Programme

Day 1: September 26

8:30am

Welcome

9:40am-10:40am

Identifying Frailty: Who? When? Why?

Presenters will consider how frailty assessment and identification can have tremendous impact on treatment, services, and outcomes for older adults.

Chair: Greg Hirsch, MD, Professor of Surgery and Director of Research in the Department of Surgery, Dalhousie University

• Establishing Shared Decision Making Among Vulnerable Patients Referred for Cardiac Surgery

Speakers:

• Sarah Tam Lee – Advanced Practice Leader- Rehab, SE Health & Elizz and Bethany Kwok, RN, BScN, MN- Advanced Practice Leader, SE Health for Seniors Living
  • SE Health Reactivation Care Model – Empowering clients to unlock their potential through an integrated, holistic approach to care

• Danielle Sinden – Manager, Centre of Excellence and Applied Research, The Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre and Ben Robert, MD – Medical Director, The Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre
  • The Sub-Acute Unit for Frail Elderly (SAFE Unit)

• Daniel McIsaac, MD, MPH, FRCPC – Associate Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
  • PReoperative Exercise to decrease PostoperAtive complication Rates and disability scorEs (PREPARE)

10:40am-10:55am

Special Presentation by Canada’s National Ballet School

10:55am-11:15am

Break

11:15am-12:15pm

It Takes a Village

Supportive communities can take on many forms. Presenters will describe how to best support older adults to live independently for as long as possible.

Chair: Wendy Duggleby, PhD, RN, AOCN- Associate Dean of Research & Endowed Nursing Research Chair in Aging and Quality of Life, University of Alberta Faculty of Nursing

• Volunteer Navigators Connecting, Accessing, Resourcing and Engaging (Nav-CARE) Making a Difference in the Lives of Older Persons with Chronic Illness and Their Communities

Speakers:

• Catherine Donnelly, B.Sc.(OT), MSc, PhD. – Associate Professor, School of Rehabilitation Therapy, Queen’s University
  • Oasis Senior Supportive Living

•  Frances Morton-Chang, MHSc, PhD- Adjunct Faculty Member, Institute for Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
  •  Seniors’ Campuses – Local Solutions for Broad Spectrum Seniors Care

• Eman Hassan, MD. MPH- Acting Executive Director & Director, Public Health Initiatives, BC Centre for Palliative Care
  • Compassionate Communities in British Columbia: An innovative social palliative care model

12:15pm-12:35pm

Special Presentation by Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod

12:35pm-2:35pm

Lunch and Networking

Don’t forget to visit the Top Innovators at the Storyboard Forum and vote for Conference Choice Storyboard

2:35pm-3:35pm

Hearing the Voices of People Living with Frailty and their Caregivers

The Realities and Practicalities of Engaging Older Adults Living with Frailty and/or Their Family Caregivers in Research

Chair: Joyce Resin, MSW, Canadian Frailty Network

Speakers:

• Barb MacLean– CFN Citizen Engagement Committee Member/Executive Director Caregivers of British Columbia

• Chelsia Gillis, PhD (c), CFN Citizen Engagement Committee Member/University of Calgary

• Sarah (Gibbens) Dolsen, RN, MN, GNC(C), PhD(c), Regional Geriatric Programs of Ontario

• Kelly Kay, PhD (c)., CFN Citizen Engagement Committee Member/Seniors Care Network

• Marlyn Gill, MSW, Patient and Community Engagement Research (PaCER), University of Calgary

• Olive Bryanton, PhD

 

4:00pm-6pm

Networking Reception

All delegates are welcome to stay and connect with each other panelists and presenters. Light food and beverage will be served.

Day 2: September 27

8:30am

Welcome

8:40am-9:00am

Keynote

Kenneth Rockwood , MD, FRCPC, FRCP– Professor, Geriatric Medicine and Neurology, Dalhousie University

Frailty at the front door: Assess or screen or in between?

Objectives of this presentation are:

• To consider the differences between screening and assessment in relation to what clinicians need to know when (older) patients are acutely ill.
• To distinguish between risk stratification and care planning in the evaluation of frailty in people who are acutely ill.
• To discuss the role of clinical judgment (which is variable) from standardized testing (which purports not to be) in the evaluation of people who are frail and acutely ill.

9:00am-10:00am

Assessing Frailty Here, There, and Everywhere

Presenters will discuss the challenges and opportunities for identification of frailty in the home and within healthcare settings.

Chair:  John Muscedere, MD, FRCPC, Scientific Director & CEO, Canadian Frailty Network

Speakers:

•  Joseph Emmanuel Amuah, MSc, PhD – Senior Researcher, Health System Performance Branch, Canadian Institute for Health Information
  • Defining frailty in acute care using administrative data: A Pan-Canadian frailty measure

•  Darryl Rolfson, MD, FRCPC – Professor, Department of Medicine and Hartley Perlmutter, University of Alberta
  • Implementation of the Edmonton Frail Scale in Home Care

• Olivier Beauchet, MD, PhD – Professor of Geriatrics, McGill University
  • Emergency Room Evaluation and Recommendations (ER2)

• Kashtin Fitzsimons– Manager, Quality Improvement, Amica Senior Lifestyles
  • Applying Frailty Measurement and Interventions in Seniors Housing Operations

10am-10:50am

What’s Happening at CFN?

• Frailty Outcomes Consensus (FOCUS) Project
  •  Jeanette Prorok, PhD- Canadian Frailty Network

• Nutrition and Physical Activity Clinical Practice Guidelines for Older Adults Living with Frailty
  • Jayna Holroyd-Leduc, BSc, MD, FRCPC- Canadian Frailty Network/University of Calgary

• Frailty Biomarkers – A Path to Precision Medicine
  • Parminder Raina, BSc, PhD- McMaster University Institute for Research on Aging

• Aging Veterans: Past, Present and Future
  •  Mary Beth MacLean, Veterans Affairs Canada Research Directorate
  • This presentation will explore the history of programs for aging Veterans and the potential of data sources on Veteran health and functioning to examine the care needs of Veterans.

10:50-11:10am

BREAK

11:10am-12:40pm

Connection is a Choice

This interactive session introduces delegates to general principles in how to craft short, clear, conversational statements, intelligible to non-scientists, about what you do and why it matters.

The session consists of an interactive presentation and discussion on interpreting technical material using examples and analogies to illuminate unfamiliar concepts to your audience. The plenary will address problems and solutions in public interactions as well as peer-to-peer communication.

Presenter: James Rea, Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science

12:40pm-1:40pm

Lunch

• CFN 2019 Trainee Poster Winners Announced

1:40pm-2:10pm

2018 Trainee Poster Winner Presentations

Elaine Moody, RN, MSc, PhD, Dalhousie University–Exploring the Needs and Associated Out-of-Pocket Expenses of Older People Living with Frailty who Wish to Age-in-Place

Abe Hafid, MPH, McMaster University–Advance care planning: building capacity in interprofessional primary care teams

2:10pm-3:10pm

Prioritizing Medication Optimization: CFN Funded Research Presentations

•  Shanna Trenaman, Dalhousie University
  • A Collaborative Intervention for Streamlining Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing within Integrated Health-Care Teams

• Colleen Maxwell, BSc, MA, PhD-University of Waterloo
  • Role of community pharmacists in assessing frailty to improve medication use and patient outcomes

•  Xiaowei Song, PhD, MSCS- Fraser Health Authority
  • Improving medication use in residential care: insights of frailty and brain vital signs