Webinars
CFN believes that caring for older adults living with frailty is a complex, Canada-wide issue that requires multi-faceted, national strategies and solutions, and our monthly webinars are one way we bring together talented people to focus on this goal.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2019 at 12 noon EST: Developing patient-provider partnerships across the system – Paul Stolee & Jacobi Elliott, University of Waterloo
Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 12 noon EST: Integrated Approach to Palliative Care in Acute Care (iPAC-AC) – Kelli Stajduhar, University of Victoria, Neil Hilliard, Fraser Health Authority & Richard Sawatzky, Trinity Western University
Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 12 noon EST: Elder-friendly Approaches to the Surgical Environment-using Biological samples to Identify & provide Optimized care (EASE-BIO) – Rachel Khadaroo & Amritpal Bhullar, University of Alberta
Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at noon EST: Supporting quality of life assessments of frail older adults and their family caregivers – Richard Sawatzky, Trinity Western University & Kara Schick-Makaroff, University of Alberta
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Making SENSE with Families in Long-term Care: A Knowledge-to-Action Study
VIEW THE SLIDES (NO AUDIO) READ MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT Over 250,000 Canadians live in long-term care homes. By 2038, families of residents will be giving over 107 million hours of care each year. In general, the role of families and friends in this setting has been unclear. They have been thought of as visitors,…
The Carer Support Needs Assessment (CSNAT) Intervention: Supporting Family Caregivers of Palliative Patients at Home
READ MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT Most people who are seriously ill prefer to receive care and to die at home, often depending on family caregivers (FCGs). FCGs usually provide the majority of care that the ill person receives, and often face considerable emotional, social, financial and physical burdens. Even though FCG support needs are recognized…
Shared decision making for goals-of-care discussions in the ICU: Evaluation of an online training module and decision aid
VIEW THE SLIDES (NO AUDIO) READ MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT Recent studies show more older persons living with frailty are being put on life support in their final days and are dying in hospital and those who survive struggle with recovering. Shared decision making supported by decision aids help professionals discuss the risks and benefits…
Care of acutely ill older persons living with frailty: Making health care work like a system
View the slides (no audio) Read more about the project This project aimed to better understand the trajectory of care (what makes older persons vulnerable and what are risk factors for them ending up in hospital and intensive care units) and once admitted, what determined their long term function and how they recovered from acute…
Cardiac Surgery among Older Adults Living with Frailty Towards Optimal Decision Making
View the slides (no audio) Read more about the project Previous research has demonstrated that frailty among cardiac surgery patients confers increased risk of mortality, major morbidity and prolonged institutional care and described, in a Canadian context, a marked increase in frail and elderly patients referred for cardiac surgery interventions over the last decade. However, the…
Pilot study of an automated one-year mortality prediction tool to trigger Advance Care Planning
View the slides (no audio): Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 Read more about the project. Canadians prefer to avoid aggressive life-sustaining treatments at the end-of-life, but they often receive this care because their healthcare team failed to engage in ACP before they became seriously ill. It can be challenging to identify patients who…
A New Approach to Evaluating Frailty in Solid Organ Transplantation
Click here to view the slides (no audio). Read more about the project here. Solid organ transplantation is a life-saving treatment for people with organ failure, but organ donors and recipients must be chosen carefully since transplants are risky and donor organs are so scarce. In recent years, transplant programs have been accepting older donors and recipients with…
A National Comparison of Intensity of End-of-Life Care in Canada: Defining Changing Patterns, Risk Factors and Targets for Intervention
Click here to view the slides (no audio). Read more about the project here. Up to 70% of older patients are admitted to hospital and/or intensive care units at the end-of-life; however, when asked, most would prefer a less aggressive treatment plan focusing on providing comfort rather than a technologically supported, institutionalized death. This care that may be…
FRAMING-LTC: Frailty and Recognizing Appropriate Medications IN Geriatrics and Long-Term Care
Click here to view the slides (no audio). Read more about the project here. Older adults in LTC often have multiple chronic conditions that increase their exposure to multiple medications. This places them at risk for PIM use, adverse events and high health care utilization. Optimal prescribing for vulnerable older populations, particularly those in LTC, may be influenced…
Mixed Methods feasibility study of group peer support interventions to engage the public in ACP
Click here to view the slides (no audio). Read more about the project here. Advance Care Planning (ACP) encourages us all to be more actively involved in decision making about healthcare. Although ACP is something we can do on our own, we often require support from others. Most studies in ACP have focused on experts within the healthcare…