GERIATRIC SERVICES CONFERENCE

The 15th Annual Geriatric Services Conference

INSPIRING CONNECTIONS

Friday, April 6, 2018Vancouver Convention Centre

GERIATRIC SERVICES CONFERENCE

The 15th Annual Geriatric Services Conference

INSPIRING CONNECTIONSFriday, April 6, 2018Vancouver Convention Centre

7:30 a.m. Registration, Continental Breakfast, Poster Presentations and Displays

8:20 a.m. Welcome

8:30 a.m. Opening Keynote Address

Transforming the Culture of Aged Care: Shifting Paradigms Allan Power, MD, FACP

9:30 a.m. Keynote Address

Solving the Mystery of the Mouse in the Bin Gemma Jones, PhD

10:30 a.m. Refreshment Break, Poster Presentations an Displays

11:00 a.m. Keynote Address

Sleep Matters Glenn Landry, PhD

12:00 p.m. Lunch

12:30 p.m. Poster Presentations and Displays

1:15 p.m. Plenary Address

Can We Be Optimistic? The Global State of Dementia Planning Saskia Sivananthan, PhD

2:00 p.m. Concurrent Workshops - select one of the following:

A1 Dementia Beyond Disease: Enhancing Well-Being Allan Power, MD, FACP

Dr. Power will review problems with overuse of psychotropic medications, the limitations of a narrow biomedical model for dementia and the shift to an “experiential” model.

Agenda

Agenda (cont’d) A2 Visuoperceptual Changes in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease: Ideas for Adapting Care Environments to Help Compensate for Changes and Cue People Gemma Jones, PhD

Various components/features of vision change in predictable ways. Understanding why, how, and in what order these can change helps guide the design of care environments and communication. A3 E-Mental Health for Healthy Aging: Principles, Practices, and Insights Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC A4 The Aesthetic Practitioner: Exploring the Power of Embodied, Intuitive, and Narrative Knowing in Person-Centred Relational Care Gloria Puurveen, PhD

This workshop invites participants to actively engage and explore person-centred and relational care through the lens of an aesthetic approach to care.

3:00 p.m. Refreshment Break

3:15 p.m. Concurrent Workshops - select one of the following:

B1 Utilizing Robotics to Support Loneliness: Ethical Issues Machiel Van der Loos, PhD

B2 Visuoperceptual Changes in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease (Cont’d/Part 2) Gemma Jones, PhD

B3 Sleep Matters for Shift Workers Glenn Landry, PhD

B4 Diagnosis and Management of Early Dementia Leena Jain, MD, FRCP, FACP

4:15 p.m. Plenary Address Inspiring Hope: Global Connections Judy Illes, CM, PhD, FRSC, FCAHS

4:45 p.m. Closing Comments for the Day

7:00 p.m. Evening Keynote Introducing the Alzheimer Cafe Concept Gemma Jones, PhD

Faculty

Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPCProfessor, Department of Emergency MedicineUBC Faculty of MedicineEmergency Specialist, Department of Emergency MedicineVancouver General HospitalVancouver, British Columbia

Judy Illes, CM, PhD, FRSC, FCAHSProfessor of Neurology and Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics;Director, National Core for Neuroethics;University of British ColumbiaFaculty, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (UBC) and Vancouver Coastal Health Research InstituteVancouver, British Columbia

Leena Jain, MD, FRCP, FACPGeriatrician, Fraser Health AuthorityClinical Instructor, Faculty of MedicineUniversity of British ColumbiaVancouver, British Columbia

Gemma Jones, HBSc, BSN, RN, PhDEducator and AuthorFounder of First Alzheimer Café (Farnborough, UK)London, England

Glenn Landry, PhDSleep ConsultantCircadian Rhythms & SleepVancouver, British Columbia

Allan Power, MD, FACPGeriatrician, Author, EducatorSchlegel Chair in Aging and Dementia InnovationSchlegel--U. Waterloo Research Institute for AgingWaterloo, Ontario

Gloria Puurveen, PhDAlzheimer Society of Canada Postdoctoral FellowMichael Smith Foundation for Health Research TraineeCentre for Applied EthicsUniversity of British ColumbiaVancouver, British Columbia

Saskia Sivananthan, PhDWHO Global Dementia TeamProgramme for Neurological Diseases and NeuroscienceEvidence, Research and Action on Mental and Brain Disorders (MER)Department of Mental Health and Substance AbuseWorld Health OrganizationOttawa, Ontario

Machiel Van der Loos, PhD, P.Eng.Associate Professor, and Associate Head, ExternalPatrick Campbell Chair in Mechanical Engineering DesignDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringUniversity of British ColumbiaVancouver, British Columbia

Learning Objectives

The 15th Annual Geriatric Services Conference provides opportunities that support knowledge translation for day-to-day decision-making in the field of older adult care. System issues and culture change processes will be explored and promising directions discussed. Bodies of knowledge – research, best practices and ethics matters are integrated. As a result of attending and participating in this program, attendees will be able to:

1. Discuss types of transformative processes in culture change initiatives.

2. Identify societal shifts that are needed to better accommodate our aging demographic.

3. Describe strategies to promote mental health in older adults.

4. Discuss principles and clinical approaches for care of persons with dementia.

5. Apply knowledge of current and emerging best practices for several areas of geriatric care, such as co-morbidity challenges and support to family caregivers.

