Supporting Your Aging Relatives: How to Work with Your Family Physician

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Supporting our loved ones as they age can be both rewarding and daunting, but may come with many questions.

The Vancouver Division of Family Practice, in partnership with S.U.C.C.E.S.S. is convening a much needed conversation about aging in Vancouver with a panel of Vancouver-based family doctors. Anyone caring, or expecting to care, for their elders are invited to attend to be part of this important discussion.

In this panel discussion moderated by Dr. Janet Kushner Kow (Vice-Chair of S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Board of Directors), physicians will give their insights into questions and concerns many family members have on:

1. What are the warning signs to look out for when your loved one may require residential care and how one can best prepare for it.
2. What early health and community supports are available to help family members care for my aging relative for as long as possible.
3. What does moving into a Residential Care Facility look like.

The event will end with a Question and Answer period with the audience. After the event, there will be time to connect with the panelists as well as a number of representatives from important health and community programs and services that you will want to know about.

• Date: Thursday, September 27, 2018
• Time: Doors open at 6:00pm for registration & refreshments | Event from 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Meet with panelists and resource people until 9:00pm
• Location: Choi Hall, S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Social Service Centre, 28 West Pender St, Vancouver

This event is part of the Vancouver Division of Family Practice's Speaker Series. We hope you will have many of your questions answered on how best to support and advocate for your aging family member through key points of transition in their lives.

MEET OUR MODERATOR:

Dr. Janet Kushner Kow is Vice Chair - Seniors' Care on the S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Board of Directors. Dr. Kow is a Geriatrician and physician program director for Elder Care at Providence Health Care. She works at St Paul’s, Vancouver General and Mt St. Joseph’s hospital as well as running an outpatient clinic for frail elderly.

MEET OUR PANELISTS:

• Dr. Timothy Hsia - Dr. Hsia was born and raised in Richmond, BC. He studied ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University and obtained a Masters in Nutrition at Columbia University. Dr. Hsia graduated from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and completed his residency training in family medicine at the University of British Columbia. Today, Dr. Hsia works as a family doctor at Metrohealth Clinic and Aberdeen Health Centre. He also serves his community as a residential care physician at South Granville Park Lodge. Dr. Hsia currently serves as a Director of the S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Foundation and is a member of Westside Church in Vancouver.
• Dr. Karen Fang - Dr. Fang graduated from UBC medical school in 2009. She works as a hospitalist at Vancouver General Hospital and Richmond Hospital and as a clinical instructor in the Department of Family Practice at UBC. She is also a house physician at Little Mountain Place.
• Dr. Michelle Lin - Dr. Lin is a Family Physician who graduated from the University of Toronto and completed her residency and care of the elderly fellowship at Queen’s University. She currently has a family practice at Forward Care Medical Clinic and also does residential care at Arbutus Care Centre.

Representatives from these community organizations will be in attendance:

• Vancouver Coastal Health- Home and Community Care
• NIDUS Personal Planning Resource Centre and Registry
• Alzheimer’s Society of BC
• S.U.C.C.E.S.S. - Hastings-Sunrise Better at Home Program
• South Vancouver Neighbourhood House - Better at Home Program