Unlocking Insights: Journey into Senior Mental Health with Experts! Join us for an engaging webinar featuring Dr. David Conn, Dr. Andrea laboni, and Dr. Jennifer Watt from the Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health. Explore their latest endeavours in senior mental health advocacy and research in this 60-minute session, followed by a dynamic 30-minute Q&A.
Can't make it live? No worries! The session will be recorded and shared with registered attendees.
Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2024 Time: 8:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) [click to convert to your local time]Location: Zoom - The link will be in the confirmation email
Over the last two years, the Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health (CCSMH) focused its attention on developing three new national clinical guidelines: 1) the assessment and treatment of anxiety in older adults; 2) the assessment and management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia, and; 3) social isolation and loneliness in older adults. This webinar, featuring the guidelines’ clinical leads, will provide an overview of the processes for developing the guidelines as well as highlights of some of the key recommendations. CCSMH is a national non-profit organization affiliated with the Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry. Funding for the development of these guidelines was provided by the Public Health Agency of Canada (anxiety and BPSD) and an anonymous foundation (social isolation and loneliness).
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Bio
Dr. David Conn
M.B., B.Ch., BAO, FRCPC
Baycrest Academy for Research & Education
Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Dr. Conn is the vice-president of Education and inaugural director of the Centre for Education and Knowledge Exchange in Aging at Baycrest, and a professor in the department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is the founding co-chair of the Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health. Dr. Conn is executive co-sponsor of The Ontario CLRI. Dr. Conn led the development of the first Canadian Clinical Guidelines on Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults released in February 2024.
Dr. Andrea laboni
MD, DPhil, FRCPC
Geriatric Psychiatrist and Medical Lead, Seniors Mental Health, University Health Network
Senior Scientist, KITE, Toronto Rehab Research Institute
Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Dr. Andrea Iaboni is a geriatric psychiatrist and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She is also a Senior Scientist at the KITE research institute, Toronto Rehab, University Health Network. She is the medical lead for the Seniors Mental Health division and for the Specialized Dementia unit at UHN. She co-led the development of the Canadian guidelines for the assessment and treatment of anxiety in older adults released in January 2024.
Dr. Jennifer Watt
MD, PhD, FRCPC
Geriatrician, St. Michael's Hospital and Providence Healthcare, Toronto, Ontario
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
Scientist, Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute
Adjunct Scientist, ICES
Dr. Jennifer Watt is a geriatrician and clinician-scientist at St. Michael's Hospital and Providence Healthcare in Toronto and an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. She completed medical school at the University of Ottawa, residency in internal medicine at Western University, and residency in geriatric medicine and PhD in clinical epidemiology and healthcare research at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on improving the care of older adults with geriatric syndromes. Dr. Watt co-led the development of the Canadian Clinical Practice Guidelines for Assessing and Managing Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia released in March 2024.
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