October 1 marks National Seniors Day and the International Day of Older Persons, setting the tone for this month’s issue of Focus, “Healthy Aging in French.”
But first, in the interview below Jacqueline Higgins, director of Newfoundland and Labrador Francophone Health Network, shares with us how she uses the eQUITY Link platform to help her with three different projects. The eQUITY Link platform is a unique platform offering support for establishing health services in French in organizations providing health, social and/or community services. Funded by Health Canada, it was designed by the Réseau franco-santé du Sud de l’Ontario as part of the Support for health-service managers project. Jacqueline provides three concrete examples how the eQUITY Link can be customized for projects of all types.
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Creating bilingual neighbourhoods in the Beach Grove and Maplewood long-term care homes
The “Creating bilingual neighbourhoods in the Beach Grove and Maplewood long-term care homes” project, launched in 2018, has made great strides and was featured on the front page of PEI’s French-language newspaper La Voix acadienne on July 28, 2021. The Maplewood home is the third facility, after the Summerset in Summerside and the Beachgrove in Charlottetown, to create a Francophone neighbourhood. “We have taken advantage of the experience of two other homes for our project here in Maplewood... We have been working on this concept for three or four years now. It is not something that happens overnight,” says Maplewood administrator Darlene Oakes.
Click here to read the article by Jacinthe Laforest in La Voix acadienne (in French)
Briser l’isolement social des personnes aînées, c’est possible [we can overcome the social isolation of seniors]
The Yukon Francophone Health Network (Partenariat communauté en santé) has published the magazine Briser l’isolement social des personnes aînées, c’est possible [we can overcome the social isolation of seniors]. It gives advice for coping with the stress of the new normal imposed by the pandemic and lists the signs to watch for to help seniors stay healthy. The magazine also gives tips to help seniors stay engaged, and suggests small things that seniors can do every day and programs they can enroll in for maintaining a sense of community! A section on local resources for services for Francophones in the Yukon is also included.
Browse through the magazine here (in French)
Research on Caregivers of seniors living at home
GReFoPS (Groupe de recherche sur la formation et les pratiques en santé et service social en contexte francophone minoritaire) is seeking individuals who were caregivers for seniors living at home as part of a research project entitled: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on family andfriend caregivers of seniors living at home and on the caregiver-care receiver relationship
The researchers, Jacinthe Savard, Sébastien Savard and Annie Robitaille from the University of Ottawa, Suzanne Dupuis Blanchard from the Université de Moncton and Danielle de Moissac from the Université de St Boniface will be covering the provinces of Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick.
The SSF is proud to be associated with this major research project and will distribute it to partners in those provinces.
Participate in the research or forward the link to potential partners: Information and participation questionnaire
The CNFS hub on active offer, “Carrefour de l’offre active”, has a whole new look!
On September 20, the CNFS, the national health education consortium, launched its brand new active offer hub, the Carrefour de l’offre active: Resources, tools and information on active offer concepts are shared on this website, a modernized and updated version of the active offer toolbox launched in 2013. The Carrefour de l’offre active reflects changing active offer practices, the diversity of Francophone communities and the latest research on the topic. The site has a section for English-speaking partners.
Check out the Carrefour de l'offre active here
Access to psychological services in Canadian workplaces
The Mental Health Commission of Canada and the Canadian Psychological Association, in partnership with Saint Mary’s University, is conducting research to better understand how Canadian organizations access and provide mental health services.
This short (10-15 minute) online survey will be used to better understand the employee experience in accessing psychological services as well as employers’ strategic decisions regarding coverage of those services in Canadian workplaces.
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Coming: October 6, 2021, 12:00 – 1:00 P.M. (EDT)
Title: eQUITY Link – Providing tools and support for the implementation of French language health services
Presenter: JoAnne Chalifour, consultant; Jacqueline Higgins, Director of the Réseau Santé en français de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; and, Geneviève Laferrière, project coordinator at the Réseau franco-santé du Sud de l’Ontario
Webinar in English: eQUITY Link is a unique platform that provides support for the implementation of French language services within health, social and/or community service organizations. This webinar will feature an interactive demonstration of the platform and its resources. A case study based on Newfoundland and Labrador’s experience within an initiative aimed at expanding access to French language mental health services will support knowledge exchange and share practical learning related to the use of eQUITY Link’s strategies and tools.
Registration
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Coming: October 13, 2021, 1:00 – 2:00 P.M. (EDT)
Title: The Francophone Newcomer Experience
Host: Antoine Désilets, SSF
Panelists:
Benjamin Stoll, RésoSanté Colombie-Britannique;
Juan Manuel Toro Lara, Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunwick; Luketa M’Pindou, Alliance Jeunesse-Famille de l’Alberta Society
This bilingual webinar, presented in collaboration with the National Newcomer Navigation Network (N4) is an opportunity to learn about francophone newcomers experience in Canada. The panel discussion will review the opportunities and difficulties faced by francophone newcomers and will cover the following:
- What difficulties and barriers have been seen for francophone newcomers moving to Canada?
