DAY 1 – Monday, March 5, 2018
8:00 am – 4:00 pm | Registration Open | Foyer, 3rd Floor | |
8:00 – 8:30 am | Breakfast | Great Room, 3rd Floor |
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8:30 – 9:00 am | Welcome | Great Room, 3rd Floor |
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9:00 – 10:00 am | Opening Keynote – This Chair Rocks: How Ageism Warps Our View of Long Life Ashton Applewhite |
Great Room, 3rd Floor |
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10:00 – 10:30 am | Morning Break | Exhibit Hall, 3rd Floor |
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10:00 am – 6:30 pm | Exhibit Hall Open | Exhibit Hall, 3rd Floor |
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10:30 am – 12:00 pm | Concurrent Sessions A1-A6 | ![]() |
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A1. Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast: 5 Leadership Keys to Unlock the Door to Culture Change | Great Room, 3rd Floor |
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A2. Finding Your Way®: How can People with Dementia Live Safely in your Community? | Strategy Room 1, 5th Floor |
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A3. Suddenly Old, but I’m Still Living … Unleash Your Creativity | Strategy Room 2, 5th Floor |
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A4. Relational Caring Learning Series: Exploring Relational Caring as a Transformational Approach to Caring and Learning | Strategy Room 3, 5th Floor |
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A5. Walking Together: Engaging Families as Partners in the Culture Change Journey | Strategy Room 5, 5th Floor |
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A6. Leveraging the Wisdom of Our Elders | Fallsview Studio, 3rd Floor | ||
12:00 – 1:00 pm | Lunch | Foyer, 3rd Floor | ![]() |
1:00 – 2:30 pm | Plenary Panel Session – Stigma, Stereotypes, and Segregation: The Need for a Revolution in Aging facilitated by Dr. Jennifer Carson, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno |
Great Room, 3rd Floor |
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2:30 – 3:15 pm | Afternoon Break | Exhibit Hall, 3rd Floor |
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3:15 – 4:45 pm | Concurrent Sessions B1-B6 | ![]() |
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B1. Symposium on Intergenerational Initiatives
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Great Room, 3rd Floor |
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B2. Creating a Sense of Comfort and Belonging for People Living with Dementia: An Environmental Audit | Strategy Room 1, 5th Floor |
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B3. Personal Transformation: The Key to Sustainable Culture Change | Strategy Room 2, 5th Floor |
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B4. Using Theatre to Attend to Practices and Policies Misaligned with Culture Change Values | Strategy Room 3, 5th Floor |
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B5. Painting a Picture of Dignity | Strategy Room 5, 5th Floor | ||
B6. Entering the Conversation: Mindful Ways to Engage in Collaborative End-of-Life Care | Fallsview Studio, 3rd Floor |
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5:00 – 6:30 pm | Networking Reception Hosted by the Ontario Centres for Learning, Research and Innovation in Long-Term Care |
Exhibit Hall, 3rd Floor |
DAY 2 – Tuesday, March 6, 2018
8:00 am – 2:00 pm | Registration Open | Foyer 3rd Floor | |
8:00 – 8:30 am | Breakfast | Great Room, 3rd Floor |
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8:30 – 8:45 am | Welcome | Great Room, 3rd Floor |
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8:45 – 10:00 am | Keynote – Ibasho: Include and Empower Elders to Reinvent our Communities Dr. Emi Kiyota |
Great Room, 3rd Floor |
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10:00 – 10:30 am | Morning Break | Exhibit Hall, 3rd Floor |
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10:00 – 2:00 pm | Exhibit Hall Open | Exhibit Hall, 3rd Floor |
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10:30 am – 12:00 pm | Concurrent Sessions C1- C6 | ![]() |
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C1. Comprehensive Cultural Transformation of The Green House Model | Great Room, 3rd Floor |
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C2. Relational Caring and the Arts: How we do it at the Dotsa Bitove Wellness Academy | Strategy Room 1, 5th Floor |
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C3. “It’s Given Me a New Life!”: Residents Helping Residents Reduce Social Isolation | Strategy Room 2, 5th Floor |
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C4-Part 1. CHOICE+: New Tools and Resources to Improve the Mealtime Experience C4-Part 2. Improving Stakeholder Engagement for Successful Practice Change in Residential Care Homes |
Strategy Room 3, 5th Floor |
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C5. Engaging the Stage: Enhancing Clinical/Interprofessional Competencies and Reflective Practice Through Applied Theatre | Strategy Room 5, 5th Floor | ||
C6. An Interactive Exploration of Dementia and Human Rights | Fallsview Studio, 3rd Floor |
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12:00 – 1:00 pm | Lunch | Foyer, 3rd Floor | ![]() |
1:00 – 1:45 pm | Concurrent Sessions D1 – D6 | ![]() |
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D1. Learning from Ross | Great Room, 3rd Floor |
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D2. Neighbourhood Team Development: Driving Employee Engagement and Organizational Effectiveness through Self-Directed Care Teams | Strategy Room 1, 5th Floor |
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D3. Better together: Enhancing Technology Through Participatory Design | Strategy Room 2, 5th Floor |
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D4. LIVING the Dementia Journey: Fostering Community Through Authentic Care Partnerships | Strategy Room 3, 5th Floor |
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D5. The Power of Storytelling in Culture Change | Strategy Room 5, 5th Floor | ||
D6. Pioneer Network: Your Partner on the Culture Change Journey | Fallsview Studio, 3rd Floor |
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1:45 – 2:15 pm | Afternoon Break | Exhibit Hall, 3rd Floor |
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2:15 – 3:30 pm | Closing Keynote – The Happiness Equation Neil Pasricha Happiness Expert | Bestselling Author of The Book of Awesome |
Great Room, 3rd Floor |
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3:30 – 4:00 pm | Closing Remarks | Great Room, 3rd Floor |