[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Thanks to the support of health professionals, social services, researchers, patients and carers, the Center of Excellence on Longevity engages and continues every year numerous actions and projects aimed at improving the quality of care provided to elderly patients, and of their caregivers.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Ministerial Initiative on Alzheimer’s Disease and other major neurocognitive disorders

• Ministerial Initiative on Alzheimer’s Disease and other major neurocognitive disorders
• Supervision and support for Phase 2 in the RUISSS McGill catchment area
• Coordination of the three-year action plan of the CIUSSS West-Central Montreal
• Creating pilot projects and knowledge transfer for the far North
• Inter-RUISSS coordination for the Greater Montreal

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• Telehealth
• Cloud Platform
• Remote consultations in geriatric care 
• Cognitive care nurses’ community of practice 
• Support for volunteer caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients, ACCEPT 
• BETTER

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• Improvement of the care pathway for elderly people at the CIUSSS West-Central Montreal
• Allocation of elderly, at-risk patients to complex care pathways and early emergency interventions at the Jewish General Hospital
• Creation of mobile BPSD teams
• Approval of the ER2 tool for use in primary care
• Updates to ER2
• Simulation workshops for volunteer caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients
• Appropriate usage of antipsychotic drugs in long-term residential treatment centres, the OPUS-AP program

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• Music as a therapy for patients hospitalized at St. Mary’s Hospital 
• Painting workshops to improve quality of life and social inclusion of elderly patients at the Jewish General Hospital
• Using music to reduce falls at St. Mary’s Hospital
• Using music to improve mood at St. Mary’s Hospital
• The effects of art on the over-65s with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: A-Health, an interventional clinical study

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• Gait and brain imaging
• Motoric cognitive risk and cognitive performance
• Motoric cognitive risk, risk factors, and cardiovascular disease

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