Nursing home solutions with Homecare Hub
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In this episode, Dan speaks with Dr. Vipan Nikore, founder and CEO of Homecare Hub. What is Homecare Hub? Homecare Hub is a purpose-driven team with a bold vision to keep people out of large institutional nursing homes by building creative solutions that decrease the cost, and improve the quality and experience of receiving home care services. Our healthcare system is overwhelmed, and people with complex healthcare needs face challenges to preserve their current living situation. Homecare Hub was created to address the housing and home care needs of these individuals offering...
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Long-Term Care Staffing Policies Pre-COVID-19 and Pandemic Responses: A Case Comparison of Ontario and British Columbia, With Dr. Patrick Patterson
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Daniel Smiley, Research & Logistics Specialist, is your new host as Jenna takes on more responsibilities at the APPTA Hub. He welcomes Dr. Patrick Patterson to discuss his recent publications on long-term care policies pre- and post-COVID-19. We’re all aging, and everyone’s talking about it! Key Takeaways [:41] Daniel Smiley introduces himself as your new host and welcomes Dr. Patrick Patterson and asks him to share a top-level summary of his paper. [1:38] Dr. Patterson talks about how Canadian differences in pandemic responses guided the focus of this...
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Dance Your Way to Health
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Jenna welcomes Dr. Grant Handrigan, professor at the Université de Moncton to talk about his long-running project Dance Your Way to Health and the upcoming results. We’re all aging, and everyone’s talking about it! Key Takeaways [:41] Jenna welcomes Dr. Grant Handrigan and asks him to share how his project Dance Your Way to Health came about, four years ago, and how it was anchored with the Grouille ou Rouille community group, founded in 1981. [5:11] Dr. Grant explains sedentary behaviour and lists the multiple benefits of regular physical activity. [8:11] The...
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Implementing Virtual Reality in Advanced Fall Prevention, Building Resilience and Balancing Risk
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The Enhanced Community Pathway
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Jenna welcomes Karine Levesque, Co-lead of the Enhanced Community Pathway program, currently in its pilot phase. They discuss the importance of offering a comprehensive and centralized health and social development proposition for frail seniors in crisis. We’re all aging, and everyone’s talking about it! Key Takeaways [:41] Jenna welcomes Karine Levesque to talk about her project and the inspiration for it, but first, she asks her to define Enhanced Community Pathway. [2:53] Karine talks about the combined health and social system approach her project takes with the...
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Creative Pathways to Healthy Aging, Senior and Youth Engaged
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Jenna welcomes Judy Murphy, Executive Director at Elizabeth Fry New Brunswick, and Cecile Proctor from the University of New Brunswick to discuss their project using the creative arts to create intergenerational connections between low-income youth and seniors. We’re all aging, and everyone’s talking about it! Key Takeaways [:41] Jenna welcomes Judy Murphy and Cecile Proctor to discuss the project they are co-piloting, Creative Pathways to Healthy Aging, Senior and Youth Engaged which works with older and younger generations. [1:27] The Bridging the Gap project was the...
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A Pharmacy-Hospital Discharge: Transitions of Care Project to Facilitate Transfer of Care Between Pharmacy Practice Settings and Improve Patient Medication Knowledge and Medication Experience at Hospital Discharge — Or: the Hospital to Home Pharmacy Pr
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Jenna welcomes Carole Goodine, a practicing pharmacist, manager, and researcher for Horizon Health Network, Pharmacy services. Carole maintains a clinical pharmacy practice on the Healthy Aging and Rehabilitation unit at the Doctor Everett Chalmers Hospital (DECH) in Fredericton, NB, and participates in antipsychotic review rounds on the Transitional Care Unit at DECH. Carole’s training includes a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy, Accredited Hospital Pharmacy Residency program, Doctor of Pharmacy degree, and post-doctoral fellowship. Her research interests include inpatient medication...
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2RaceWithMe Project, Promoting Engagement and Physical Activity in Long-Term Care Centers
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In today’s episode, Jenna welcomes four guests to talk about a novel research project! From Centiviser Incorporated and the University of Toronto, Dr. Mark Chignell, Developer of the 2RaceWithMe device and Lisa Fannin, Educator and Volunteer. And from the Center of Innovation and Research in Aging (CIRA), Executive Director Justine Henry and Research Coordinator Debbie Barton. The project team would like to acknowledge the contribution of Principal Investigator Dr. Jalila Jbilou, M.D., Ph.D., Professeure agrégée, From the School of Psychology and the Centre for Medical Training in...
