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Announcing CLIQ's Collaboration on NurseGPT Project to Support Nurses in Long-Term Care

October 24, 2024

Igniting Change with SPARQ!

October 10, 2024

Celebrating One Year of the Dr. Barrie Strafford Centre for Learning, Innovation & Quality!

September 26, 2024

Innovation in Continuing Care Survey

September 25, 2024

BSF Partners with University of Calgary to Bring Community Engaged Learning Program to Wentworth Manor

May 08, 2024

CLIQ Partners with the University of Calgary to Tackle Real-World Solutions through Hackathon

April 05, 2024

CRDL: A Care Instrument that Fosters Connection

January 18, 2024

Enhancing Mental Health Supports in Continuing Care: The Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation’s Discover + Adopt Program

December 07, 2023

Introducing the Dr. Barrie Strafford Centre for Learning, Innovation & Quality

<p>The launch event included a Ribbon Cutting (Left-Right): Clayton Sissons (BSF Board Chair), Roxanne Sissons (Strafford family representative and BSF Board Member), Tony Weeks (BSF President and CEO), Catherine Laing (Executive Director, Dr. Barrie Strafford Centre for Learning, Innovation & Quality), and Dr. Luanne Metz (MLA Calgary-Varsity).</p>

September 26, 2023

The Brenda Strafford Foundation and University of Calgary enhance strategic collaboration through the Brenda Strafford Centre on Aging

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<p>Pictured left to right: Carolyne Mondoux (BSF vice President, Service Excellence, Quality, and Innovation), Tony Weeks (BSF President and CEO), Dr. Jayna Holroyd-Leduc (Academic Lead, Brenda Strafford Centre on Aging), and Dr. Tom Stelfox (Scientific Director, O’Brien Institute for Public Health).</p>

<div class="clear"><span class="columnQuote">“BSF is proud of our successful track record of investment in research and innovation to drive knowledge creation and inform best practices in aging care and seniors’ health and wellness. This new agreement builds upon the strong and long-standing history between BSF and the University of Calgary, honouring the legacy of our founder the late Dr. Barrie Strafford, while positioning BSF and the university for future growth, greater strategic collaboration, and greater impact.”</span><br />
<span class="columnAttrrib">- Tony Weeks, President and CEO of The Brenda Strafford Foundation</span></div>

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<span class="columnQuote">“We support academic scholars to tackle public health challenges, bringing them together with health practitioners, citizens, governments, businesses, and non-governmental organizations when collective action is required. This evolution of the Brenda Strafford Centre on Aging exemplifies the strategic role that university-community partnerships play in advancing public health through research excellence.” </span><br />
<span class="columnAttrrib">- Dr. Tom Stelfox, Scientific Director of the O’Brien Institute for Public Health</span></div>

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August 01, 2023

HealthTech Home Project: Open call for Expressions of Interest

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<p><span class="pqLeft">“Today’s generation of aging seniors have different expectations around remaining in their homes and maintaining their independence as they age. </span><span class="pqLeft">We are committed to leading research and innovation that enhances the quality of life and quality of care for older adults in support of our mission to optimize well-being and enrich people’s lives, creating impact within our seniors’ care communities, and beyond.”</span></p>

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<h3>Tony Weeks,<br />
President and CEO<br />
The Brenda Strafford Foundation</h3>
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November 09, 2022

BSF Project Deploys Consumer Health Monitoring Technology at Home

<p><a class="button" href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220922005027/en/Alberta-Based-Project-Deploys-Consumer-Health-Monitoring-Technology-to-Pilot-an-Innovative-Home-Environment-for-Aging-Populations" target="_blank">Full Release on BusinessWire</a></p>

<p><a class="button" href="https://thebsf.ca/HealthTechHome">HealthTech Home Project</a></p>

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<p><span class="pqLeft">“Today’s generation of aging seniors have different expectations around remaining in their homes and maintaining their independence as they age. </span><span class="pqLeft">We are committed to leading research and innovation that enhances the quality of life and quality of care for older adults in support of our mission to optimize well-being and enrich people’s lives, creating impact within our seniors’ care communities, and beyond.”</span></p>

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<h3>Tony Weeks,<br />
President and CEO<br />
The Brenda Strafford Foundation</h3>
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September 22, 2022

Seniors’ Week Health & Wellness Expo at the Greater Forest Lawn 55+ Society

<h2>Event details:</h2>

<h3>Thursday, June 9, 2022<br />
1:00-3:00 p.m.</h3>

<h3>Greater Forest Lawn 55+ Society<br />
3425 26 Avenue SE<br />
Calgary, AB T2B 2P2 </h3>

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<h2>About the Event Partners</h2>

<h3>The Brenda Strafford Foundation</h3>

<p>The Brenda Strafford Foundation is a registered Canadian charitable organization established in 1975. The Foundation’s core operations are in seniors’ care, owning and operating five continuing care communities in and around Calgary, AB, and with a strategic focus on research and innovation in seniors’ health and wellness. The Foundation also supports local charitable programs to serve women and children who are fleeing domestic violence and families at risk of homelessness and supports international charitable programs serving those in need of health services abroad in regions of the Caribbean.</p>

<p><a class="button" href="http://www.theBSF.ca" target="_blank">www.theBSF.ca</a></p>

