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Aging with Co-morbidities Network

The Aging with Co-morbidities Network is a collaborative network linking services, agencies and networks in Southeastern Ontario that are committed to sharing information and resources, seeking to improve awareness and navigation of community and health care services and creating innovative opportunities for improved care of older adults with multiple chronic diseases.

What are co-morbidities?

Dictionary definition: A concomitant but unrelated pathological or disease process
Source: www.dictionary.com

In plain english: Two or more health conditions that are unrelated but interact to affect the person’s overall health.

Membership of the Aging with Co-morbidities Network

Here are the members of the Aging with Co-morbidities Network, listed in alphabetical order. Click on the name of the organization for for detailed information.

Alzheimer Society of Kingston, Frontenac, and Lennox & Addington

The Alzheimer Society is a non-profit organization and registered charity that offers support, education, and advocacy for families of people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The Society also focuses on raising money to help find a cure and cause for the disease. If you suspect a friend or loved one may have Alzheimer’s, you should know that early assessment and treatment can make things easier.

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Canadian Diabetes Association

The Canadian Diabetes Association works to prevent diabetes and improve the quality of life for those affected, through research, education, service and advocacy. We offer presentations designed to help people understand diabetes, make healthy food choices, learn how to prevent diabetes and gain the knowledge needed to live well and improve the quality of life with diabetes. Based on the Canadian Diabetes Association’s Clinical Practice guidelines, the presentations reeflect input from health professionnals and other educators.

  • Web site: Canadian Diabetes Association
  • Phone: 613-384-9374 (Kingston); 613-962-6520; (Belleville) 613-345-0992; (Brockville); 1-800-BANTING (226-8464)

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Centre for Studies in Aging & Health at Providence Care

By acting as a focus for a number of age-related research and education activities at Providence Care and Queen’s University, the Centre for Studies in Aging & Health seeks to promote successful aging, prevent or delay the expression of disability and its consequences, and transform the organization of health services for the elderly in South East Ontario.

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Community Support Services in South East Ontario

Community Support Services are provided by local, not-for-profit agencies. Such agencies co-ordinate the effort of many caring and committed volunteers. These support services are flexible, personalized, responsive and least intrusive. They focus on health and wellness and are strongly centred on the client’s need. They strengthen the ability of family and neighbours to support the choice to live in the community. The services provided include a broad range of practical support services designed to help the elderly and adults with physical disabilities accomplish the tasks of everyday living.

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Gerontological Nursing Association of Ontario

With a membership of over 1800 gerontological nurses across the province, the Gerontological Nursing Association of Ontario advocates for a high standard of nursing care and related health services for older persons and promotes professionalism in gerontological nursing practice.

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Heart Failure Clinic at Hotel Dieu Hospital

The Heart Failure Clinic at Hotel Dieu Hopsital includes the following services: medication optimization; education about diet; lifestyle advice; and nurses providing telephone follow-up and advice. NOTE: Physician referral required.

  • Phone: 613-544-3400 ext 3352

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The KFL&A Falls Prevention Coalition

The KFL&A Falls Prevention Coalition was established in 1994 in response to the KFL&A District Health Council’s concern about the number of falls in our communities. The coalition is currently a dynamic partnership of community agencies and volunteers working towards reducing the number and severity of falls in our communities. Using a collaborative approach, the coalition: creates an injury prevention mindset, raises awareness about risk factors for falls, identifies potential fall hazards, and, encourages, promotes, and supports strategies and policies in the prevention of falls.

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Kingston General Hospital

Affiliated with Queen’s University, Kingston General Hospital (KGH) is a 456-bed teaching hospital that serves more than 500,000 people in southeastern Ontario and is the community hospital for the Kingston area. KGH provides an array of specialized acute and ambulatory clinical services including trauma, cardiac, stroke, pediatric, perinatal, end stage renal and stem cell transplants. Home to the Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario, KGH is dedicated to compassionate, high quality health care in a dynamic academic research environment. It features a robust research program and provides hands-on skill training for 1,900 health care students annually.

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Lennox & Addington Seniors Outreach Services

Lennox & Addington Seniors Outreach Services is a community support service agency providing health care to seniors in the south central area of the County of Lennox & Addington. Its mission is to improve the quality of life for seniors, in their home and in the community, by enhancing their physical and emotional well being, thus fostering their personal dignity and independence as defined by the individual.

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Ontario Osteoporosis Strategy

The stakeholders and professionals now implementing the Ontario Osteoporosis Strategy work across the continuum of osteoporosis prevention, screening and management. The work of the Ontario Osteoporosis Strategy is carried out through four distinct program areas: bone health, diagnosis, management of osteoporosis and professional education.

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Providence Care - Geriatric Psychiatry Services

Providence Care’s Geriatric Psychiatry Program provides district-wide inpatient, outpatient, and community outreach services for older persons with severe mental illness, cognitive impairment and behavioural disturbance.

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Providence Care - Specialized Geriatrics

The Specialized Geriatrics Program, St. Mary’s of the Lake Hospital, and the Division of Geriatric Medicine are a regional resource in four areas: specialized clinical services, community development, education, research and evaluation. Clinical services include a 16-bed inpatient unit, day hospital, and outpatient clinics at St. Mary’s of the Lake Hospital. Acute care consultation and outreach assessments are provided in people’s homes, long-term care facilities, and hospitals throughout South East Ontario.

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Seniors Association Kingston Region

The Seniors Association offers services in The Centre and in the community. Services are designed to promote healthy living, provide information, and assist seniors to “age in place”. All services are available to all seniors living in Kingston.

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SMILE Program

At home is where seniors want to live and, with the help of family and friends, most seniors are able to stay at home. But without the proper supports in place, increasing frailty can make even day-to-day activities, like cleaning and shopping for groceries, difficult. SMILE is a new regional program that will make it possible for more seniors who are frail and elderly, and most at risk of premature institutionalization, to receive help with activities that are essential to daily living, so they can remain in their homes. Because dignity is a matter of choice, SMILE will offer them options – in managing their care, in selecting services, in choosing who comes into their home.

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Southeastern Ontario Palliative & End-of-Life Network

Inclusive of and building on the strengths of current networks and organizations that coordinate and deliver care, the Southeastern Ontario Palliative & End-of-Life Care Network provides leadership and structure to facilitate the development of plans and processes to optimize regional palliative / end-of-life care and outcomes in South East Ontario.

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South East Community Care Access Centre

The South East Community Care Access Centre helps people access government-funded home care services and long-term care homes. It also helps people to navigate the array of community support and health agencies in South East Ontario. The South East Community Care Access Centre is funded and regulated by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and coordinates a variety of health services to maintain an individual's health, independence and quality of life.

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South East Ontario Regional Dementia Network

Dementia Networks are designed to improve the system of care for individuals with Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD), their families and caregivers by creating networks of service providers, clinicians, caregivers, agencies, and health related organizations. They work to enhance service delivery, education, research and planning.These local networks strive to improve the responsiveness of the local health care system and accessibility to services in order to provide continuous coordinated care for individuals with ADRD and their families.

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Stroke Network of Southeastern Ontario

Our vision is: Fewer strokes. Better Outcomes. The mission of the program is to continuously improve stroke prevention, care, recovery and re-integration through dynamic partnerships with providers and organisations. Public awareness, health system change and knowledge translation are central to our program’s mandate to enabling best practices across South East Ontario.

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