Projects and Publications

Events

  • 2016 BSA Symposium - Competencies in the Management of Responsive Behaviours

    Date: February 18, 2016

    Location: Edmonton and Calgary

    Attendees: 80 people in person at the Edmonton Clinic Health Academy, ~24 people in Calgary at Rockyview General Hospital; 17 videoconference sites and 24 teleconference sites registered.

    Powerpoint presentations:

    • Setting the Stage: Importance of Engaging Around Competencies - Suzette Brémault-Phillips, ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥
    • - Jeanne Weis, CLPNA; Harrison Applin, Northern Lakes College (insert Competency UAPRES)
    • - Sandy Marcynuk, AHS; Mollie Cole, AHS
    • - Sharla King, HSERC, ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥
    • - Jeanne Weis, CLPNA; Harrison Applin, Northern Lakes College
    • - Jeanne Weis, CLPNA; Ashley Pike, ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ (insert Competency Tool Validation)
  • 2015 BSA Symposium - Developments in Behavioural Supports and Dementia Care

    Date: February 18, 2015

    Location: Edmonton

    Attendees: Over 90 people in-person for each session in the Edmonton Clinic Health Academy. We also had 26 teleconference sites and 16 videoconference sites.

    Powerpoint Presentations:

    • - Dr. Ken LeClair
    • - Dr. Duncan Robertson
    • Age-Well NCE initiatives - Lili Liu
    • - Sophie Sapergia/Shannon Barnard
    • - Mollie Cole/Lynne Mansell
    • - Dr. Jasneet Parmar
    • - Doug Vincent/ Sandy Marcynuk
    • - Suzette Brémault-Phillips
  • 2014 BSA Symposium - Building Capacity and Sustainability for Behavioural Supports ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥

    Date: February 20, 2014

    Location: Edmonton

    Attendees: Over 80 people in-person for each session in the Edmonton Clinic Health Academy. Participants joined the session using video or teleconference from across ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and New Brunswick.

    Report:

    Description: BSA and the (ICCER) sponsored a one-day symposium to discuss how to build, support, and sustain capacity in health care providers dealing with challenging or responsive behaviours. Presentations maintained a lifespan perspective, youth through older years. Participants were reminded that "the child with autism today is potentially the senior in long term care in the future". All agreed that a consistent and comprehensive resource for educating, supporting, and sustaining staff is necessary.

    Powerpoint Presentations:

    • Woodhead Lyons and Brémault-Phillips
    • by Duncan Robertson, MB,BS (Hons), FRCPC, Senior Medical Director of the ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Health Services Seniors' Health Strategic Clinical Network and Mollie Cole, RN, MN, GNC (C), Manager of Seniors Health Strategic Clinical Network.
    • by Carol Ward, MD, Geriatric Psychiatrist, Tertiary Mental Health Services, Hillside Centre, Kamloops, BC.
    • by Sharleen Ravnsborg, BHSc, Chair of Health Care Aide, Faculty of Health Studies, NorQuest College.
    • by Sandy Marcynuk, BA, Program Consultant, Planning & Capacity, Addictions and Mental Health, ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Health Services and Clayton Kleparchuk, BA, Supervisor, Community Outreach Assessment and Support Team, ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Health Services.
    • by Sandy Hodgetts, PhD, Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ and Shane Lynch, PhD, Clinical Director of Positive Behaviour Support, Inc. and Director of Infant, Toddler and Preschool Services at the Centre for Autism Services ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥.
    • by Ken Le Clair, MD, Co-Director, Centre for Studies in Aging and Health, Providence Care, and Professor, Geriatric Psychiatry, Kingston, Ontario.
  • 2012 BSA Symposium - Challenging/Responsive Behaviours - Developing An ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Action Plan

    Date: November 21, 2012

    Location: Edmonton

    Attendees: Over 80 people in-person for each session in the Edmonton Clinic Health Academy.

    Reports:

    Description: Co-lead by the ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Challenging Behaviours Interest & Research Group, and ICCER (Institute for Continuing Care Education & Research), the 2012 BSA Symposium aimed at gathering together a network of health care providers, policy- and decision-makers, academics, and researchers to:

    • Identify and discuss issues related to the provision of health care services for individuals across ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥, their families and caregivers, who live and cope with responsive behaviours associated with dementia, mental illness, additions, brain injury, developmental disabilities and other neurological conditions.
    • Develop an action plan (involving clinical practice, education, and research) to address this challenge across the continuum of care - from acute through to continuing care.

     

    Powerpoint Presentations:

    • Dr. Ken Le Clair:
    • Patti Boucher:
    • Karen Gayman:
    • Dr. Duncan Robertson: Presentation

Projects

  • Current

    Managing Responsive Aggressive Behaviours: Implementing and Evaluating a Capacity Building Process in Acute Care, Supportive Living and Long-term Care

    Grant amount: $200,000
    Lead: Suzette Brémault-Phillips
    Co-Leads: Mary Roduta Roberts, Steven Friesen
    Funder: Covenant Health, NESHW Innovation Funds
    Timeline: May 1, 2014 to March 31, 2018

    Project Collaborators:
    1. Misericordia Hospital - 4 West
    2. Excel Society - Balwin Villa
    3. Capital Care Lynnwood
    4. Bethany Care Society - Collegeside and Sylvan Lake
    5. Wing Kei - Greenview
    6. SCNs - Seniors Health, and Addictions and Mental Health
    7. ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Health Services
    Project Phases

    Phase 1: Project set up and organizational ethnography
    Phase 2: Implementation & formative evaluation of the Capacity Building Process
    Phase 3: Evaluation and Knowledge Translation

