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A Region Wide Power Mobility Program Shannon Webber and Kristal Laminman. |
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Humor During the Psychological Assessment and
Mindful Care of Older Persons Kevin Kennedy |
Community Based Health Care… A Reality Jean Chennel |
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Development of Elderly Abuse Template Cathy Gfellner-Donald &
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Day Program Enhancement Marlene Chambers and Linda Schrader |
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Collaborative Art Lynda Wolf |
The Importance of Music as an Activity Larry Roulette and Scott Dryburgh |
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Emergency Preparedness – Your Part in the Community Brian Kayes |
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Cheryl Winger |
Iceberg on the Horizon: Mental Health Among Older
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There will also be several educational/industry
“Exhibits and Displays”
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Keynote
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Speaker: Dr.
Keynote Address: Optimizing Mental Health in the Long Term Setting Concurrent Session: Behaviours and Dementias Dr. |
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Speaker: Dr. Barry Campbell, MD, FRCP Keynote Address: Dementia: How Many Types Are There? Concurrent Session: The
Expanding Role of Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors Dr. Barry Campbell is Medical Director of Geriatric
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Speaker: Dr. Joel Sadavoy, MD, FRCP Keynote Address: Challenges of Aging Concurrent Session:
Depression Dr. Joel Sadavoy is President Elect of
the International Psychogeriatric Association. Widely published, his academic
interests have focused on psychotherapeutic treatment of the elderly,
personality disorders in old age and service delivery to ethnocultural
elders. He continues to teach and lecture on these subjects. He is the senior
editor of Comprehensive Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry (three editions) and
has contributed to many textbooks on general and
geriatric psychiatry. In 1999, |
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Speaker: Dr. Norma Wylie, MSN Keynote Address: Life Experiences of an Octogenarian Dr. Norma Wylie, Professor Emerita of Surgery and
Medical Humanities, Southern Illinois University Medical School, was the first
nurse to receive an appointment as full professor with tenure at a |
More detailed information and speaker bios are available on the
Mindful Care website: www.mindfulcare.mb.ca
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Keynote Addresses: Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
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8:30 am Dr. KN2
1:00 pm Dr. Barry Campbell:
Dementia, How Many Types Are There? |
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Thursday Concurrent Sessions: |
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Several sessions scheduled on Thursday will be of
particular interest to physicians and specialists with a percentage of spaces
reserved for the identified target audience |
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Th1 Behaviors and Dementias; Dr. Target Audience: Physicians/Psychiatrists; Psychogeriatric/Mental Health Staff; General Health Care Professionals. Main Theme: This
presentation will focus on behavior problems associated with dementia and
include a look at how the components of dementia lead to certain behaviors. |
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Th2 The Expanding Role of Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors; Dr. Barry Campbell Target Audience: Physicians/Psychiatrists; Psychogeriatric/Mental Health Staff; General Health Care Professionals. Main Theme: This
presentation will focus on the role of Acetylcholinesterase
Inhibitors in cognition. |
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Th3 Delirium – How to Recognize it and What to Do; Dr. Lint and Dr. Bookatz Target Audience: Physicians/Psychiatrists; Psychogeriatric/Mental Health Staff. Main Theme: This presentation will focus on delirium in the elderly, the diagnosis, treatment options and factors which may predispose to delirium. |
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Th4 Stress Inoculation Training (SIT) to
Enhance Coping Skills: Not Just for Nurses; Dr. Target Audience: Psychogeriatric/Mental Health Staff; Front Line/Direct Service Health Care Providers. Main Theme: Explores how SIT could be used to help formal and informal caregivers, healthy elderly, and individuals with cognitive impairment cope with stressful situations. |
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Th5 Resistance to Care: Providing Optimal
Service when Care is Refused; Target Audience: General Health Care Professionals; Front Line Direct Service Staff; Public/Family. Main Theme: Focusing on key factors that contribute to resistive behaviors, this session will provide participants with understanding of how to develop and implement service plans. |
