Posts Tagged ‘Events’
Social Media – what is it good for?
Confused by Twitter, Facebook, Digg, YouTube? Curious but don’t know where to start? Wondering how any of these could be important to your work or your group/association?
Come the the GANS Brown Bag Lunch & Learn on February 12th and Joel Kelly, a digital strategist with Halifax firm Colour will demystify social media and how you how you can use it to share information, spread knowledge and even manage events.
This event is open to the public, so come along and bring a friend! For those outside HRM, this will be uploaded as a video to this site in the near future.
Topic: Demystifying Social Media – how can it benefit you and your group?
Presenter: Joel Kelly, Digital Strategist
Date: February 12, 2010
Time: 12-1pm
Place: Royal Bank Theatre, 1st floor, Halifax Infirmary Building.
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Lunch&Learn with GANS – Emergency preparedness and older adults
On Friday January 22, 2010, GANS will host their first Lunch and Learn session of 2010. 
Topic:Emergency Preparedness: do older adults help or need help in emergencies?
Speaker: John Webb, the Provincial Director of Emergency Social Services.
Time:12:00-1:00pm
Date: Friday January 22, 2010
Place: Royal Bank Theatre, 1st floor, Halifax Infirmary, Summer St, Halifax.
A light lunch will be provided courtesy of the Department of Seniors.
For those of you who cannot attend this session, we will be capturing it on video and hosting it here at CAKEns.com. When it has been uploaded to the site, we will email our members to let you know.
For those who do plan to attend, feel free to bring a friend!
We are planning a continuing series of Lunch and Learns through May of this year, and will be posting the times, dates and topics for this in the very near future.
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Silver Economy Summit, Halifax, May 2010 – call for papers
The Silver Economy Summit will take place this year in Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 13-14. 
Presented by the Nova Scotia Department of Seniors, the Summit “will gather international, national and provincial perspectives on the economic and societal changes that arise from an aging population. Join 350 Summit delegates from a wide variety of social and economic sectors. Make connections, and share opportunities and information that will help your organization further your mandate and interests in today’s and tomorrow’s Silver Economy.”
The Summit is modeled after a series of three events held by the Silver Economy Network of European Regions, the most recent being held in June 2007 in Spain, and is the first Silver Economy Summit to be held outside of the European Union.
The organizers of the Silver Economy Summit invite submissions of papers in three theme areas. (click the link below to read more)
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Conference on Positive Aging in Vancouver, 2010.
The University of British Columbia’s Interprofessional Continuing Education Department (IPCE) has published advance notice of their second annual Conference on Positive Aging, which will be held in Vancouver, BC on November 26-27, 2010. 
“The aim of the 2nd national conference on positive aging is to bring together an interdisciplinary audience of health professionals and researchers to address some of the issues and challenges facing the aging population today. Hear about the most current research findings from leading experts, learn how research can be translated into practice, and discover useable resources to promote healthier, more positive living for Canada’s older adult population. The importance of purpose and meaning of the later life as well as lessons for health and longevity will be emphasized.
The conference will provide informative lectures, discussions, workshops, poster sessions and ample networking opportunities. A highlight of this conference will be to hear from the Older Adults.”
The IPCE has also put out the call for abstracts for this conference. Topics include (but are not limited to)
• Age Friendly Communities
• Aging and Technology
• Aging and the Arts
• Caregivers/Caregiving
• Chronic Disease Management
• Communication
• Cultural and Ethnic Diversity
• Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
• Depression and Mental Health
• Ethical Issues
• Falls and Falls Prevention
• Home and Community Care
• Medication
• Mobility and Assistive Devices
• Nutrition
• Oral Health
• Physical Activity and Exercise
• Rural and Remote Issues
• Spirituality
• Substance Abuse & Mis-Use
• Supportive and Safe Environments
• The Built Environment
Click here for advance notice, and here for abstract submission.
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“Life through the lens of history.”
In Friday’s Chronicle Herald, columnist Gail Lethbridge pays tribute to her 105 year old grandmother – and points out that Nova Scotia has some fairly impressive numbers when it comes to centenarians.
![Gladys Lethbridge, 105. [picture - Gail Lethbridge/Chronicle Herald]](http://www.cakens.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/GladysLethbridge_RGB_11-26-09-254x300.jpg "GladysLethbridge_RGB_11-26-09")
Gladys Lethbridge, 105. [picture - Gail Lethbridge/Chronicle Herald
In considering her grandmother’s life experiences thus far, Lethbridge uses the lens of histroy to give us some perspective:
” When she was 13, women got the right to vote in Nova Scotia. My grandmother was 24 when women were recognized as “persons” in Canada. This means that in the eyes of the law, my grandmother spent almost a quarter of her life as a non-person. The right to vote and being declared legal “persons” paved the way for women to be represented in the Canadian House of Commons and Senate. After finishing school, my grandmother went to the old Provincial Normal College in Truro and then worked as a schoolteacher before marrying my grandfather, Charlie, in 1933 at age 29. During the Dirty ’30s, she was having babies. She was 34 when the Second Word War broke out and 40 when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
You can read the full article here.
