Seniors’ health: News and podcasts

Exploring how the CIHI Hospital Frailty Risk Measure is used by Canada’s health system partners to understand populations at risk for frailty and support frailty care service planning.

A dementia caregiver’s perspective from Katrina Prescott, who cared for her mother from dementia diagnosis until death.

In this episode of the CHIP, host Alya Niang is joined by a caregiver to discuss her personal experience of looking after a loved one with dementia.

New indicators for 4 priority areas: primary health care; health workforce and surgeries; mental health and substance use; and electronic health information.

In this episode of the CHIP, guest host Jeanie Lacroix speaks with Dr. Marcel Émond, certified emergency physician at the level-1 trauma centre of the CHU de Québec — Hôpital de l’Enfant-Jésus, about the risks of frailty.

On this episode of the CHIP, host Avis Favaro speaks with Dr. Kenneth Rockwood, clinical research professor of frailty and aging at Dalhousie University, about the risks of frailty.

In this episode of the CHIP, we discuss hospital harm and the overwhelming workload of health care workers across Canada.

In this episode of the CHIP, host Alya Niang speaks with McGill University professor Bernard Lapointe and documentary filmmaker Philippe Miquel about the state of palliative care in Canada and why it is such a critical part of health care.

In this episode of the CHIP, host Avis Favaro speaks with Dr. Naheed Dosani about the state of palliative care in Canada and why it is such a critical part of health care.

In this episode of the CHIP, host Avis Favaro speaks with Dr. David Urbach about the causes of surgical backlogs in Canada and what could be done to fix the problems for the long term.