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Th6 The Challenge of Dual Diagnosis:
Alzheimer Disease and Target Audience: Physicians/Psychiatrists; Psychogeriatric/Mental Health Staff; General Health Care Professionals. Main Theme: This session is a brief overview of Alzheimer Disease and Down Syndrome with the primary focus on assessment and care planning. Practical information on assessment tools, resources and guidance for future planning will be provided. |
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Th7 Position Statement on Target Audience: Physicians/Psychiatrists; Psychogeriatric/Mental
Health Staff; General Health Care Professionals. Main Theme: The MMSE was designed to be used as a ‘screening test’ of cognitive function in older adults; however, it is currently used for a much wider range of applications than intended. This presentation will provide guidelines and discussion for the appropriate use of the MMSE. |
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Th8 Family Members and Formal Caregivers - Partners in Care; Heather Karasinski BSW and Kathy Flemington RPN Target Audience: General Health Care Professionals; Front Line/Direct Service Health Care Providers. Main Theme: Many of our seniors request that family caregivers provide assistance and emotional support. This presentation focuses on promoting the building and maintaining of a…. positive relationship… between professional caregivers and family caregivers to ensure optimal care for the client. |
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Th9 Leadership in Times of Change: Turning
It Inside Out; Target Audience: Psychogeriatric/Mental Health Staff; General Health Care Professionals; Front Line Direct Service Staff. Main Theme: This interactive session will assist participants in understanding basic leadership skills, the context which leadership is practiced and the importance of developing individual leadership capacity. |
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Th10 “Family Therapy” Without the Family: A Psychoeducational Support Group for the Adult Child; Suzanne Rutledge MSW RSW Target Audience: Physicians/Psychiatrists; Psychogeriatric/Mental Health Staff; General Health Care Professionals; Front Line/Direct Service Health Care Providers. Main Theme:
This presentation will examine a successful group intervention that assisted
an “Adult child” in coping with an aging parent perceived as having a
“difficult personality.” |
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Th11 Depression and Suicide in the Elderly; Terry Klassen, RPN Target Audience: General Health Care Professionals; Front Line/Direct Service Health Care Providers; Public/Family. Main Theme: This presentation will focus on statistical data surrounding depression and suicide in the elderly as well as the programs currently available to elderly that enhance their well being. |
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Th12 Clinical Case Presentation and Discussion #1; Dr. A Gunson and Dr. Vipulananthan Target Audience: This will be a small group session with spaces reserved for Physicians and Psychogeriatric Program Specialists. Main Theme: Cases will be presented addressing issues of differential diagnosis of Dementia, Delirium, Depression, followed by a peer review and case discussion with the audience. |
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Th13 Clinical Case Presentation and Discussion #2; Dr. Vipulananthan and Dr. Al Gunson Target Audience: This will be a second small group session with spaces reserved for Physicians and Psychogeriatric Program Specialists. Main Theme: This will be a continuation of case presentations from session Th13 with additional cases being presented addressing issues of the differential diagnosis of Dementia, Delirium, Depression. There will be a peer review and case discussion with the audience. The utilization of the Mental Health Act and other resources will also be addressed. |
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Th14 Reflexive Practice: Self as Practitioner;
Target Audience: Psychogeriatric/Mental Health Staff; General Health Care Professionals. Main Theme: Awareness of self, and awareness of how understanding of self informs practice, is a critical feature of mindful care. This presentation explores reflexive practice and the importance of reflexive practice in the exploration of self, creation of practitioner knowledge and optimizing an individual’s care giving potential. |
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Th15 Alcohol Gambling and Substance Misuse - Target Audience: Physicians/Psychiatrists; Psychogeriatric/Mental Health Staff; General Health Care Professionals; Front Line/Direct Service Health Care Providers; Public/Family. Main Theme:
This umbrella presentation will focus on dependency issues in seniors and
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Th16 Psychogeriatric Challenges for Seniors of Ethnocultural Communities; Dr. A. S. Arneja and Dr. M. Singh Target Audience: Psychogeriatric/Mental Health Staff; General Health Care Professionals; Front Line/Direct Service Health Care Providers; Public/Family. Main Theme: This session will focus on the common physical, emotional and mental health problems of both seniors in general as well as marginalized ethno-cultural seniors as well as strategies to overcome these problems. |