<h3>Greater Forest Lawn 55+ Society</h3>

<p>The Greater Forest Lawn 55+ Society (GFL55+) provides a welcoming place for information, programs, and services that enhance the quality of life for older adults and their families.</p>

<p><a class="button" href="http://www.gfls.org" target="_blank">www.gfls.org</a></p>

<h3>Kerby Centre</h3>

<p>The Kerby Centre is a not-for-profit organization with programs and services in Calgary and Medicine Hat. Kerby Centre is committed to enhancing the ability of older adults 55+ to live healthy, productive lives with a focus on their mental, physical, social and emotional well-being.</p>

<p><a class="button" href="http://www.kerbycentre.com" target="_blank">www.kerbycentre.com</a></p>

<h3>The Alex Community Food Centre</h3>

<p>The Alex Community Food Centre (CFC) is a welcoming place for people to come together to grow, cook, share and advocate for good food for all. The CFC provides people with access to high-quality food in a dignified setting through healthy meals and an affordable produce market. People learn cooking and gardening skills, and kids get their hands dirty in the garden and kitchen in ways that expand their tastebuds and help them make healthier food choices. Community members find their voices on the issues that matter to them, and people find friends and support. CFCs offer multifaceted, integrated and responsive programming in a shared space where food builds health, hope, skills and community.</p>

<p><a class="button" href="http://www.thealex.ca" target="_blank">www.thealex.ca</a></p>

June 06, 2022

Helpful Home Virtual Round Table

<h2>About the partners</h2>

<p><strong>Best Buy Canada</strong> is one of Canada’s largest and most successful omnichannel retailers, operating the Best Buy, Best Buy Mobile, and Geek Squad brands. With over 160 Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores across Canada and an expanded assortment of lifestyle products offered through BestBuy.ca, Best Buy is a leader in total retail, catering to customers how, when, and where they want to shop. Over the past three years, Best Buy Canada has made a strategic investment in products and services to support tech-enabled support and care models in our communities, including the creation of a new department called Best Buy Health. Best Buy Health has been working towards identifying ways to support older adults and their caregivers/partners with technology and services. For more information, visit BestBuy.ca.</p>

<p><strong>Health Cities</strong> is a Canadian not-for-profit corporation that works with clinicians, innovators, philanthropic organizations, and companies to develop new models of care that can drive better health outcomes and economic growth in the health sector. Our focus is on transforming innovations from our health sector into solutions that have commercial application and global relevance, adopting them for impact locally and scaling them for export to global markets.</p>

October 15, 2021

A Guide to Creating Dementia Friendly Communities

<p>On September 20, 2019, Honorable Josephine Pon, Minister of Seniors and Housing, joined The Brenda Strafford Foundation, Alberta Innovates, and Alberta Health Services to celebrate the launch of a new resource to help communities address dementia.</p>

<p><span class="pqCenter">As of March 31, 2018, more than 45,800 Albertans are living with dementia<br />
- <span style="font-size: 13px;">According to Alberta Health’s Population Estimates of Dementia in Alberta.</span></span></p>

<h3>Related information:</h3>

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<li><a href="http://www.dementiafriendlyalberta.ca/" target="_blank">Dementia Friendly Alberta</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.alberta.ca/alberta-dementia-strategy-and-action-plan.aspx" target="_blank">Alberta Dementia Strategy and Action Plan</a></li>
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September 23, 2019

Alberta healthcare initiatives recognized for making an impact on patient experience

<p>Tune in to view the award recipients share details about their program live on June 1, 2018 at 12 p.m.</p>

<p><a class="button" href="http://hqca.ca/health-care-provider-resources/patient-experience-awards/" target="_blank">Webcast </a></p>

May 31, 2018

Foundation awarded Leading Practice and Patient Experience recognition for Palliative Care

March 30, 2018

How Communities Shape the Way We Age

<p>The Foundation's President and CEO, Mike Conroy, joined a panel discussion hosted by West Campus Development Trust at the Kerby Centre, focused on the importance that our environments have on our quality of life as we age.</p>

February 28, 2018

Calgary Firefighters Receive Dementia Training

<p>The Calgary Fire Department and The Brenda Strafford Foundation held a demonstration dementia awareness training with Calgary firefighters as part The Foundation’s Dementia Friendly Communities Project.</p>

February 13, 2018

Local Businesses Get Dementia Friendly

January 15, 2018

Community workshop gives front line workers inside look at dementia

<p>Participants were put through a simulation exercise to experience the effects of dementia.</p>

November 09, 2017

Brenda Strafford Centre on Aging reframes what it means to age well

<p>Keynote presenters Janine Wiles, centre, and Andrew Wister, right, along with Brenda Strafford Centre on Aging academic lead David Hogan at the Resilience in Aging: Exploring People, Places, and Policies event on Oct. 3. <em>O'Brien Institute for Public Health photo</em></p>

<p><span class="pqCenter"><em>“Older adults play an important role in our society. They have a wealth of skills and experiences, and contribute to their families, communities, and society as a whole in very significant ways.”</em><br />
<em>- Dr. David Hogan</em></span></p>

October 24, 2017

Helping create dementia-friendly communities

<p>Seniors and Housing Minister Lori Sigurdson announced government funding for a new dementia-friendly communities pilot project in Calgary.</p>

September 06, 2017

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