    Anticipated Outcomes
    • An Integrated Capacity Building Process - Interfacing resources from Behavioural Supports Ontario, with those from ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥'s Appropriate Use of Anti-psychotics Projects to develop a process that is attuned to the ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ context, and useful across the continuum of care in the management of aggressive behaviours in the senior population.
    • An ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ specific inventory of education and training resources (Behavioural Education and Training Support Inventory)
    • A web-based interface designed to support project participants and provide them with strategies, resources, training materials, and opportunities for networking to facilitate their ability to manage responsive aggressive behaviours.
    • Publications in clinically-driven, evidence-based magazines, including newsletters, regarding the development and use of capacity building strategies as part of best practice.
  • Previous

    BSA-Specific

    Behavioural Supports ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Symposium 2016
    Funder: Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine
    Grant: $2333
    Authors: Brémault-Phillips, S.
    Timeline: Jan. - June 2016

    Equipping care providers not regulated by legislation or governed by a regulatory body (CPs-NR) to more effectively manage responsive behaviours
    Funder: ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Government Health Workforce Action Plan (HWAP) Grant
    Grant: $328,437.00
    Lead: Suzette Brémault-Phillips
    Co-Lead: Mary Roduta Roberts
    Timelines: Approved; funding status changed to unfunded due to fiscal constraints of funder in time of economic downturn

    Advancing Behavioural Supports ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥
    Funder: AIHS
    Grant: $3,000
    Authors: Brémault-Phillips, S., Friesen, S., Germani, T., Lee, J.
    Timeline: Jan. 31, 2014-July 31, 2014

    Advancing Behavioural Supports ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ (BSA)
    Funder: ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Innovates Health Solutions
    Sub-grant: $10,000
    Principal Investigator: Brémault-Phillips, S.
    Timeline: 2013

    Challenging Responsive Behaviours Symposium
    Funder: IHRA Planning/Catalyst Grant: $4,000
    Grant: $4,000
    Authors: Brémault-Phillips, S., Sandra Woodhead-Lyons
    Timeline: 2012

    Related Projects:

    A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Electronic versus Paper-based Documentation
    Funder: Community Needs Driven Research Network
    Grant: $10,000
    Authors: Tse-Wing, J., Tam, K., Hanson, J., Mitra, A., Friesen, S., Lee, J., Brémault-Phillips, S., Meriel, A.
    Timeline: June 1, 2014 - Dec. 31, 2015

    Community Re-integration of Forensic Clients with Persistent, Chronic Mental Illnesses: A Retrospective Evaluation of Life Skills Training Programs Provided Through the House Next Door Society Residential Services
    Funder: CRGI Ideas Fund
    Grant: $8,000
    Authors: Taylor, E., Brémault-Phillips, S.
    Timeline: April 1, 2014-December 31, 2014

    Environmental Design that Supports Healthy Aging: Evaluating a New Supportive Living Facility
    Funder: CRGI Ideas Fund
    Grant: $8,000
    Authors:Friesen, S. Brémault-Phillips, S., Trotter, V., Rudrum, L., Wells, G.
    Timeline: 2012-2013

    Mental health education support for healthcare front-line workers in rural continuing care centres
    Funder: ACCTI
    Grant: $11,600
    Authors: Bampton, E., Ravnsborg, S., Wolkowycki, A., Brémault-Phillips, S.
    Timeline: 2012


Publications and Presentations

  • Managing Responsive Behaviours

    Publications

    Brémault-Phillips, S., Germani, T., Sacrey, L.A.R., Friesen, S., & Lee, J. (2015). Managing disruptive behaviours by older adults with mental health, addictions and neurocognitive conditions in ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥: A mixed methods approach. Geriatrics Mental Health Care, 3(2): 21-27. doi: 10.1016/j.gmhc.2015.10.002

    Brémault-Phillips, S., Friesen, S., Moulton, L., Germani, T., Miciak, M., Parmar, J., and Rogers, LG. (2015). Managing responsive behaviours: a wicked problem addressed through a grassroots approach, Healthcare Quarterly 18(2): 31-34.

    Poster Presentations

    - Campus ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Neuroscience 2016 International Conference, May 2016

    - CAOT 2013 Conference, May 2013

    Powerpoint Presentations

  • Caregiver support

    Publications

    Parmar, Jasneet et. al (2015). . Retrieved from .

    Holroyd-Leduc, J. McMillan, J., Jette, N., Brémault-Phillips, S., Duggleby, W., Hanson, H., Parmar, J. (2017, in press). Stakeholder Meeting: Addressing the Gap in Provision of Evidence-informed Caregiver Supports by utilizing an Integrated Knowledge Translation Approach, Canadian Journal on Aging/La Revue canadienne du vieillissement, 36 (1).

    Brémault-Phillips, S., Parmar, J.P., Johnson, M., Tian, V., Mann, A., Huhn, A., Sacrey, LA. (2016). The voices of family caregivers of seniors with chronic conditions: A window into their experience, SpringerPlus 5(1), 1-11. doi: 10.1186/s40064-016- 2244-z.

    Parmar, J., Jette, N., Brémault-Phillips, S., Holroyd-Leduc, J. (2014). Commentary: Caring for Canadian caregivers: essential to the sustainability of the health care system, Canadian Medical Association Journal, 186(7), 487-488. doi:10.1503/cmaj.131831. Retrieved from

    Poster Presentations

    Powerpoint Presentations


  • The Built Environment

    Publications

    Friesen, S., Brémault-Phillips, S., Rudrum, L., and Rogers, L.G. (2016). Environmental design that supports healthy aging: evaluating a new supportive living facility. Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 30 (1): 18-34. doi: 10.1080/02763893.2015.1129380

    Poster Presentations