Posts by Kevin Tran

Behaviour Supports for Seniors: Opening a digital window to behaviour supports for people with dementia and their caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic The Behaviour Supports for Seniors program (BSSP) for TC-LHIN , housed at Baycrest, is a provincially funded program which recognizes that all behaviour has meaning and that responsive behaviours are often a form of communication of…

Baycrest’s Centre for Education Launches New Health Information Portal Today, Baycrest’s Centre for Education is launching a new Health Information portal in conjunction with the start of National Health Literacy Month. The portal provides resources, links and tools in multiple formats from Baycrest experts and vetted external resources of value. The portal provides easy access to education resources…

Training the Next Generation of Leaders In Brain Health And Aging Besides being a home to world-leading scientists in aging and brain health, Baycrest’s Rotman Research Institute (RRI) is also training the next generation of scientific leaders in this field. With technical, professional and career development, our trainees and alumni are working to defeat dementia…

Baycrest-led virtual education program effective in supporting long-term care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic A Baycrest-led virtual education program helped long-term care workers feel better equipped to address the challenges of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. “Long-term care homes…

The Possibilities Model: How New Approaches to Care & Innovation Support Aging in Place For more than a century, innovation has been at the core of Baycrest’s efforts to respond to the changing needs of older adults. Baycrest has persistently sought new and better ways to provide care and empower older adults, and pave the…

How Innovation is Improving the Aging Experience in Canada In 2015, a historic, visionary and transformative five-year, $124 million investment was made, establishing the Baycrest-led Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI) in Toronto. Seed funding came from the federal and provincial governments at the time. CABHI’s mission was to optimize the cognitive, emotional…

Technology Enablement for Older Adults (TEA) As of 2019, 31.9% of older adults still did not use the Internet – a staggering percentage that would prove even more problematic due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), virtual care jumped from 1.6% of total ambulatory visits in the second quarter of 2019…

Virtual access to specialists improves care for people living with dementia A new virtual pilot program to assess and treat people with challenging behaviours caused by dementia and related cognitive disorders is helping acute care hospitals, long-term care homes and family caregivers better care for people living with dementia and improve their quality of life.…

Baycrest@Home Launches New Self-care Tool for Family Caregivers When her father received a diagnosis of early onset dementia, Sharon did not hesitate to step-in as one of his caregivers. Two years later, she continues to help with everyday tasks like medication reminders, doctor visits and transportation. Yet as a registered nurse, professor, and organizer of…