Speakers
- Dr. Samir Sinha
- Dr. Henk Nies
- Mimi Lowi-Youn
- David Munch
- Valmay Barkey and Catherine Danbrook
- Leslie McDiarmid
Details
Co-hosted by the Health System Performance Research Network (HSPRN)and the Canadian Research Network for Care in the Community (CRNCC).
This half-day symposium examines ongoing challenges and opportunities for integrating community-based supports and primary health care for older persons and caregivers. It asks the question: if integrating care is so promising, why is it so tough to achieve, and how can lessons learned locally and internationally be leveraged to move forward in Ontario?
Background
There is growing international evidence that integrating care for older persons with ongoing, complex health and social needs is where you want to go: not only does greater integration promise better outcomes for older persons and their caregivers, it can make health care systems more cost-effective and sustainable. Yet, integrating initiatives in Ontario and elsewhere have been challenging to start, sustain, scale up and spread.
Resources
- Agenda
- Slides: How Could a Seniors Strategy enable the integration of Care for Older Ontarians. Sinha. 2012.
- Slides: Integrating Care of Older Persons Innovations from the EU. Nies. 2012
- Slides: A Focus on Seniors. Lowi-Young et al. 2012.
- Slides: Aging in Place A Continuum of Care. Munch. 2012.
- Slides: Stay the Course and Keep the Vision. Barkey and Danbrook. 2012.
- Slides: Integrating Care for Older. McDiarmid. 2012.