Welcome!
The Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health (CCSMH) is hard at work ensuring that seniors’ mental health is recognized as a key Canadian health and wellness issue. Working with partners across the country, the CCSMH is busy facilitating initiatives to enhance and promote seniors’ mental health. Below is a listing of what’s new at the CCSMH, but there are always more projects in development. Please bookmark this site and visit us frequently for updates.
What's New
Events | Tools & Resources | Partnerships | Announcements
Events
CCSMH 4th National Conference, September 27 & 28, 2010 in Halifax
Mark your calendars now for the CCSMH 4th National Conference: Connecting Research & Education to Care in Seniors' Mental Health. Visit the CCSMH 2010 National Conference website for full details!
Tools & Resources
We want all older adults - and their family members - to have high-quality information about health issues that might affect them. The CCSMH has produced a series of user-friendly educational guides for older adults and their family members on key mental health topics: mental health issues in long-term care homes, delirium, depression and suicide prevention.
Coming soon!
We are adapting our original guideline on the assessment and treatment of delirium in older adults to address the special needs of older adults in palliative care settings. We hope to have the final adapted guidelines online early in 2010.
There has been so much interest in our Late life Suicide Prevention Toolkit and our depression tools, that we are developing additional resources for health care providers based on the CCSMH guidelines on the assessment and treatment of delirium and mental health issues in long-term care homes. These new clinician tools will be ready by March/April 2010.
The CCSMH is creating a Knowledge Translation Toolkit that include lessons learned from the wide variety of projects the CCSMH has been involved in - disseminating information from the clinical guidelines into user-friendly tools and putting the guidelines into practice. This toolkit will assist health care professionals and administrators to successfully engage in knowledge translation and guideline implementation in their work settings.
Updated January 29, 2010