Can digital care improve mental health?

With a mental health crisis looming, Canadians look to digital solutions

Here we are, in 2021, more than a year after the start of a pandemic that nobody could have predicted. With concerns over vaccines, travel bubbles and COVID-19 variants, it almost makes sense that our collective mental health seems to be deteriorating.

Reports seem to be rolling in almost daily about workers’ mental health and, spoiler alert, it is not looking great for a number of industries, with health care and education being particularly affected. Mental health has become an increasingly important topic in the OHS for the last few years, but the pandemic has certainly accelerated this trend.

Since the start of the pandemic, I have found myself writing on the topic on an almost daily basis. The facts are frightening, and it only seems to be getting worse. Nevertheless, it seems as if solutions are multiplying to support Canadians during these trying times. As many services have shifted online, so, it seems, has health.