Alzheimer Dufferin
Alzheimer Peel
Canes Community Care
Ontario Health atHome (Formerly Central West  Home and Community Care - LHIN)
Headwaters Health Care Centre
Indus- Health Services for Seniors (Formerly India Rainbow)
Punjabi Community Health Services
Region of Peel
Regional Municipality of York
SHIP- Senior Housing in Peel
West Park Healthcare Centre
William Osler Health System - Home Page

The brainXchange has been a key partner in BSO since its inception, facilitating knowledge transfer and exchange activities within and between various groups. The brainXchange Resource Centre offers both information specific to the work of BSO as well as over 4,000 other useful resources within 80 searchable topic areas (including 150 archived webinars)! Discussion forums on the brainXchange provide the perfect place to access more than 6,000 network members across Canada as well as many others from the public who access the site to ask questions and share information and resources.

Come visit the brainXchange by clicking our blue hyperlinks (above) or at www.brainxchange.ca to learn more!

Dementia Resources for Primary Care

Mount Sinai - Dementia Resources for Primary Care
This is a website for primary care practitioners to support their work in providing care for older adults with dementia and responsive behaviours and their caregivers. In this website you will find tools, resources and information specifically designed for primary care settings. This program is part of the Ontario Health atHome Behavioural Support for Seniors Program, lead by the Reitman Centre for Alzheimer's Support and Training and by the PRC Program of Toronto, in partnership with the Regional Geriatric Program.

Additional Resources & Tools:

Behavioural Education and Training Supports Inventory (BETSI)
An education/training decision making tool and program inventory

Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health (CCSMH)
The mission of the CCSMH is to promote the mental health of seniors by connecting people, ideas and resources.

This is Not My Mom
Information and resources about delirium

Geriatrics Essentials eLearning
Open access interactive geriatric learning modules are based on the Geriatrics interprofessional interorganizational Collaboration (GiiC) toolkit developed by the RGPs of Ontario. Users take on a senior character and follow their journey through the health system.

Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging (RIA): Formerly Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Program (MAREP)
Workshops and training (designed for staff working in residential care environments such as long-term care homes, and train the trainer programs for educators; products and resources for a wide variety of audiences, such as persons living with dementia, family care partners, and professionals working in the dementia field.

A Guide for Seniors Programs and Services
A Guide to Programs and Services for Seniors in Ontario is your resource for information about programs and services available to Ontario's seniors. It is produced by the Ontario Seniors' Secretariat and distributed by ServiceOntario Publications.

Partnerships in Dementia Care Alliance
The Partnerships in Dementia Care (PiDC) Alliance is focused on enhancing dementia care by changing the culture within long-term and community care to better reflect a relationship-centered, partnership approach to care.

Registered Nursing Association of Ontario (RNAO) – Best Practice Guideline - Caregiving Strategies for Older Adults with Delirium, Dementia and Depression
This guideline has been developed to address the question of how best to care for older adults (65 years or older) with delirium, dementia and/or depression. 

Registered Nursing Association of Ontario (RNAO)  Long-Term Care Best Practices Program free support from long-term care (LTC) experts in implementing evidence-based best practice guidelines (BPG), used by many Ontario LTC homes and hundreds of sites around the world.

Shifting focus: a guide to understanding dementia behaviour
Shifting focus is a tool to help the families and friends of people with dementia understand behaviour caused by the disease.

Vancouver Island Health Authority - Delirium Resources
Information about delirium for families and health care professionals, including tools, flow sheets, learning tools, and professional practice information.

Educational Opportunities:

Advanced Gerontological Education – Gentle Persuasive Approaches (GPA)
The Advanced Gerontological Education is a not-for-profit social enterprise that provides a variety of educational products to complete our mission of "enhancing the care of older adults by learning together."

Dementiability & Montessori Methods
Our Vision is to create an environment where people living with dementia can achieve success and have the opportunity to live each day with meaning and purpose. DementiAbility strives to remove the focus that is too often placed on disability by replacing it with a focus on ability.

Geriatric Certificate Program – McMaster University
The Geriatric Certificate Program aims to improve our aging population’s quality of care through a unique combination of well-developed educational programs.

Putting the P.I.E.C.E.S. Together
The foundation for a common vision, a common language, and common approach to the care of older people in the long-term care sector in the Province of Ontario, Canada has been achieved through the development of a comprehensive, system-wide approach to education.

U-First
U-First! is a leading dementia education and training program in Ontario for healthcare professionals.