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:
- Welcome, introductions, outline of the day
- Setting the Stage: Importance of Engaging Around Competencies - Suzette Brémault-Phillips, University of Alberta
- The Concept of Competencies - Jeanne Weis, CLPNA; Harrison Applin, Northern Lakes College (insert Competency UAPRES)
- Perspectives and Context: Addictions and Mental Health, Complex Needs and AHS Seniors Health Strategic Clinical Network - Sandy Marcynuk, AHS; Mollie Cole, AHS
- Inter-professional Competencies - Sharla King, HSERC, University of Alberta
- Competencies as They Relate to Legislation, Policy, and Curricula - Jeanne Weis, CLPNA; Harrison Applin, Northern Lakes College
- Competencies Across Sectors, Professions, and Services - Jeanne Weis, CLPNA; Ashley Pike, University of Alberta (insert Competency Tool Validation)
- Focus group discussion - Competency Tools
- 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:
- National Behaviour Supports Systems Update - Dr. Ken LeClair
- National perspective and Alberta Dementia Strategy and Action Plan Steering Committee - Dr. Duncan Robertson
- Age-Well NCE initiatives - Lili Liu
- Provincial Seniors Health Perspectives/Innovations/Initiatives - Sophie Sapergia/Shannon Barnard
- Seniors Health SCNs Update - Mollie Cole/Lynne Mansell
- Covenant Health - NESHW Update - Dr. Jasneet Parmar
- Complex Needs Learning Framework - Doug Vincent/ Sandy Marcynuk
- Spread and Growth of the BSA Network - Suzette Brémault-Phillips
- 2014 BSA Symposium - Building Capacity and Sustainability for Behavioural Supports Alberta
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 Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and New Brunswick.
Report: 2014 BSA Symposium Summary
Description: BSA and the Institute for Continuing Care Education and Research (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:
- Introduction: Woodhead Lyons and Brémault-Phillips
- Update on the Seniors Health Strategic Clinical Network by Duncan Robertson, MB,BS (Hons), FRCPC, Senior Medical Director of the Alberta Health Services Seniors' Health Strategic Clinical Network and Mollie Cole, RN, MN, GNC (C), Manager of Seniors Health Strategic Clinical Network.
- Capacity Building and Sustainability: Strategies for Regulated Staff by Carol Ward, MD, Geriatric Psychiatrist, Tertiary Mental Health Services, Hillside Centre, Kamloops, BC.
- Capacity Building and Sustainability: Strategies for Unregulated Staff by Sharleen Ravnsborg, BHSc, Chair of Health Care Aide, Faculty of Health Studies, NorQuest College.
- Capacity Building and Sustainability: Helping People with Complex Service Needs by Sandy Marcynuk, BA, Program Consultant, Planning & Capacity, Addictions and Mental Health, Alberta Health Services and Clayton Kleparchuk, BA, Supervisor, Community Outreach Assessment and Support Team, Alberta Health Services.
- Capacity Building and Sustainability: Improving Services for Persons with Autism and Their Families by Sandy Hodgetts, PhD, Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta 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 Alberta.
- Capacity Building and Sustainability on a System Level: What's All the Fuss About? 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 Alberta Action Plan
Date: November 21, 2012
Location: Edmonton
Attendees: Over 80 people in-person for each session in the Edmonton Clinic Health Academy.
Reports: 2012 BSA Symposium Summary; 2012 BSA Symposium - Secondary Analysis
Description: Co-lead by the Alberta 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 Alberta, 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:
- Challenging Behaviours Symposium Presentation 1
- Dr. Ken Le Clair: A National Perspective
- Patti Boucher: BETSI Presentation
- Karen Gayman: AHS Cognitive Impairment Strategy
- 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:
- Misericordia Hospital - 4 West
- Excel Society - Balwin Villa
- Capital Care Lynnwood
- Bethany Care Society - Collegeside and Sylvan Lake
- Wing Kei - Greenview
- SCNs - Seniors Health, and Addictions and Mental Health
- Alberta Health Services
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 Alberta's Appropriate Use of Anti-psychotics Projects to develop a process that is attuned to the Alberta context, and useful across the continuum of care in the management of aggressive behaviours in the senior population.
- An Alberta 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 Alberta Symposium 2016
Funder: Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine
Grant: $2333
Authors: Brémault-Phillips, S.
Timeline: Jan. - June 2016Equipping care providers not regulated by legislation or governed by a regulatory body (CPs-NR) to more effectively manage responsive behaviours
Advancing Behavioural Supports Alberta
Funder: Alberta 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
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 Alberta (BSA)
Funder: Alberta 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, 2015Community 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 Alberta: 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
Behavioural Supports Alberta - A Community of Research, Interest and Practice
The Impact of Responsive Behaviours in Alberta's Healthcare: A Mixed Methods Approach - Campus Alberta Neuroscience 2016 International Conference, May 2016
The Beginnings of Behavioural Supports Alberta (BSA): A Provincial Initiative - CAOT 2013 Conference, May 2013
Powerpoint Presentations
Behavioural Supports Alberta (BSA) - Alberta Association on Gerontology, March, 2015
Addressing Responsive Behaviours in the Alberta Context - Canadian Association on Gerontology, October, 2014
- Caregiver support
Publications
Parmar, Jasneet et. al (2015). Discovery Toolkit for Family Caregivers of Senior: Improving Care and Caregiver Outcomes. Retrieved from http://www.caregiversalberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Discovery-Toolkit-Supporting-Family-Caregivers-of-Seniors.pdf.
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 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3986306/
Poster Presentations
Voices of Family Caregivers: A Window into their Lived Experience
Supporting Family Caregivers of Seniors with Complex Needs
Supporting Family Caregivers of Seniors with Complex Needs
Powerpoint Presentations
The Voices of Family Caregivers: Resilience - Covenant Health Research Day, February, 2016
- 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
The Effectiveness of Paper-Based vs. Electronic Documentation - CAOT Conference 2016