Transcript A. To enhance care partner training opportunities

Behavioural Supports Ontario
Lived Experience Network
Advisory
2016 Year in Review
Terms of Reference
• Finalized our terms of reference which outlines the advisory’s
purpose, objectives and logistics (meeting frequency, etc.)
• Among our objectives & deliverables are the following priorities:
– A. To enhance care partner training opportunities across the province
– B. To develop and promote the use of a personhood tool across sectors
– C. To engage individuals with lived experience across the province in advisory
conversations
– D. To inform the work of the Ontario Best Practice Exchange Collaboratives and
ensure that it is guided by person and family-centred care approaches
– E. To identify innovative and promising practices related to geriatric mental health,
dementia, substance use and/or other neurological disorders and share them with
the Ontario Best Practice Exchange Collaboratives
– F. To provide recommendations for the ongoing updating of the BSO Mini-Sites
– G. To act as a resource to provincial projects related to geriatric mental health,
dementia, substance use and/or neurological disorders
C. To engage individuals with lived experience
across the province in advisory conversations
• Conducted an environmental scan of
other groups of individuals with lived
experience in the area of dementia and
geriatric mental health to engage a larger
group of individuals in provincial live
chats
• Strategized marketing strategies for
promotion of the Lived Experience
Network Live Chats
(cont. from previous slide)
• LIVE CHATS on www.dementiacrossroads.ca
– June: Provision of feedback to Health Quality Ontario’s Quality
Standards for Behavioural Symptoms of Dementia
– August: System Navigation
– October: Ontario Dementia Strategy
– December: Meaningful Engagement around the Holidays
D. To inform the work of the Ontario Best Practice Exchange Collaboratives
and ensure that it is guided by person and family-centred care
approaches & E. To identify innovative and promising practices related to
geriatric mental health, dementia, substance use and/or other
neurological disorders and share them with the Ontario Best Practice
Exchange Collaboratives
• Assisted in the decision making process
for which of the Ontario Best Practice
Exchange Collaboratives to accelerate
• Members of the Lived Experience
Network Advisory also sit on the
Collaboratives
F. To provide recommendations for the ongoing
updating of the BSO Mini-Sites
• Provided initial feedback on the overall design and
layout of the BSO websites
G. To act as a resource to provincial projects
related to geriatric mental health, dementia,
substance use and/or neurological disorders
• Canadian Dementia Setting Questionnaire
(Alzheimer Society of Canada)
• Quality Standards for Behavioural Symptoms of Dementia
(Health Quality Ontario)
• Ontario Dementia Strategy (Ontario Ministry of Health
and Long-Term Care
Goals for 2017
A.To enhance care partner training opportunities
across the province
B.To develop and promote the use of a personhood
tool across sectors