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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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…
Interventions to prevent and treat frailty in community-dwelling older adults: a scoping review
The Canadian population is aging. With aging comes increased vulnerability; that is, older adults’ ability to recover from acute illnesses and other stresses related to the physical aging processes (such as falls) declines. This increased vulnerability is also known as frailty. Frailty is common in older adults and is associated with increased health care service…
Discharging Elders from ED to Community: What You Need to Know?
In Canada, around 400,000 independent-living seniors/year sustain injuries that limit their functional mobility. Around 65% of them seek care in Emergency Departments (EDs), 70% of whom are discharged home (CIHI, 2010). The Canadian Emergency and Trauma Initiative in elders (CETIe) has confirmed that minor injuries can trigger a downward spiral of functional decline in 15-18%…
Decision-making and communication tools for hospitalized patients (DECIDE-II-COMMUNICATE)
The majority of elderly and seriously--ill Canadians prefer to avoid aggressive life--sustaining treatment at the end of life, and remain at home to receive comfort--oriented care. Yet most Canadians die in an institution, often receiving aggressive care that is associated with a poor quality of life. One of the major contributors to unwanted aggressive end--of--life…
Describing care received by frail elderly patients nearing EOL in Canada
Despite the development of a range of resources and services in Canada to meet the needs of the frail seniors, the system of care continues to be challenged by a fragmentation of services which adversely influences service accessibility and efficiency. The objective of this environmental scan is to inform policy and practice to ensure that…
Development and testing of a standardized communication form to improve transitions for nursing home residents
One of the key findings from the Older Persons’ Transitions in Care (OPTIC) study is the need to improve communication among health care providers involved in the handover of frail elderly residents during transfers to and from the emergency department. These transitions from long term care to emergency departments and back are facilitated by personnel…
Frailty measure for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities make up 1 to 3% of Canadians. They are living longer; by 2021, it is projected that the number of seniors (65 years +) with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Ontario will almost double from 6,000 to 10,000. They are higher users of health care including aging care. In…