From all of us at CAKEns, Happy Birthday Gladys, and many more returns!
Workshops for caregivers, by caregivers.
GANS, Caregivers Nova Scotia, and Dalhousie University have partnered on an exciting new project involving caregiver workshops, called Take Care! The workshops specifically target individuals who give care to older adults who are self-managing a chronic health issue and focus on the caregiver’s role as a coach, emphasizing the importance of self-care.
The workshops are free and there are three different locations in HRM.
Saturday, November 28 Caregivers Nova Scotia office
9:00 am – 12:00 pm Halifax Shopping Centre
Tower I, Suite 105
Tuesday, December 1 Morrison Room, LeBrun Centre
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm 36 Holland Avenue, Bedford
Friday, December 11 Sobeys Community Room
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm 535 Portland Street, Dartmouth
To learn more about these workshops, contact Brenda at Caregivers Nova Scotia at 421-7390 or projects@caregiversns.org
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Renowned expert on emergency preparedness to speak at Dalhousie.
As part of its “Distinguished Leaders in Medicine” series, Dalhousie Medical School has invited Dr. Roz Lasker, an internationally renowned expert on emergency preparedness and community planning to speak.Dr. Lasker will give a public talk on Thursday, November 26 at 4 p.m. in the IWK’s OE Smith Auditorium on ”Untested Assumptions: the Achilles Heel of Emergency Preparedness”. 
Dr. Lasker holds an appointment as clinical professor of public health at Columbia
University’s School of Public Health.For over a decade, she directed the Division of Public Health and the Centre for the Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health at The New York Academy of Medicine where “…she worked with hundreds of people and organizations around the country to study how collaboration strengthens the ability of a group to identify, understand, and solve problems and to develop evidence-based tools that practitioners, evaluators, and funders can use to assess and strengthen collaborative processes. Her research and publications have focused on medicine and public health collaboration, partnership synergy, the public’s role in emergency preparedness, and the voice and influence of historically excluded groups in community participation processes.”
Find a list of speakers in this series, including Dr, Lasker, here.
Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia hosts annual corporate luncheon.
The Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia (ASNS) will host its annual corporate luncheon on December 3. 2009 at the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront. This year’s guest speaker is Micheal Decter.
“Mr. Decter is President and Chief Executive Officer of the investment management firm, LDIC Inc. where his primary focus is value investing in individual companies. He is a Harvard trained economist and author of three financial books, Michael Decter’s Million Dollar Strategy, The DRIP Strategy and his latest, Ten Good Reasons to Invest in Canada.
As a former Deputy Minister of Health for Ontario, Michael is a leading Canadian expert on health systems and has a wealth of experience speaking around the world. He is a highly acclaimed negotiator and facilitator and has represented governments, corporations and hospitals.”
For more information on the Corporate Luncheon please call Beth Jackson, Coordinator, Community Giving for the ASNS at 422-7961 ext 228.
Free Public Lecture – What Should We Expect of Long Term Care for People with Dementia?
This November 25th, Dr. Kenneth Rockwood, a world leader in dementia and frailty research, will give a free public lecture:
“What Should We Expect of Long Term Care for People with Dementia?”
Dr. Rockwood is a professor of medicine (geriatric medicine and neurology) and the Kathryn Allen Weldon Chair in Alzheimer Research at Dalhousie University here in Halifax, as well as the head of the Geriatric Medicine Research Unit. Dr. Rockwood has published six books and more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific publications and is currently co-editor of the 7th edition of the Brocklehurst’s Textbook of Geriatric Medicine & Gerontology. He is the principal investigator of the Canadian Dementia Knowledge Translation Network, a national, multi-centre project that aims to provide better care for people with dementia by working to put research into practice and policy.
On top of that, he’s known to always give a very engaging talk!
Date: November 25, 2009
Place: Heritage Hall, Pier 21, 1055 Marginal Road, Halifax NS
Pre-reception: 6:30pm
Talk: 7:00pm
The lecture is open to the public and all are welcome.
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Intimacy and dementia a topic at upcoming Alzheimer’s Society conference
The Alzheimer’s Society of Nova Scotia will be hosting its 20th annual conference next week, October 19-20th at the Harbourview Holiday Inn In Dartmouth, NS.It will be two days of updates and information on the latest research, adult day programs, challenging behaviours, adults at risk and more. 
One session not to miss is John O’Keefe, senior social worker from Northwood, who will be speaking on intimacy and dementia:
“The need for intimacy and human closeness does not disappear with cognitive decline. The challenges to
have ones’ intimacy needs met within this context are many and varied. From privacy to competency issues, to staff and family attitudes; caregivers are confronted with many challenges to providing an environment which supports
and promotes the appropriate expression of intimacy.”
You can see the full conference program here. There will also be a free public discussion the evening of the 19th of October. Details on this can be found here.
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