- What efforts have our systems made to integrate francophone newcomers to their new home?
- What can N4 members do to help francophone newcomers thrive in Canada?
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Coming: October 20, 2021, 1:00 – 2:15 P.M. (EDT)
Title: Comment collaborer avec les municipalités
Presentation by: Florence Morestin, Scientific Advisor, National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy, and Denis Guérin, Head of Knowledge Translation and the Support Team, Espace MUNI
Municipalities have a number of tools at their disposal for acting on health protection and promotion, which makes them natural allies of the public health sector. Over the last year and a half, the public health sector and municipalities have needed to work together to deal with the COVID 19 pandemic at the local level and help us find our way out of the crisis. But how can we make alliances with the municipal sector a reality?
This webinar presents the practicalities to take into consideration for establishing co-operation between public health entities and municipalities. It is aimed at professionals and leaders of public health organizations, as well as research teams interested in launching co-operation with municipalities.
This webinar is offered in close co-operation with the NCCHPP (National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy), Espace MUNI, REFIPS (international Francophone network for the promotion of health) and the Société Santé en français.
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On-line
Discover inclusive writing (in French)
Presenter: Antonin Rossier-Bisaillon, inclusive writing trainer
L’écriture inclusive permet de rédiger des textes qui représentent les personnes de façon équitable. Dans ce webinaire, vous découvrirez les principes de cette approche rédactionnelle et les ressources disponibles pour commencer à les mettre en pratique dans votre quotidien. Vous aurez un aperçu de la gamme de stratégies possibles pour écrire de façon inclusive, qui comprend la formulation neutre, l’utilisation de procédés syntaxiques appropriés, ainsi que le recours aux formes féminines recommandées des appellations de personnes. À la fin de la séance, vous disposerez d’outils pour entamer une transition vers l’écriture inclusive.
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Bien-vieillir : faire mûrir nos ambitions. Comparaisons internationales sur la prévention de la perte d’autonomie.
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Pratiques novatrices en santé mentale pour les communautés francophones en situation minoritaire à Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador (T.-N.-L.) et dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest (T.N.-O.).
Read the report
Mémoire soumis dans le cadre de la consultation gouvernementale en vue du développement d’un Plan d’action gouvernemental pour contrer la maltraitance envers les personnes aînées 2022-2027
Read the report
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As part of the joint standing working committee on knowledge mobilization, the SSF and the CNFS introduce a researcher and his/her research activities. Profile!
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Suzanne Dupuis‑Blanchard is a full professor at the Université de Moncton School of Nursing, CNFS-Université de Moncton Research Chair in Population Aging, and Director of the Centre d’études du vieillissement (centre for research on aging). She has been a nurse for 30 years; her research program focuses on the aspects of home care, particularly as concerns seniors living in official language minority communities (OLMCs).
Biography and Publications
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Publications on “Elderly persons” on the Savoir-santé en français portal
List of publications on the Savoir-santé en français portal on the theme of “Elderly persons”
You can view the theme here
Global report on ageism - Executive Summary
The Global report on ageism outlines a framework for action to reduce ageism including specific recommendations for different actors (e.g. government, UN agencies, civil society organizations, private sector). It brings together the best available evidence on the nature and magnitude of ageism, its determinants and its impact. It outlines what strategies work to prevent and counter ageism, identifies gaps and proposes future lines of research to improve our understanding of ageism.
Read the report
Campaigns and courses on health promotion for seniors – Implementation assistance for seniors’ health promotion stakeholders
Additional and continuing training in health promotion for adults is rarely geared specifically to seniors. The recommendations and tools in this document fill this gap.
You can view the document here (in French)
New online modules based on Toolkit for E-Mental Health Implementation
These free, self-directed e-modules were created in collaboration by the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). They are designed to give mental health providers, managers, and leaders the knowledge and skills to integrate e-mental health into daily practice and support effective, person-centred e-mental health projects.
Sign up now (MHCC’s site with login)
Training course on patient-oriented research
The Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit (MSSU) will be offering a virtual training course in French on the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) foundations of patient-oriented research over two half-days: Thursday, November 25 and Friday, November 26, 2021, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (ADT). This highly interactive training course is designed to build mutually beneficial relationships for conducting patient-oriented research by ensuring that all stakeholders—patients, researchers, health care providers and health system decision-makers—have a common foundational understanding of patient-oriented research, the research enterprise and team dynamics.
Information (In French)
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Newsletter for people who work with our little ones! (in French)
September 2021 issue
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The 16 French-language Health Networks of Canada
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