Provincial Common Orientation: Tier 2

Sleep Sleep is important in maintaining overall health and well-being as individuals age. Quality sleep becomes even more critical as we get older, due to changes in sleep patterns and increased susceptibility to sleep disturbances. Sleep plays a vital role in various aspects of healthy aging, including cognitive function, memory consolidation, immune system regulation, and […]

Don’t forget to check the “Resources” tab for this week’s patient example. We will be discussing this in this week’s facilitated session Nutrition Older adults have high rates of nutrition risk,  with approximately 34% of community dwelling individuals aged 65 and above being at risk of malnutrition. Malnutrition is characterized by a lack of intake

Learning Outcomes By the end of this module, and following participation in the facilitated session, participants will be able to: In their excellent sfCare Module on Polypharmacy, the Regional Geriatric Program of Toronto note that approximately 40% of older adults take five to nine medications, and 18% of older adults take 10 or more medications.

Learning Objectives By the end of the next two modules, and following participation in the facilitated session, for each geriatric syndrome participants will be able to: Pain Pain can be experienced and expressed differently by each person. Chronic pain in older adults has been term a “silent epidemic” (click for reference). Some people are able

Learning Objectives (Modules 16 & 17) By the end of this three-part module covering mobility and falls, and nutrition, and following participation in the facilitated session, participants will be able to: Don’t forget to check the “Resources” tab for this week’s patient examples! We will be discussing these in the facilitated session. Mobility The World

Learning Objectives By the end of the next four modules, and following participation in the facilitated session, for each mental health concern participants will be able to: Depression and Older Adults: Considerations Evidence suggests (Fiske, et al., 2009; Sachdev et al., 2015) that, for older adults: Explore current guidelines about depression and older adults from the

Learning Objectives By the end of the next two modules, and following participation in the facilitated session, for each geriatric syndrome participants will be able to: Delirium Did you know the following about Delirium? One way to think of delirium is as “acute brain failure”. This is different than the typically more slowly progressing nature

Dementia and Responsive Behaviours Dementia is a large class of disorders of thinking ability and memory. For example, individuals might experience cognitive symptoms that range from, most often, memory loss but could also experience language difficulties, getting lost, difficulty recognizing people or objects …etc. To be classified as dementia, these problems must be severe enough

Learning Objectives By the end of this module, and following participation in the facilitated session, participants will be able to: Caregivers According to the Ontario Caregiver Organization, 4 million people across Ontario are caregivers and 36% are supporting someone with problems associated with frailty. Thus caregivers are key partners on an older adult’s health care

Learning Objectives By the end of this module, and following participation in the facilitated session, participants will be able to: Social Connectivity Among older adults in Canada, 25% of men and 40% of women say they are lonely (Gilmour & Ramage-Morin, 2020; National Institute on Ageing, 2022). The impact of loneliness has been equated to

Learning Outcomes By the end of this module, and following participation in the facilitated session, participants will be able to: Interprofessional Teams Recall the exercise in Tier 1 (Module 1) when we invited you to think about who is currently on your team and who you might add. Interprofessional teams are key to integrated care