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Keynote Addresses: Friday, October 1st, 2004 |
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KN3 8:30 am Dr. Joel Sadavoy: Challenges of Aging KN4
3:45 pm Dr. Norma Wylie: Life
Experiences of an Octogenerian |
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Friday Concurrent Sessions: |
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Several sessions scheduled on Friday will be of particular interest to family or members of the public, as well as a broad range of health care providers and front line staff. |
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Fr17 Managing Depression; Dr. Joel Sadavoy Target Audience: Physicians/Psychiatrists; Psychogeriatric/Mental Health Staff. Main Theme: This presentation will focus on identifying the different types of depression as well as when and how these forms respond to treatments. |
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Fr18 Developing A Community Based Resource for Elder Abuse Response; Lori Jones RN BScN, Jill Hannah-Kayes BSW RSW Target Audience: Physicians/Psychiatrists; General Health Care Professionals; Front Line/Direct Service Health Care Providers; Public/Family. Main
Theme: In response to an incident involving abuse of an
elderly person, the Assiniboine Regional Health
Authority Elder Abuse Task Force was formed. The presentation will
highlight key components of the Resource Guide that the Task Force developed
as well as the evaluation and lessons learned. |
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Fr19 Knowing the Person: Spiritual Assessment of Persons with Dementia; Ina Baas-Penner, Chaplain Riverview Health Centre Target Audience: Psychogeriatric/Mental Health Staff; General Health Care Professionals; Front Line/Direct Service Health Care Providers; Public/Family. Main Theme: This presentation will focus on completing a meaningful spiritual assessment and creating a pastoral care plan which moves beyond addressing the simple identification of the individual's religious affiliation and practices; both are intrinsic to holistic care. |
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Understanding Dysphagia in the Psycho-geriatric
Population; Target Audience: Psychogeriatric/Mental Health Staff; General Health Care Professionals; Front Line/Direct Service Health Care Providers. Main Theme: Recent research into swallowing problems – or dysphagia – will be examined using case studies to examine causes and practical strategies used to manage difficulties of dysphagia in the psychogeriatric population.
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Fr21 The Ethic of Dignity as a Guiding Principle for Health Care Workers; Jo Ann Egilson BSW MSW Target Audience: Physicians/Psychiatrists; General Health Care Professionals; Front Line/Direct Service Health Care Providers. Main Theme: This presentation will focus on the importance of dignity, particularly for those who are in personal care homes. It will focus on ways to promote dignity and why this is necessary for health care providers. |
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Fr22 Working with Challenging Behaviors in Personal Care Homes; Angela Carlson and Barbara GrahamNorth Target Audience: Psychogeriatric/Mental Health Staff; General Health Care Professionals; Front Line/Direct Service Health Care Providers; Public/Family. Main Theme: This session will address several challenging behaviors which often manifest in Personal Care Homes as well as present ways to help problem solve behavioral issues while promoting creativity and respecting dignity. |
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Fr23 Turning Knowledge Into Practice; Kathy Flemington RPN and Heather Karasinski BSW Target Audience: Front Line/Direct Service Health Care Providers. Main Theme: This interactive session is designed to promote and develop the problem solving of long term care staff. This is done by presenting two common scenarios and then working through the scenario in both large and small group format. |
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Psychosocial Approaches to Seniors Mental Health Across Target Audience: Physicians/Psychiatrists; Psychogeriatric/Mental Health Staff; General Health Care Professionals. Main Theme: This session will focus on the results of a project carried out by the BC Psychogeriatric Association which focused on developing the capacity of communities across Canada to use psychosocial approaches to promote seniors well being. |
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Volunteerism and Mental Health of Older Adults in South Western Manitoba;
Barbara Gfellner, Target Audience: Psychogeriatric/Mental Health Staff; General Health Care Professionals; Front Line/Direct Service Health Care Providers. Main Theme: This session will provide an overview of the benefits of volunteerism for mental health and quality of life among older adults by examining three studies which focused on this topic. |