6. Identify and discuss approaches to interdisciplinary team collaboration within a person-centred culture of care.

7. Describe the WHO Global Dementia Observatory.

8. Discuss current and emerging methods of knowledge mobilization focusing on older adult health promotion and clinical care.

Learning Objectives for Sessions

Transforming the Culture of Aged Care: Shifting ParadigmsAllan Power, MD, FACP

As a result of attending this session, participants will be able to:• Identify the three basic types of transformative processes in culture change initiatives

and give an example of each.• Explain how relationships can be operationalised in formal care settings.• Describe three societal shifts that are needed to better accommodate our

aging demographic.

Solving the Mystery of the Mouse in the BinGemma Jones, PhD

As a result of attending this session, participants will be able to:• Become familiar with why Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is increasingly referred to as a

visuocognitive illness.• Describe the emerging field of dementia-care, emphasising links between changes in

sensory-perceptual functioning and thinking/cognitive difficulties.• Describe various types of visual phenomena that occur in AD, and how they relate to

the Behavioural Stages of AD.• Describe communication and care interventions resultant from improved understanding.

Sleep MattersGlenn Landry, PhD

As a result of attending this session, participants will be able to:• Discuss good sleep quality as a pillar of healthy aging.• Discuss why poor sleep quality is commonly accepted as a normal course of aging.• Discuss why poor sleep quality is not an inevitable course of aging.

Can We Be Optimistic? The Global State of Dementia PlanningSaskia Sivananthan, PhD

As a result of attending this session, participants will be able to:• Identify some of the global initiatives occurring to raise dementia awareness.• Describe the WHO Global Dementia Observatory.• Decide whether we have reason to be optimistic about the future of dementia.

Concurrent Sessions:

A1 Dementia Beyond Disease: Enhancing Well-BeingAllan Power, MD, FACP

As a result of attending this session, participants will be able to:• Explain the drawbacks of a biomedical view of dementia and contrast with an

experiential model.• Identify 4 of the 7 domains of well-being in the framework described, and give an

example of how each can be enhanced in long-term or community-based care.• Explain the basic concept of the Well-Being approach to Distress.

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Learning Objectives for Sessions (cont’d)

A2 and B2 Visuoperceptual Changes in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease: Ideas forAdaptingCare Environments to Help Compensate for Changes and Cue PeopleGemma Jones, PhD

As a result of attending this session, participants will be able to:• Discuss how age-related visual changes and visual pathology need to be taken in

account when trying to optimise the functioning of people with AD.• Describe the four ranges of ‘visual environment.’• Identify different types of errors that people with AD make as a result of progressive

visuoperceptual difficulties.• Describe examples of environmental adaptations to help people with dementia.

A3 E-Mental Health for Healthy Aging: Principles, Practices, and InsightsKendall Ho, MD, FRCPC

As a result of attending this session, participants will be able to:• Increase awareness of and identify key principles and common practice patterns

in e-Mental health.• Support the adoption and usage of effective e-Mental health approaches for

healthy ageing.• Encourage the collaboration towards innovative approaches for the future.

A4 The Aesthetic Practitioner: Exploring the Power of Embodied, Intuitive, and NarrativeKnowing in Person-Centred Relational CareGloria Puurveen, PhD

As a result of attending this session, participants will be able to:• Discuss the different dimensions of an aesthetic approach to care.• Critically examine your own care practice as it relates to person-centred and

relational care.• Identify specific strategies to promote aesthetic practice in their workplaces.

Concurrent Sessions:

B1 Utilizing Robotics to Support Loneliness: Ethical IssuesMachiel Van der Loos, PhD

As a result of attending this session, participants will be able to:• Discuss that care/social robots do not provide physical assistance or medical assistance,

but rather provide emotional, social and communication engagement with a human through speech, gestures and body language.

• Recognize that care robots have as much effect on caregivers and family members as they do on the person receiving care in terms of emotional issues such as loneliness, guilt and anxiety.

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Learning Objectives for Sessions (cont’d)

B3 Sleep Matters for Shift WorkersGlenn Landry, PhD

As a result of attending this session, participants will be able to:• Describe the known health risks as the result of shift work.• Discuss the role of circadian dysregulation and poor sleep quality that results

from constantly changing sleep/wake rhythms.• Discuss how health risks associated with Shift Work can be reduced.

B4 Diagnosis and Management of Early DementiaLeena Jain, MC, FRCP, FACP

As a result of attending this session, participants will be able to:• Describe the rationale for diagnosis and management of early dementia.• Apply tools for diagnosing and managing early dementia and connection with resources.• Develop a culturally-sensitive approach to the diagnosis and management of early• dementia, focusing on South Asian population.

Inspiring Hope: Global ConnectionsJudy Illes, CM, PhD, FRSC, FCAHS

As a result of attending this session, participants will be able to:• Discuss global brain research initiatives - new connections and trajectories

in ethics and aging research.

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