Memory Care in Primary Care - An Interagency Memory Care Service within a Community-Based Family Health Team

A Team Optimization Project to develop an Inter-Agency team-based Memory Care Service which provides all patients in a community-based FHO with memory concerns or dementia access to appropriate evidence-based assessment and management by their known Primary Care Providers.

Location: Peterborough, Ontario

Lead Organization: The Medical Centre Family Health Organization
Focus: Developing a partnership with the Alzheimer Society and providing training for an RN Embedded Assessor and for physicians/nurses in the FHT.

Project Team:

• Project Co-Lead: Dr. David Carr, Family Physician, The Medical Centre Family Health Organization

• Project Co-Lead: Dr. Jennifer Ingram, Founder and Consultant Geriatrician, The Kawartha Centre

• Jennifer Johnstone, Executive Director, Alzheimer Society of Peterborough

• Donna Hickey, Person with Lived Experience

• Geneviève Arsenault-Lapierre, Senior Research Associate at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital

• Don Bird, Information Technology Specialist, The Medical Centre Family Health Organization

• Jenna Butcher, Allied Health Receptionist, Peterborough Family Health Team

• Brenda Wigmore, RN, Peterborough Family Health

  Team

• Jennifer Gooderham, Client Support Coordinator,

  Alzheimer Society of Peterborough

• Sara Kennedy, RN, Peterborough Family Health

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• Sara deRuiter, Client Support Coordinator,

  Alzheimer Society of Peterborough