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Fr26 The Impact of an Adult Child Death on the Older Parent; Tony O’Regan, RN, BSc(Hons), MSc, DPSN, Cert Ed. Target Audience: Physicians/Psychiatrists;
Psychogeriatric/ Mental Health Staff; General Health Care Professionals;
Front Line/Direct Service Health Care Providers. Main Theme: This presentation will focus on the epidemiology of adult child death (ACD) and the effects of ACD on elderly parents. It will stimulate debate on how the health care system can prepare and respond to the increasing phenomenon of elderly bereaved parents in the 21st Century. |
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Fr27 Family’s Journey to Recovery; Deanna Kowlchuk, and Krista Pedlow Target Audience: Physicians/Psychiatrists; Psychogeriatric/Mental Health Staff; General Health Care Professionals; Front Line/Direct Service Health Providers; Public/Family. Main Theme: This session will focus on the value of support for families of mental health consumers. It will include a literature review, a look at past and present support initiatives as well as a panel of family members who will share the stories with the audience. |
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Financial Assistance Available for Caring At Home; Target Audience: Psychogeriatric/Mental Health Staff; General Health Care Professionals; Front Line/Direct Service Health Care Providers; Public/Family. Main Theme: This presentation will examine the financial options available to those who are caring for family members, a topic seldom addressed because the focus at such times is often on physical and emotional issues. |
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Bill of Rights for the Dementia Patient; Target Audience: Psychogeriatric/Mental Health Staff; General Health Care Professionals. Main Theme: This presentation will examine the four following topics: the usual patient bill of rights, pertinent objections to this bill of rights for dementia patients, an alternate bill of rights for dementia patients, and one nursing home experience. |
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Informal Care Giving: What are the Rewards?; Target Audience: Psychogeriatric/Mental Health Staff; General Health Care Professionals; Front Line/Direct Service Health Care Providers. Main Theme: Focusing on the benefits of intra-family caregiving, this presentation will present information on optimizing the benefits to the informal caregiver as well as minimizing the stressors involved by focusing on the caregivers’ strengths. |
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Fr31 Enhancing Wellbeing Through Self-Care; Lynda Wolf OT Target Audience: Psychogeriatric/Mental Health Staff; General Health Care Professionals; Front Line/Direct Service Health Care Providers; Public/Family. Main Theme: This presentation will describe a program that is underway at Riverview Health Care Center to promote the continued participation of residents who are diagnosed with severe dementia in selected self-care activities. |
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Fr32 Older Wiser Lifestyles: Older Adults Making Healthy Lifestyle Changes – Debbie Christie BA/BSW Target Audience: Psychiatrists/Physicians; Psychogeriatric /Mental Health Staff; General Health Care Professionals; Front Line/Direct Service Staff. Main Theme: This Presentation will introduce a multi-faceted program offered by Alcohol, Drug and Gambling Services (ADGS) that provides support to older adults wishing to make changes for a healthier lifestyle. It will focus on the principles of the program and why these principles are necessary for facilitating positive change. |
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Fr33 Difficult Decisions Around Do Not Rescusitate Issues; Dr. C. Norman Target Audience: General Health Care Professionals; Front Line/Direct Service Health Providers; Public/Family. Main Theme: This presentation will address some of the factors that need to be considered in making the decision around DNR orders and resuscitation from the perspective of an emergency room physician. |
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Sponsors We would like to thank Pfizer Canada Inc., Eli Lilly Canada Inc., Sabex Canada Inc. and Apotex International Inc. for the generous support committed to Mindful Care II at the time this brochure was printed.
For information on how your organization can sponsor Mindful Care II please contact: Gary Cavanagh, Chair of Fiscal Support Phone: (204) 726 - 2943 |
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Continuing Education Credits
Approval for Continuing Education accreditation is anticipated for several disciplines. If you would like us to contact additional professional organizations for approval, please contact us with the information. |
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Contact Information
For more information on the Mindful Care Conference or the Public Forum please visit: WWW.MINDFULCARE.MB.CA
Or contact Brenda Lunan, Conference Secretary Phone: (204) 571-8304 Fax: 726-8684 E-mail: Mindfulcare@brandonrha.mb.ca Mailing Address: Mindful Care C/o Unit B-13
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