Resource Webinar 5

Enhancing Community Capacity and Transforming Home Care and Community Seniors’ Services

Goals of the Webinar

To learn about the best care practices in seniors’ care from other countries in the world, including features of their programs, funding priorities and innovative service delivery methods.
To learn about Denmark’s method of delivery of seniors’ care using combined integrated housing and home care services model.
To discuss priority steps needed to transform the seniors’ care system in Alberta.
To learn about Alberta Health’s strategy in enhancing and transforming community/home care services and new delivery methods such as self-directed care, and new ways of contracting home care.
To provide opportunities for participants to express their views and priorities on the role of community services in the transformation of seniors’ services.

Speakers and Speaker Slides

Rosalie Wyonch, Senior Policy Analyst, C.D. Howe Institute, “International Policy Insights: Continuing Care in Canada”

Mads Biering La Cour, Director for Elderly and Dementia, Danish Health Authority. “Denmark’s Seniors’ Care System and the Role Played by the Home Care Program.”

Dr. Samir Sinha, Director of Health Policy Research at Toronto Metropolitan University’s National Institute of Ageing, Director of Geriatrics, Sinai Health System and the University Health Network, “Enabling a Promising Future for Continuing Care in Alberta.”

Corinne Schalm, Assistant Deputy Minister, Continuing Care, Alberta Health, “Alberta’s Strategy in Integrating Continuing Care Services and Enhancing Home Care Capacity and Innovation.”