{"id":274,"date":"2019-09-30T09:55:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T14:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/?p=274"},"modified":"2019-09-30T09:55:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T14:55:59","slug":"college-of-rehabilitation-sciences-looks-ahead-at-homecoming-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/college-of-rehabilitation-sciences-looks-ahead-at-homecoming-event\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Rehabilitation Sciences looks ahead at Homecoming event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-container-2 wp-block-gallery-1 wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/09\/IMG_0258-sm-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"276\" data-link=\"http:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/?attachment_id=276\" class=\"wp-image-276\" 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srcset=\"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/09\/IMG_0244-sm-1024x871.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/09\/IMG_0244-sm-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/09\/IMG_0244-sm-768x653.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/09\/IMG_0244-sm-600x510.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/09\/IMG_0244-sm-900x765.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"815\" src=\"http:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/09\/IMG_0261-sm-1024x815.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"280\" data-link=\"http:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/?attachment_id=280\" class=\"wp-image-280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/09\/IMG_0261-sm-1024x815.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/09\/IMG_0261-sm-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/09\/IMG_0261-sm-768x611.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/09\/IMG_0261-sm-600x477.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/09\/IMG_0261-sm-900x716.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"764\" src=\"http:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/09\/IMG_0272-sm-1024x764.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"281\" data-link=\"http:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/?attachment_id=281\" class=\"wp-image-281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/09\/IMG_0272-sm-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/09\/IMG_0272-sm-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/09\/IMG_0272-sm-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/09\/IMG_0272-sm-600x448.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/09\/IMG_0272-sm-900x672.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Community life and technology were among the top themes as\nalumni gathered for the College of Rehabilitation Sciences Homecoming dinner\nand reception on Sept. 20. The event, held at Canada Inns Health Sciences\nCentre, featured presentations of research interests by four of the College\u2019s\nnewest faculty members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur focus is on rural and remote, and how we reach out to\npeople,\u201d Reg Urbanowski, Dean, College of Rehabilitation Sciences told the\ncrowd of over 50, which included faculty members and alumni from 1969, 1979,\n1984, 1989 and 1999. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Urbanowski pointed to the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)\nprogram as ways that technology will assist patient and client care in the near\nfuture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking at how you can use technology to advance the\nrelationship between the therapist and the person receiving care who is living\nfar away,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AAL is a high-tech project being led by one of the evening\u2019s\npresenters, Dr. Amine Choukou, assistant professor in the college\u2019s\noccupational therapy department. The project, a partnership between the U of M\nand Health Sciences Centre (HSC), involves the construction of a\n1,000-square-foot apartment equipped with tele-presence, tele-monitoring and\nassisted living technologies, the only facility of its kind in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Choukou, who just celebrated one year with the college, also\ndiscussed a project involving body-mapping technology he is currently\ndeveloping at Riverview Health Centre. The program aims to help the staff keep\nan eye out for dangers in common areas and the patients\u2019 room by detecting\nhazardous behaviours and immediately alerting staff members about the type of\nevent and its location so that they can intervene appropriately and on time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith this prototype, we can extract data points from the\nhuman bodies and objects that looks like stick figures and translate that\ninformation into a behaviours (such as throwing an object or tripping), and if\nit\u2019s worth to be communicated, an alert will be send to the staff by text,\u201d he\nsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alumni took interest in the presentation, as many had family\nmembers dealing with dementia and other chronic conditions. They also took\ninterest in Dr. Lisa Engel\u2019s presentation, which dealt with the \u201ctaboo\u201d subject\nof financial management and the financial well-being of adults living with\ncognitive impairment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think some of you thought when I said \u2018taboo\u2019 I was going\nto talk about sex, and then when I said \u2018money and finance\u2019 you hoped I would\ntalk about sex,\u201d she joked to the crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Engel, an assistant professor in occupational therapy, said,\nhealth-care professionals need to start talking about finance and money a lot\nmore with our patients and clients. \u201cPeople living with health conditions and\ndisabilities are one of the most financially vulnerable groups in our society,\u201d\nshe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Louise Chartrand, assistant professor in respiratory\ntherapy, also addressed a taboo subject in some area of her research program,\nwhich includes the development of an inter-professional simulation related to\nthe withdrawal of life-support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe believe that if physicians, nurses and respiratory\ntherapists would actually work together, it might&nbsp; make that difficult task better for families\nand for the professionals,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chartrand\u2019s research program also touches subjects that are\nless contingent.&nbsp; For instance, she is\nreally interested in improving health outcomes of those who suffers from\nchronic respiratory disease.&nbsp; She\nbelieves that respiratory therapist are allied health professionals with a\nunique set of knowledge that could potentially be helpful in a primary care\nsetting, especially in rural communities or if they integrate the My Health\nTeams program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Cara Brown, assistant professor in occupational therapy,\ndiscussed her research into improving the quality of care for older adults\nusing integrated care models. She said having rehabilitation part of\ninitiatives like the provincial government\u2019s My Health Teams program is a\npositive step towards being able to provide comprehensive and integrated care\nto older adult Manitobans living in the community so that they can live at home\nlonger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe idea with integrated care is that the services are\nprovided according to the client\u2019s needs, rather than according to where the\nclient ends up in the system,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Urbanowski also discussed the Kiga mamo anokimin onji\nminoayawin program, which translated from Ojibway means \u201cWe will work together\nfor health and wellness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The program is a partnership between the college and First\nNations communities in Manitoba, with the goal to bring the college&#8217;s services\nto the community based on their self-identified needs. He noted the program has\ngrown from five to nine communities in less than three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>University of Manitoba President and Vice-Chancellor David\nBarnard applauded the program, which also develops learning opportunities for\nGrade 6-12 students interested in exploring therapy programs as a potential\ncareer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis partnership creates long-term relationships between\nfaculty, students and community members in each community to develop a model\nthat brings services to those in need,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community life and technology were among the top themes as alumni gathered for the College of Rehabilitation Sciences Homecoming dinner and reception on Sept. 20. The event, held at Canada Inns Health Sciences Centre, featured presentations of research interests by four of the College\u2019s newest faculty members. \u201cOur focus is on rural and remote, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}