Communities of Practice
The Communities of Practice* listed below are currently active or in development.
Design and Dementia
Approaching holistic design concerns through interdisciplinary/intersectoral discourse and tool development to enhance the social and physical environments | Resources | Contact Knowledge Broker
Health Care Consent and Advance Care Planning
A Core Work Group is working provincially to leverage existing knowledge to develop, promote, implement, and evaluation, consistent lawful and evidence-based approaches to health care consent and advance care planning | Resources | Contact Knowledge Broker
Mental Health, Addictions and Behavioural Issues
A collaboration between AKE, Seniors Health Research Transfer Network (SHRTN) and Ontario Research Coalition of Research Institutes / Centres on Health & Aging (ORC) to bring together people, ideas, and resources to increase awareness of the needs of seniors affected by serious mental illness, addiction, dementia or behavioural issues | Resources | Contact Knowledge Broker
Ontario Dementia Network
The Ontario Dementia Network’s mandate is to provide leadership to the regional dementia networks in Ontario in the development of a comprehensive and well developed system of service delivery, education, and public policy in the field of dementia | Resources| Contact Knowledge Broker
Policy
Providing policy workers with an opportunity to learn about information resources on dementia, policy development in different sectors and jurisdictions, connect with other policy workers, explore topics of mutual interest and have access to researchers and experts in certain fields | Resources | Contact Knowledge Broker
Primary Care
Provide primary care practitioners and the organizations that support them with an opportunity to share their knowledge and experiences | Contact Knowledge Broker
Psychogeriatric Resource Consultants (PRCs)
Providing PRCs with an opportunity to share experiences and knowledge gained, collectively address challenges and learn from success stories | Resources | Contact Knowledge Broker
Self-Management and Dementia
There is increasing effort to use self-management interventions and supports with individuals with chronic health conditions, but these interventions are rarely used with persons living with dementia because of stigma and misconceptions about the ability they have to play an active role in their own care. The Self-Management in Dementia Community of Practice (CoP) brings together people with expertise in using self-management interventions and those with an interest in advancing the use of self-management interventions in the dementia context. Together, they work to determine effective strategies for supporting persons with dementia (and their care partners) to engage in self-management activities so that they can positively impact their own care | Contact Knowledge Broker
If you are interested in any of these topic-specific CoPs, or are interested in developing another topic-specific CoP, please contact the Knowledge Broker.
* A Community of Practice (CoP) is a community or group of people who have made a commitment to be available to each other, offer support to share learning, and to consciously develop new knowledge (Wheatley, 2007). A CoP makes the intentional commitment to advance the field of practice and to share those discoveries with anyone engaged in similar work (Wheatley, 2007)