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 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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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…
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…