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.
Currently in the scheduling process. Please monitor this page for updates.
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Supporting quality of life assessments of frail older adults and their family caregivers
VIEW THE SLIDES READ MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT LEARN MORE ABOUT QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENTS Older adults living at home facing frailty and chronic illness, and their family caregivers, often experience challenges affecting their quality of life. Their priorities must be addressed by healthcare providers. Unfortunately, these are easily overlooked in the “hustle and bustle”…
Elder-friendly Approaches to the Surgical Environment-using Biological samples to Identify & provide Optimized care (EASE-BIO)
VIEW THE SLIDES PART 1 VIEW THE SLIDES PART 2 READ MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT Our research group has recently shown that using radiologic tools to assess severe muscle depletion (sarcopenia) is a strong predictor of older patients’ postoperative survival following emergency surgery. Sarcopenia has also been shown to be associated with loss of function,…
Integrated Approach to Palliative Care in Acute Care (iPAC-AC)
VIEW THE SLIDES (NO AUDIO) READ MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT Many older adults in Canada die from life-limiting illnesses such as heart, lung and kidney disease, cancer, dementia and frailty. Of these older adults, the large majority will die in acute care hospitals where the quality of care has been reported to be one where patients…
Developing patient-provider partnerships across the system
READ MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT Many older adults and their families want to be involved in making decisions about their care, but this doesn’t always happen. Phrases such as “patient-centred care” and “patient engagement” are used frequently, but often without any concrete meaning for patients, their family caregivers, or their health care providers. In this…
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…