About KYR

Knowing Your Rights

About Knowing Your Rights

Knowing Your Rights helps Muslim seniors, caregivers and families understand Alberta home care in plain language.

KYR provides educational information designed to help people understand home-care pathways, prepare for conversations and ask clearer questions.

Know Your Rights. Protect Your Family.

Quick orientation

Home-care information made easier to understand

KYR provides educational information designed to help people understand home-care pathways, prepare for conversations and ask clearer questions.

Alberta-focused

Information is developed around Alberta home-care and continuing-care pathways.

Plain language

We explain complex information in a way that is easier to follow.

Community-informed

KYR is developed with the experiences and questions of Muslim seniors, caregivers and families in mind.

Freely accessible educational resources

KYR provides educational information and resources that visitors can access freely through the website.

Multilingual educational resources

KYR is developing multilingual educational resources to make home-care information more accessible to the communities we serve.

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Sometimes you need more than a quick answer.

KYR also develops and provides deeper educational material for Muslim seniors, caregivers and families who want to better understand Alberta home care and the systems around it.

KYR's educational program addresses areas such as:

  • home-care pathways;
  • care planning;
  • questions seniors, caregivers and families can ask;
  • different ways home care may be arranged;
  • what to consider when circumstances change; and
  • how to better understand the information provided during home-care conversations.

These subjects may be addressed through presentations, educational resources and community-based learning as KYR materials and activities are developed and delivered.

The goal is not to tell you what decision to make.

The goal is to help you become better informed so you can participate more confidently in conversations about care.

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Learn more about KYR educational topics, presentations and community education.

Who we are

Community Care Education Society of Alberta

Knowing Your Rights is a community education initiative focused on helping Muslim seniors, caregivers and families better understand Alberta home care.

We believe people should be able to access understandable information before they are expected to navigate complicated systems, ask important questions or participate in conversations about care.

KYR brings together plain-language education, community experience and Alberta-focused information to make those conversations easier to approach.

Our role is educational.

We do not determine eligibility, prescribe care, make medical decisions, provide legal advice or decide what services a person should receive.

For more about the Society, our mission and why KYR was created:

Our Mission & Who We Are
Community, languages & access

Built for the communities we serve

KYR was created with Muslim seniors, caregivers and families in mind.

Home-care information can be difficult enough to understand without also facing unfamiliar terminology, language barriers or systems that were never clearly explained.

Our educational approach emphasizes:

Plain-language learning

Information should be understandable without requiring professional or system knowledge.

Community-based education

KYR may use presentations, educational activities and community-based learning to provide opportunities for explanation, questions and discussion.

Multilingual educational resources

KYR is developing multilingual educational resources to help make home-care information more accessible to the communities we serve.

Accessible educational information

KYR provides website-based educational information and resources that people can use to begin learning about Alberta home care.

Everyone's circumstances are different, but everyone should have the opportunity to understand the questions they may need to ask.

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Want a deeper understanding of home care?

Explore KYR educational topics, presentations and community learning.

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