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Lee, Linda; Weston, W. Wayne; Hillier, Loretta M. – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2013
Introduction: Primary care is challenged to meet the needs of patients with dementia. A training program was developed to increase capacity for dementia care through the development of Family Health Team (FHT)-based interprofessional memory clinics. The interprofessional training program consisted of a 2-day workshop, 1-day observership, and 2-day…
Descriptors: Memory, Evidence, Teaching Methods, Dementia
Colp, S. Mitchell; Nordstokke, David W. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2014
Published by the Canadian Test Centre (CTC), "Insight" represents a group-administered test of cognitive functioning that has been built entirely upon the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theoretical framework. "Insight" is intended to be administered by educators and screen entire classrooms for students who present learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities, Intelligence Tests, Profiles
Feldman, Maurice; McConnell, David; Aunos, Marjorie – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2012
Parents with cognitive impairments (CI) are overrepresented in child custody cases and their children are at risk for adverse outcomes. Ecological-transactional researchers propose that child outcomes are a function of the interaction of multiple distal, intermediate, and proximal risk and resilience factors. This study tested the fit of, and…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Mental Health, Child Custody, Foreign Countries
Garrett, Douglas D.; Tuokko, Holly; Stajduhar, Kelli I.; Lindsay, Joan; Buehler, Sharon – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2008
Steps involved in formalizing end-of-life care preferences and factors related to these steps are unclear in the literature. Using data from the third wave of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA-3), we examined the relations between demographic and health predictors, on the one hand, and three outcomes, on the other (whether participants…
Descriptors: Death, Foreign Countries, Planning, Gender Differences
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Shapiro, Evelyn; Tate, Robert B. – Canadian Journal on Aging, 1997
Screening interviews and clinical assessments were conducted of Manitobans over age 85: 74 had no cognitive impairments, 94 had impairments with no dementia, and 58 had dementia. Half of those with dementia and one-quarter of those with impairments received home care. Type, cost, and amount of community health services used varied with each…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Community Health Services, Costs, Dementia
Peer reviewed
Meshefedjian, Garbis; McCusker, Jane; Baumgarten, Mona; Bellavance, Francois – Gerontologist, 1998
Assesses variables associated with increased severity of depressive symptoms among 321 informal caregivers of demented subjects living in the community identified by a Canadian national population-based survey. Measures included patient and caregiver demographics variables, patient behavioral disturbance, activities of daily living and cognitive…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Dementia, Demography, Depression (Psychology)
Strain, Laurel A.; Blandford, Audrey A. – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2003
This study examines the caregiving networks of older adults, with particular emphasis on differences according to cognitive status (n = 303). Individuals with cognitive impairment were significantly more likely than those who were cognitively intact to receive assistance with personal care, linking with the outside world, and mobility. The types…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Older Adults, Cognitive Ability, Foreign Countries
Huijbregts, S. C. J.; Seguin, J. R.; Zelazo, P. D.; Parent, S.; Japel, C.; Tremblay, R. E. – Infant and Child Development, 2006
Maternal prenatal smoking, birth weight and sociodemographic factors were investigated in relation to cognitive abilities of 1544 children (aged 3.5 years) participating in the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Children's Development. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) was used to assess verbal ability, the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Family Income, Smoking, Pregnancy
Burton, Catherine; Crossley, Margaret – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2003
The Saskatchewan Mood Inventory (SMI) is a caregiver-focused assessment and research tool that was designed to enhance understanding of the emotional experiences of individuals with dementia and to identify relationships between level of cognitive impairment and family member ratings of pleasant and unpleasant emotional responses during daily…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Dementia, Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns
Fox, Patricia; Solomon, Patricia; Raina, Parminder; Jadad, Alejandro R. – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2004
The purpose of this study was to identify barriers to the management of pain in long-term care institutions. Formal caregivers practising in four long-term care institutions in Hamilton, Ontario participated in eight focus groups. Participants included 6 physicians, 19 registered nurses, 8 registered practical nurses, 13 health care aides and 8…
Descriptors: Patients, Caregivers, Pain, Medical Care Evaluation
Labelle, Fannie; Béliveau, Marie-Julie; Jauvin, Karine; Akzam-Ouellette, Marc-Antoine – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2023
Intellectual impairments in preschoolers have been widely studied. A regularity that emerges is that children's intellectual impairments have an important impact on later adjustments in life. However, few studies have looked at the intellectual profiles of young psychiatric outpatients. This study aimed to describe the intelligence profile of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Referral, Intelligence Quotient, Intellectual Disability
Kozyrskyj, Anita; Black, Charlyn; Chateau, Dan; Steinbach, Carmen – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2005
Hospitalization is a sentinel event that leads to loss of independence for many seniors. This study of long-stay hospitalizations (more than 30 days) in seniors was undertaken to identify risk factors for not going home, to characterize patients with risk factors who did go home and to describe one year outcomes following home discharge. Using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Patients, Risk, Nursing Homes
Gray, Sarah A.; Fettes, Peter; Woltering, Steven; Mawjee, Karizma; Tannock, Rosemary – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
To better understand the nature of impairment resulting from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for students in a post-secondary education (PSE) setting, the authors analyzed the symptoms and associated impairment of 135 students with a diagnosis of ADHD who were recruited via Student Disability Services in Canadian post-secondary…
Descriptors: College Students, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Semi Structured Interviews, Postsecondary Education
Hutchinson, Rachel S.; Eardley, Alison F. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2020
Introduction: Audio description (AD) in museums is crucial for making them accessible for people with visual impairments. Nevertheless, there are limited museum-specific AD guidelines currently available. This research examines current varied international practitioner perspectives on museum AD, focusing on imagery, meaning, emotion and degrees of…
Descriptors: Museums, Accessibility (for Disabled), Audio Equipment, Foreign Countries
Clarke, Philippa; Colantonio, Angela – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2005
Older adults are the largest group of wheelchair users yet there are no peer-reviewed studies on the national profile of older wheelchair users in Canada. We investigated the characteristics of wheelchair users in a national sample of community-dwelling older adults from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA-2). Questions on the use of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Assistive Technology, Risk