This webinar was presented by Dr. George Heckman on February 27, 2018 in partnership with the Ontario Centre for Learning, Research and Innovation in Long-Term Care (CLRI) program at the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging.
Medical advances during the previous decades have allowed persons with chronic disease to live longer. However, this has led to greater numbers of older adults with multiple chronic conditions, compounded by the emergence of concurrent geriatric syndromes such as dementia and frailty. Our health care system was not designed with such persons in mind. What are their needs? How do we change health care to meet these needs, and thus improve their outcomes?
