neurocognitive disorders including dementia - Alzheimer's

Approximately 80,000 emergency department visits per year are the result of a head injury in an adult over the age of 65. Epidemiological studies have identified increased risk for dementia in head injury patients, however there is scarce neuroimaging evidence to support this direct connection. 

We will review the current brain imaging literature on concussion and mTBI and share new findings and will then discuss some of the research linking head injury to dementia and future directions.

Are you a health care professional or health system planner, or in an agency/hospital leadership role? Do you know about the quality standards related to mental health, opioid prescribing, and opioid use disorder?

Health Quality Ontario wants to hear from you!

We are conducting a brief survey to learn more about who is using the quality standards and how they are being used.

Hello, A colleague has encouraged me to share a short article that I had prepared for our local OASW branch. It was originally prepared for the OASW-Eastern Branch’s Spring 2018 Bulletin, and talks about some of the HQO Standards for the care of adults living with schizophrenia in a community/outpatient setting.

Do you know about the Health Quality Ontario (HQO) quality standards related to opioid prescribing, opioid use disorder, and mental health? HQO wants to hear from you!

Quality standards outline for clinicians and patients what quality care looks like. They focus on conditions or topics where there are large variations across Ontario in how care is delivered. In some cases, there are large gaps between the care patients should receive and the care patients are actually getting—quality standards can help bridge these gaps.

This integrated KTE webinar event is brought to you by brainXchange in partnership with the Alzheimer Society of Canada and the Canadian Consortium of Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA). 

In this webinar a geriatrician and a geriatric psychiatrist will describe dementia-related driving risks, review recent changes to Fitness to Drive reporting policy in Ontario, and discuss how to interpret and deal with these changes in clinical practice.

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This webinar is  the first in a two part series titled “How Do We Apply Culture Change to Caring For People Living With Dementia?” which will  focus on ways Ontario long-term care homes can apply their culture change journey to ensure residents living with dementia thrive.

Apathy is the most common neuropsychiatric symptom of dementia, with a bigger impact on function than memory loss. A new study has found that apathy is present nearly half of all people with dementia, with researchers finding it is often distinct from depression.

Although common, apathy is often ignored as it is less disruptive in settings such as care homes than symptoms like aggression. Defined by a loss of interest and emotions, it is extremely distressing for families and it is linked with more severe dementia and worse clinical symptoms.

A program of therapy and coping strategies for people who care for family members with dementia successfully improves the carers' mental health for at least a six-year follow-up.

Carers who took part in the program were five times less likely to have clinically significant depression than carers who were not offered the therapy. The intervention has also been shown to be cost-effective.

A Montreal man was found guilty of manslaughter and has been sentenced to two years less a day for killing his wife, who was in the late stages of Alzheimer's disease (source). His lawyers portrayed him as an exhausted caregiver. They argued their client's judgment on the day of his wife's death was clouded by a major depression and years of suffering.

High cholesterol, high blood pressure, and diabetes are not only risk factors for cardiovascular disease, but they can also have significant contributions to dementia risk. 

This webinar will discuss the vascular system in the brain and present new research findings that maintaining good cardiovascular health may be an important strategy to delay the onset of dementia or slow its progression.

This integrated KTE webinar event is brought to you by brainXchange in partnership with the Alzheimer Society of Canada and the Canadian Consortium of Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA). The webinar will provide:

This webinar will share findings from an Ottawa-based research study funded by the Alzheimer Society of Canada. The study, which is currently in its last year of funding, looked at the experiences of place, space and neighbourhood of care partners of people with dementia. How do care partners interact with the built, natural, and social environment? How are they supported locally? The findings have implications for both research and practice, and the development of dementia friendly communities in Canada..

The Building Trust project aimed to understand the process of gaining access to dementia-related information, diagnosis, care and psychosocial supports by Punjabi- and Korean-speaking older adults with Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias and their informal caregivers living in the Fraser Health region of British Columbia, Canada. 

This webinar will touch on the importance of recreational programs specifically designed for people living with Young Onset Dementia (YOD) and their care partners. Learn about The Alzheimer Society of Toronto’s Boomers Club, a weekly social program for YOD and their families and explore ways to support the unique needs of this population.