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Improving Access to Healthcare for Elders of the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation
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Jenna welcomes Dr. France Chassé, co-leader of the Madawaska’s Elders Initiatives Project with Micheline Plante, Community Health Representative at the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation. They discuss the health needs of the aging population of the community. They talk about technology to assist them, especially a custom mobile app and other services developed to help seniors live safely at home longer. We’re all aging, and everyone’s talking about it! Key Takeaways [:45] Jenna welcomes today’s guest, Dr. France Chassé. [1:13] Dr. Chassé explains the Madawaska’s Elders...
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Spread and Scale of a Polypharmacy App to Improve Health Outcomes of Older Adults Living in New Brunswick Nursing Homes
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Jenna welcomes the team working on a deprescribing pilot project to the show. The project’s Research Coordinators Cody Davenport and Marc-Éric Nadeau accompany Justine Henry — executive director at CIRA — as well as project lead Dr. Emily MacDonald from McGill University in a discussion on the impacts of polypharmacy and the benefits of deprescription in older adults. We’re all aging, and everyone’s talking about it! Key Takeaways [:40] Jenna welcomes today’s guests and starts off the conversation with Justine Henry on an overview of who CIRA is and what they do. [3:07] Dr....
info_outlineDr. Allison Luke, Research Associate with the Center for Research in Integrated Care (CRIC) at the University of New Brunswick Saint John, and Amy Reid, Project Coordinator with the CRIC, joins the show to discuss their project Co-Designing Dementia Care.
We’re all aging, and everyone’s talking about it!
Key Takeaways
[:40] Jenna welcomes today’s guests Dr. Alison Luke and Amy Reid and invites them to explain a bit about the Co-Design part of dementia care and the multi-country and scope of this five-phase project.
[4:49] Amy touches on how this five-country — and three-Canadian-province — project was orchestrated, the protocol that was followed by all participants, and some of the challenges they faced.
[8:33] Communicating information about dementia comes with its own set of particular challenges; Dr. Luke touches on how these challenges affect the healthcare providers and the family, as well as the patient.
[14:05] Phase 1 (the needs assessment phase) of the project provided interesting learnings on how the diagnosis affects care providers and patients, but it also showed some positive aspects of receiving this diagnosis.
[16:28] Accessing care post-diagnosis is a reality, Dr. Luke speaks to “you don’t know what you don’t know” as well as how a few other ways empowering people can prevent a lot of negative outcomes.
[18:18] Dr. Luke highlights the importance of their main community partner, the Alzheimer’s Society. She also shares the long list of other contributors who helped make this project possible.
[20:45] The website, which launched on November 15th, works to spread awareness, Amy also shares the other functions it fulfills for patients and caretakers.
[22:41] What does the future hold for such a large project? Dr. Luke talks about Phase 5 of the project on sustainability led by Poland and the WHO representative that is helping move this forward.
[25:21] Jenna thanks Dr. Alison Luke and Amy Reid for coming on the podcast. Until next time, subscribe, rate, and share!
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/FWDDementia_CA
To share your experiences about accessing dementia care, or to give feedback on the Forward with Dementia initiative, please visit the evaluation page on their website here: https://www.forwardwithdementia.org/ca-en/get-involved-in-research/ ). There are several ways to participate, including a short survey or an individual interview. The team is looking forward to hearing from persons with dementia, care partners, as well as health or social care providers.
For general inquiries about forward with dementia, contact: info@forward-avancer.ca
More about your hosts
More about today’s guest
Dr. Alison Luke is a Research Associate with The Centre for Research in Integrated Care (CRIC) at the University of New Brunswick Saint John. She was the Crawford/Jarislowsky Post-Doctoral Fellow in Health Policy from 2015-2018. Alison completed her PhD in Sociology at the University of Waterloo. Alison’s research focuses on the development, implementation, and evaluation of models of care that seek to improve integration and care coordination in the healthcare system. Most recently, she is working on several projects that seek to improve care coordination for individuals with complex care needs, their caregivers, and members of the care team.
Find out more about Dr. Alison Luke on the University of New Brunswick Saint-John website.
Amy Reid s a Project Coordinator at The Centre for Research in Integrated Care (CRIC) at the University of New Brunswick Saint John. She completed her Undergraduate degree in Psychology at St Thomas University in 2017, followed by her Master's in Applied Health Services Research at the University of New Brunswick in 2019.
Find out more about Amy Reid on LinkedIn.