Allen Devine. ## Improving the Lives of Seniors [As a caregiver for an aging parent](https://vimeo.com/173521227), Allen is one of over 8 million Canadians providing informal care to a family member. This experience and his love for technology is what inspired him to discover and utilize tools that could help him monitor his mother’s health. Technology like sensors that can be placed around a room or home and track regular behaviour patterns, but also track random or erratic behaviours, that may signal a health issue arising. As well as a mobile robot with video conferencing features that allow his mother to connect with her doctors and family members face-to-face. While beneficial on a personal level, these tools can be utilized in the senior living industry to provide better, faster care for those living in memory care, assisted or independent living communities. Who Are You *Before* You Are Sick? For TELUS Health as a whole, one of their main projects is focusing on Consumer Health and understanding the ecosystem surrounding a patient - evaluating patients pre-symptomatically and asking the question “Who are you before you are sick?”. By answering this question, Allen’s team is provided with a benchmark for measuring success regarding how medical treatments and antibiotics are impacting the patient. Origin embraces this same ideology by working to fully understand our community members to provide them with the highest level of customized care possible.  ## Putting the Patient in Charge of Their Care Allen believes the most fascinating discovery his Dream Office has made was identifying the value of the caregiver circle and removing the patient from the center of it. When the patient is in the middle, Allen believes, this reduces their amount of involvement. Using Allen’s mother as an example, by pushing her to the edges of the caregiver circle and having her treatment plan in the middle, she became responsible for her own care. Although every case is unique, **Origin encourages our community members to be actively involved in their care plan so, together, we can create a plan that is as beneficial and customized to their needs and wants as possible. ** When asked how Allen saw the scope of healthcare and senior living transforming in the future, he said: “we are moving the hospital from the bottom of the cliff to the top of the road.” His team is working to get ahead of the curve and “preventing the need for the fall” which is evolving into better health outcomes. Although change is happening now in a fragmented sense, we have to agree on a dream and unite behind it to see change happen on a larger scale. Many times, we find reasons why we cannot do something, because of the how – “How is this possible?” or “How do we make this happen?" TELUS Health believes that if everyone unites around the same dream, the how will settle itself.  [Origin Active Lifestyles](https://www.originway.ca/discover-origin-active-lifestyle-communities) has the same belief in uniting behind a dream. Having watched his parents’ victories and struggles as team members in the senior living industry, our Founder, Neil Prashad, created the vision of providing a better way to care for seniors and the employees of senior communities and we continue to rally around that dream every day.   ### Written by [Origin Active Lifestyle Communities](https://blog.originway.ca/author/the-origin-team) #### **About Origin Active Lifestyle Blog** Origin’s only business is caring for seniors. We design, develop, and operate innovative, industry-leading, active lifestyle communities across Canada. Through our blog, we hope to share content and resources for aging adults and their families that are interested in active living and senior living resources.  ### Recent Posts ### Topics - [Active Aging (39)](https://blog.originway.ca/topic/active-aging) - [Health & Nutrition (35)](https://blog.originway.ca/topic/health-nutrition) - [Social Wellness (34)](https://blog.originway.ca/topic/social-wellness) - [Health and Wellness (21)](https://blog.originway.ca/topic/health-and-wellness) - [Independent Living (16)](https://blog.originway.ca/topic/independent-living) - [Senior Care (16)](https://blog.originway.ca/topic/senior-care) - [Caregiving (7)](https://blog.originway.ca/topic/caregiving) - [Community Member Spotlight (7)](https://blog.originway.ca/topic/community-member-spotlight) - [Budgeting & Finances (6)](https://blog.originway.ca/topic/budgeting-finances) - [Technology (6)](https://blog.originway.ca/topic/technology) - [Memory Care (5)](https://blog.originway.ca/topic/memory-care) - [Origin Communities (4)](https://blog.originway.ca/topic/origin-communities) - [Alzheimer's & Dementia (3)](https://blog.originway.ca/topic/alzheimers-dementia) - [Statistics (3)](https://blog.originway.ca/topic/statistics) - [Chef Spotlight (2)](https://blog.originway.ca/topic/chef-spotlight) - [Soul Café (2)](https://blog.originway.ca/topic/soul-café) - [gardening (2)](https://blog.originway.ca/topic/gardening) - [Featured (1)](https://blog.originway.ca/topic/featured) - [Guest Interview (1)](https://blog.originway.ca/topic/guest-interview) - [Origin Living Green (1)](https://blog.originway.ca/topic/origin-living-green) See all [![Origin Way Home Page](https://blog.originway.ca/hubfs/August2017/Images/Logo-Copy.png)](https://www.originway.ca/) [Contact Us](https://www.originway.ca/contact-an-origin-active-lifestyle-community) [FAQ](https://www.originway.ca/frequently-asked-questions) [Find Your Community](https://www.originway.ca/communities) Uncover your local Origin Active Lifestyle community - and discover a new way of life. Each of our retirement communities are one-of-a-kind and built with our community members in mind. [Start Your Career](https://originway.ca/career-board/) Origin creates exceptional places for you to work through fun and rewarding environments. We offer a ‘team-member-first’ company culture to help you succeed. [Privacy Policy](https://www.originway.ca/privacy-policy) [Sitemap](https://www.originway.ca/sitemap) © 2026 Origin Active Lifestyle, LLC, Powered By Origin