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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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Improving Palliative Care in Long-Term Care Homes Using Participatory Action Research
Read more about the project here. There is a clear and pressing need for palliative care approaches suitable to this complex healthcare environment, given the growing prevalence of residents with palliative care needs in LTC. To meet the project’s objective a multiple case study design and participatory action research approach was used to explore how…
Incorporating a frailty dimension into LOCUS for seniors in a medical-psychiatry population
Read more about the project here. Seniors with mental health disorders commonly have significant medical comorbidities that increase impairment, disability and health service utilization. Although high healthcare utilization rates by older adults have been well documented, no validated tools exist to accurately identify which patients within this population will require more healthcare resources than others….
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
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 ACP to improve the end-of-life…
Implementing a Risk Screening Tool in Primary Care for Older Frail Adults
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 challenging due to comorbidities, multiple…
Translating Science into Better Patient Care in the ICU
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 received during the ICU. Critically…
Implementing the ‘Frailty Portal’ in Community Primary Care Practice: Evaluating feasibility, effects and expansion needs
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 persons in their daily clinical…
Web-Based Videoconferencing (WBVC) for Rural Palliative Care Consultation in the Home
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 BSN degree from UBC and her…
Modeling changes in assessments to predict needs and guide care planning in home care
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 and has more than 20…
A scoping review of evidence for measuring frailty in hospital settings
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 what should be measured. Also choosing…