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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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)
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at noon ET: Evaluation of a context-adapted wiki-based decision aid supporting critically ill patients’ decisions about life-sustaining therapies — Patrick Archambault, Université Laval (CAT2015-35)
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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…
E-CYCLE: Clinical trial of in-bed cycling in elderly, mechanically-ventilated patients
Click here to view the slides (no audio) Read more about the project here. Patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) are the sickest in hospital, and often need advanced life support such as breathing machines. Survivors of critical illness are typically very weak and disabled. Up to one in four have severe leg weakness…
Pilot study of MEdication RAtionalization intervention
Click here to view the slides (no audio) Read more about the project here. A large majority of Canadians die during or soon after an admission to an acute hospital, where the focus is often on reversing acute conditions rather than providing comfort care for patients with a short prognosis. This focus leads to the…
Fostering End-of-Life Conversations, Care and Community Among LGBT Older Canadians
Click here to view the slides (no audio) Read more about the project here. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) older adults are more likely to age alone, with limited support, and in a stigmatizing environment where they are often poorly served by traditional social services and hesitant to avail themselves of the same. The…
Sex differences in admission to ICU: exploring the role of social support factors
Click here to view the slides (no audio) Read more about the project here. This study will address issues of equity related to access to critical care. The investigators will assess whether the differences in admission to Intensive Care Units for men and women over the age of 65 years are due to differences in…