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, January 9, 2019 at noon ET: New Approaches to Evaluating Frailty in Solid Organ Transplantation — Lianne Singer, University Health Network (FRA2015-B-13)
Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at noon ET: Pilot study of an automated one-year mortality prediction tool to trigger Advance Care Planning — James Downar, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (CAT2015-16)
Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at noon ET: Cardiac Surgery among the Frail and Elderly Towards Optimal Decision Making — Greg Hirsch, Nova Scotia Health Authority (FRA2015-B-22)
Thursday, February 28, 2019 at noon ET: Care of acutely ill older persons living with frailty: Making health care work like a system — John Hirdes & George Heckman, University of Waterloo (SIG2014F-31)
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Innovation for toilet relocation to ease access for frail elderly at home & Wearable caregiver posture coaching feedback system
Read more about HTIG2014-07 and HTIG2014-11. Innovation for toilet relocation to ease access for frail elderly at home The ability to get on and off the toilet can mean the difference between living at home and having to move into long-term care for frail older adults. Osteoarthritis, affecting over 7 million people in the US…
iGAP- Improving General Practice Advance Care Planning
Click here to view the slides (no audio). Read more about the project here. Advance Care Planning (ACP) is a communication process wherein people plan for a time when they cannot make decisions for themselves. It includes reflection, deliberation and determination of a person’s values and wishes or preferences for treatments at the end-of-life. Evidence supports the effectiveness of…
Implementing a Risk Screening Tool in Primary Care for Older Frail Adults
Click here to view the slides (no audio) Read more about the project here. Population aging has led to a greater number of seniors, many of whom suffer from multiple ongoing health problems. Unfortunately, the health care system is currently designed to deal with single, sudden and usually curable problems. Providing care to older adults living with frailty is…
Translating Science into Better Patient Care in the ICU
Click here to view the slides (no audio) Read more about the project here. The transfer from the ICU to another hospital ward can result in more adverse events because they go to a unit with less intensive care and less resources. Moving from one unit to another can also result in loss of information about the care…
Implementing the ‘Frailty Portal’ in Community Primary Care Practice: Evaluating feasibility, effects and expansion needs
Click here to view the slides (no audio) Read more about the project here. In this community-based study we assessed the implementation feasibility and impact of the ‘Frailty Portal’ in the identification, raising awareness of, care planning and delivery of appropriate care for the frail population in community primary care practice. Primary Healthcare (PHC) providers regularly encounter frail…
Web-Based Videoconferencing (WBVC) for Rural Palliative Care Consultation in the Home
Click here to view the slides (no audio) Read more about the project here. Linda Read Paul, RN, MN, CHPCN(C) is a Clinical Associate Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at University of Calgary. She is also a Clinical Nurse Specialist-Palliative Care with the Alberta Health Services Calgary Zone Rural Palliative Care Consultation Team. Linda earned her…
Modeling changes in assessments to predict needs and guide care planning in home care
Click here to view the slides (no audio) Read more about the project here. Debra Sheets, PhD, MSN, RN, FAAN is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Victoria. She received her PhD in Gerontology and Public Policy from the University of Southern California. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing…
A scoping review of evidence for measuring frailty in hospital settings
Click here to view the slides (no audio) Read more about the project here. Providing healthcare to an aging population presents both challenges and opportunities. On the frontier of these challenges and opportunities is how we understand and respond to frailty. Identifying frailty early in clinical care is vital but consensus has not yet been reached on…
Evidence Review: Antidepressants for Frail Older Adults with Depression or Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia
Click here to view the slides (no audio) Read more about the project here. Polypharmacy, the use of more medications than is clinically necessary, is a significant problem among frail, older adults. With this in mind, we appraised the evidence for the efficacy and safety of antidepressants in frail, older adults, as they appear to be commonly prescribed…
Frailty Assessment of Older Canadians Using Emergency Services with Tablet Technology
Click here to view the slides (no audio) Read more about the project here. The Frailty Assessment of Older Canadians Using Emergency Services (FOCUS) study tested the real-world implementation of a user-friendly tablet based technology to identify high-risk older adults with frailty or problems with their thinking such as delirium or dementia. The study checked whether…