Webinar Discussion Series: Community Dementia Care and Support

Healthcare Excellence Canada provided an overview of the Community Dementia Care and Support webinar discussion series, and participants discussed Ontario Health’s Quality Standards and associated resources designed to help improve care for people living with dementia and care partners in the community.

• Primary Health Care Integrated Geriatric Services Initiative (PHC IGSI): Connecting People and Community for Living Well is an innovation that has worked in Alberta to support people living with dementia and care partners in the community.

• CO-desiGning demeNtia dIagnosis ANd post-diagnostic CarE (COGNISANCE) is an international research project that will create toolkits and campaigns to improve the dementia diagnostic process and post-diagnostic support.

• MINT Memory Clinics are primary care-based multispecialty, interprofessional teams, improving diagnosis of dementia, treatment and navigational supports for people living with dementia and care partners accessed from one place in the community, typically their family doctor's office.

• eConsult is a secure web-based tool providing physicians and nurse practitioners with timely access to specialist advice for all patients, often eliminating the need for an in-person specialist visit.

• NaviCare/SoinsNavi is a research-based navigation centre improving navigation of post diagnostic care and support in the community for children and youth with complex care needs and their families in New Brunswick.

• The Neil and Susan Manning Cognitive Health Initiative seeks to develop state-of-the-art digital tools for family physicians to assist with early diagnosis of dementia, integrate research evidence into patient care and follow dementia patients throughout Vancouver Island in a single, real-time Dementia Guidance System database.

Rural Primary Health Care Memory Clinics (RaDAR) – one-day rural memory clinics operated by a primary care-based interprofessional team – are improving diagnosis, treatment and navigational supports for people living with dementia and care partners in rural Saskatchewan.

Rural and Remote Memory Clinic 2.0 (RRMC2.0) includes a suite of interventions delivered virtually by primary care-based interprofessional teams to improve early diagnosis of dementia and timely access to post-diagnostic support in rural and urban communities in Saskatchewan.

• Winterlight Labs is a new tablet-based technology that has the potential to support early diagnosis of dementia in primary care through assessing cognitive health, including memory, thinking and reasoning.

• DataDay, an app that provides post-diagnostic support for people with mild cognitive impairment or dementia, enables them to live safely at home and prevent unnecessary hospital visits.

• A new residence created for people living with Alzheimer’s disease in Quebec City combines accommodation and home care, integrating the principles of other villages, farms and a GreenHouse project in the U.S. for those with Alzheimer’s.

• By Us For Us Guides is a series of resources created by people living with dementia and partners in care, designed to enhance well-being, manage daily life and support competent and compassionate care after diagnosis.

PC DATA (Primary Care Dementia Assessment & Treatment Algorithm) is a web-based set of clinical tools and algorithms designed to help family physicians and primary health care providers better understand and apply best practices in dementia care.

• Trualta is a personalized, skills-based training platform for family members caring for aging loved ones living at home.

• Hospitals without walls explores a new use of remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology to assist frail seniors living with or without dementia in Prince Edward Island to age at home longer.

Dementia Connections is a community volunteer program in Alberta that connects champions who have lived experience with other people living with dementia and care partners, and provides resources.

The Primary Healthcare Dementia Toolkit Pilot Project was developed and evaluated to enhance the comprehensiveness of dementia care in primary healthcare settings in Nova Scotia.

Learn about the experiences from the implementation and evaluation of the Québec Alzheimer plan. Our speakers shared knowledge translation tools they have developed to facilitate sharing of experience and lessons learned.

Shelly and Alison shared an overview of how their pediatric patient navigation model could be used to improve access to post diagnostic support for people living with dementia, their care partners and care team in New Brunswick, and other jurisdictions.

Read more about Patient Navigation for People with Dementia, their Caregivers, and the Care Team