Working with the Cognitively Impaired: Innovative Response to
At-Risk Seniors 

Join Elder Abuse Ontario, the City of Brantford and the Ontario Brain Injury Association at our upcoming regional conference!

Innovative response programs from various regions in Ontario will be presented, highlighting key successes, challenges and opportunities for adaptation in other communities.

Learn about the neurological changes in the brain as a result of cognitive impairment and strategies to assist seniors at risk who are cognitively impaired!

Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Tracy Cheng, MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor, Program Director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Program. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton. Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, McMaster University

Case Study Speakers:

Sandra Buckle
Intensive Geriatric Services Worker, Community Addiction and Mental Health Services of Haldimand-Norfolk

Penny McVicar
Executive Director, Victim Services of Brantford

Stasia Landers
Seniors at Risk Coordinator, Community Mental Health Association of Peel-Dufferin

Beth Ward
Social Worker, North Bay Regional Health Centre

Aja Peterson
The Brantford Elder Abuse Strategy, Project Manager, Safe Brantford
Health and Human Services Department, Corporation of the City of Brantford