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, 海角社区
    • - Jeanne Weis, CLPNA; Harrison Applin, Northern Lakes College (insert Competency UAPRES)
    • - Sandy Marcynuk, AHS; Mollie Cole, AHS
    • - Sharla King, HSERC, 海角社区
    • - Jeanne Weis, CLPNA; Harrison Applin, Northern Lakes College
    • - Jeanne Weis, CLPNA; Ashley Pike, 海角社区 (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 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:

    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 Alberta 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, Alberta Health Services and Clayton Kleparchuk, BA, Supervisor, Community Outreach Assessment and Support Team, Alberta Health Services.
    • by Sandy Hodgetts, PhD, Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, 海角社区 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.
    • 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:

    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:

    • 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. Alberta 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 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 2016

    Equipping care providers not regulated by legislation or governed by a regulatory body (CPs-NR) to more effectively manage responsive behaviours
    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

    Advancing Behavioural Supports Alberta
    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, 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 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

    - Campus Alberta 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