The ASC/brainXchange Webinar Series

The ASC/brainXchange Webinar Series

In partnership with the Alzheimer Society of Canada and hosted by the brainXchange, this series translates existing and new knowledge from the CCNA into improved care policies, practices, procedures, products, and services by meeting the specific needs of individuals with neurodegenerative diseases and their care partners.

• The target audience includes health care providers (e.g. registered staff and physicians), researchers, policymakers, administrators, educators, and front-line care staff.
• A priority area is to include a person with lived experience (either a person diagnosed with dementia or a care partner) to provide a practical and personalized application of ideas.
• The primary objective of each integrated webinar event is to offer: opportunities to explore the clinical, educational and practice implications of CCNA-related research findings by providing strategies, support, and practical tools to apply knowledge.

In addition, the webinar platform connects everyone – no matter the topic, the individual’s role, or geographic location – with the goal of sharing products and tools, and expanding networks/communities of practice.

A selection of webinars presented by CCNA members:

COMING UP:

• February 21, 2024 – 12:00 – 1:00 PM EST. Interventions for Neuropsychiatric Symptoms with a Focus on Apathy and Agitation, with Dr. Krista L. Lanctôt. Registration required.

RECORDINGS AVAILABLE:

• Sleep and Cognitive Decline: From Mechanisms to Interventions, with Drs. Thanh Dang-Vu &  Andrew Lim. Presented on February 13, 2024.
• Interplay of Mood and Cognition in Late Life, with Dr. Sanjeev Kumar. Presented on January 16, 2024.
• Frailty and Risk of Dementia in Mild Cognitive Impairment Subtypes, with Dr. Kenneth Rockwood. Presented on December 6, 2023.
• Using interRAI data to understand the prevalence of sensory impairments & risk factors for long-term, with Dr. Dawn Guthrie. Presented on November 22, 2023.
• Frontotemporal Dementia Update: Pearls and Pitfalls of Diagnosis and Management Recommendations, with Dr. Elizabeth Finger. Presented on October 4, 2023.
• Social isolation and dementia: practical tools for communities and people living with dementia, with Dr. Carrie McAiney & Dana Zummach. Presented on September 18, 2023.
• The Differential Diagnosis of Dementia, with Drs. Sandra Black & Mario Masellis. Presented on June 21, 2023.
• Lewy Body Disease in Aging and Dementia, with Dr. Richard Camicioli. Presented on May 31, 2023.
• RaDAR rural primary health care memory clinics, with Dr. Debra G. Morgan. Presented on January 31, 2023.
• Evidence-based communication strategies that support person-centered dementia care, with Dr. Marie Savundranayagam. Presented on December 14, 2022.
• Cultural Safety in Cognitive Testing and Dementia Case-Finding for Older First Nations Adults, with Drs Megan O’Connell & Jennifer Walker. Presented on November 22, 2022.
• Forward with Dementia: Enhancing post-diagnostic supports using co-design, with Dr. Carrie McAiney. Presented on November 3, 2022.
• Deprescribing is more than just stopping medications, with Dr. Shanna Trenaman. Presented on October 18, 2022.
• “Life doesn’t stop”: Using the Driving and Dementia Roadmap to Support Driving Cessation, with Drs. Gary Naglie & Mark Rapoport. Presented on September 22, 2022.
• How nurses and pharmacists manage behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in LTC, with Drs. Edeltraut Kröger & Philippe Voyer. Presented on May 31, 2022.
• The Landscape of Dementia Therapeutics, with Dr. Howard Chertkow. Presented May 5, 2022.
• Delivering person-centred isolation care during a pandemic: the Dementia Isolation Toolkit, with Dr. Andrea Iaboni. Presented on April  12, 2022.
• Distinguishing behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) from psychiatric disorders, with Dr. Simon Ducharme. Presented on March 31, 2022.
• Avoidable hospital use by older adults with dementia, how can primary care help?, with Drs. Claire Godard-Sebillotte, Nadia Sourial, & Isabelle Vedel. Presented on February 22, 2022.
• Eradicating stigma of dementia through lived experience, education, and research, with Juanita-Dawne Bacsu (Team 15 Trainee) and a panel of people with lived experience of dementia. Presented on November 16, 2021.
• Hearing and cognitive health: Reducing dementia risk and optimizing functioning and care, with Kathy Pichora-Fuller, Professor Emerita in Psychology at University of Toronto and Adjunct Professor in Gerontology at Simon Fraser University. Presented on October 26, 2021.
• The impact of Lewy body dementia on patients, caregivers, and society, with Dr Philippe Desmarais, geriatrician and Adjunct clinical professor at the Department of medicine, Université de Montréal. Presented on September 8, 2021.
• Healthy Sleep, Healthy Brain, with Andrew Lim, MD FRCPC, presented August 3, 2021
• Exercise for healthy aging, with Teresa Liu-Ambrose PhD, physical therapist and a Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia, Department of Physical Therapy, presented June 15, 2021
• Dementia in people with serious mental illness, with Dr Dallas Seitz, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Community Health Sciences, in the Cumming School of Medicine of the University of Calgary, presented on May 25, 2021
