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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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…
Talk to me: seriously ill patients’ views on physician behaviours that influence the quality of end-of-life communication
Click here to view the slides (no audio) Read more about the project here. Talk to Me was a study where patients at four hospitals in Ontario and Alberta were surveyed and interviewed to better understand the communication needs of patients engaged in end-of-life conversations with their physicians. Prior to the study, work at Canadian hospitals…
NCARE: Volunteer and healthcare provider partnerships to provide navigation for rural, frail older adults
Click here to view the slides (no audio) Read more about the project here. Assisting the frail rural elderly to age in place is essential to quality of life at end of life. An innovative way to assist older adults to age in place is to provide navigation services where a knowledgeable individual advocates, facilitates community…
Improve decision making involving frail elderly and caregivers on location of care
Click here to view the slides (no audio) Read more about the project here. One of the toughest decisions faced by the frail elderly in Canada is whether to stay at home or move to a care facility. It is certainly difficult to make this decision alone, but can be even harder if someone else…