• Early detection of Alzheimer disease – what the new CCCDTD5 guidelines tell us? with Dr Zahinoor Ismail, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Epidemiology at Hotchkiss Brain Institute & O’Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary, presented on May 6, 2021
• Non-cognitive markers of dementia: There is something in the way you walk with Dr Manuel Montero-Odasso, Geriatrician, Professor in the Departments of Medicine, and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Western Ontario and Director of the Gait & Brain Lab at Parkwood Institute, presented March 25, 2021
• Putting the pieces together: why frailty and social context matter when it comes to dementia with Melissa K. Andrew, Geriatrician and Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Dalhousie University, March 9, 2021
• Medical Assistance in Dying: What is it and why is advance consent to MAID not permitted with Judith Wahl, Barrister and Sollicitor at Whal Elder Law, February 2, 2021
• Reducing dementia risk: best evidence and challenges ahead with Laura Middleton, PhD, Associate Professor University of Waterloo & Kenneth Rockwood, MD, FRCPC, FRCP, January 14, 2021
• Non-pharmaceutical interventions to support persons living with dementia and caregivers with Dr Isabelle Vedel, associate professor, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University and Dr Laura Rojas-Rozo, research assistant, Department of Family Medicine,  McGill University, November 26, 2020
• Challenging stigma of dementia with Jennifer Bethell, PhD, epidemiologist and health services researcher and Roger Marple, diagnosed with early onset of dementia, and Laura Middleton, associate professor, Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo and research scientist, Schlegel Research Institute for Aging, November 18, 2020
• Approaching driving cessation in older adults with dementia with Dr Gary Naglie, Professor, Department of Medicine, Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto and Dr Mark Rapoport, Professor, geriatric psychiatry division, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, October 27, 2020
• Social connection in residents of long-term care homes with Jennifer Bethell, PhD, epidemiologist and health services researcher and Katelynn Viau Aelick, MSc., Project Coordinator, Behavioural Supports Ontario Provincial Coordinating Office, October 1st, 2020
• Why do more women than men have Alzheimer’s disease? with Gillian Einstein, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto;  Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Chair in Women’s Brain Health and Aging; Adjunct Scientist, Rotman Research Institute, September 23, 2020
• Nutrition: An ally for brain health and well-being in old age with Guylaine Ferland, professor of nutrition, Université de Montréal and scientist, Research Centre of the Montreal Heart Institute, September 15, 2020
• How can we best help older adults with depression via remote treatment? with Dr Zahra Goodarzi, academic geriatrician, Assistant Professor, Section of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Dr Jayna Holroyd-Leduc, academic geriatrician, Department of Medicine Head, University of Calgary and Dr Jennifer Watt, assistant professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, September 10, 2020
• Ageism’s influence on how older people are viewed and how they view themselves with Alison Chasteen, PhD, Professor and Graduate Chair, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto and Sarah Fraser, PhD, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, July 28, 2020
• COVID-19 Infection in Persons Living with Dementia with Julie Robillard, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology; Scientist, Patient Experience, University of British Columbia, BC Children’s & Women’s Hospitals and Dr Eric E. Smith, Professor of Neurology Katthy Taylor Chair in Vascular Dementia, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, June 30, 2020
• An update on Lewy body spectrum disorders with Dr Mario Masellis, Clinician Scientist and Associate Professor, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto. June 17, 2020
• Music and Alzheimer’s disease: New Insights with Dr Corinne Fischer, Psychiatrist and Director of Geriatric Psychiatry at St. Michael’s Hospital. February 19, 2020
• L’impact positif de la continuité des soins avec un médecin de famille with Dr Isabelle Vedel and Dr Claire Godard of McGill University Family Medicine Department,  February 5, 2020
• Les dernières avancées en recherche sur la maladie d’Alzheimer et les troubles neurologiques with Dr Simon Ducharme, neuropsychiatrist at the Institut et Hôpital neurologiques de Montréal, January 9, 2020
• Génétique de la maladie d’Alzheimer et des autres maladies neurodégénératives with Dr Guy Rouleau, neurologist and Director, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, November 6, 2019
• Cannabis and dementia: Weeding out the evidence with Dr Krista L. Lanctôt, Senior Neuroscientist in Geriatric Psychiatry and in the Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program at Sunnybrook Research Institute, November 6, 2019
• Understanding the Vascular Contributions to Dementia with Dr Cheryl Wellington, Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia, June 20, 2019

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