Date/Time
Date(s) - 28/09/2022
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Navigating the stroke recovery journey: Working in partnership with older adults recovering from a stroke

A Collaborative Conversation series event

Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.  
Webinar Presentation: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. 
Reflecting Together: 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (see details further below)

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All are welcome to attend this event. The virtual event link will be sent to registrants one day prior to the event.

Join our Collaborative Conversation on Wednesday, September 28 at 12:00 p.m. with Dr. Maureen Markle-Reid, Scientific Co-Lead, McMaster Collaborative for Health and Aging and Professor, School of Nursing at McMaster University, Dr. Kathy Fisher, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing at McMaster University and David Dayler, Patient Partner.

This conversation between research partners will help achieve the following objectives: 

• Discuss the successes, challenges, and lessons learned on how to effectively engage older adults recovering from a stroke, as patient partners, from the perspective of the patients and researchers.   
• Provide guidance on how to best engage patient partners in the research process and capture the impact of their engagement.  

Reflecting Together will take place immediately following this live webinar at 1:00 p.m. This is an opportunity for trainees, older adults and caregivers to come together and share their thoughts on the topics discussed during this event. We hope you will be able to join as we continue the conversation and take our learnings into action. 

Biographies 

Maureen Markle-Reid is a Professor in the School of Nursing, Scientific Co-lead at the McMaster Collaborative for Health and Aging, Scientific Director of the Aging, Community and Health Research Unit and holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Person-Centred Interventions for Older Adults with Multimorbidity and their Caregivers at McMaster University. She is an internationally recognized researcher in health and economic evaluations of complex health and nursing interventions. Her program of research focuses on the promotion of optimal aging at home for older adults with multimorbidity and to support their family caregivers, as well as refining methods and measures for determining the effectiveness of interventions and translating effective interventions into clinical practice. Her most recently CIHR-funded trials focus on nurse-led interventions for community-living older adults with depression, diabetes, stroke, and dementia. 

Kathryn Fisher is an Assistant Professor and Health Sciences Lead in the School of Nursing at McMaster University. She is actively involved in shaping the undergraduate nursing curriculum as it relates to health sciences and evidence-informed decision making. Kathryn’s research focuses on chronic illness and multimorbidity in older adults. She is currently using her expertise in quantitative analyses to analyze population-level and clinical trial data with the goal of answering questions about the prevalence of chronic illness and multimorbidity, changes over time in disease prevalence, how multimorbidity shapes healthcare service use or other outcomes, measurement issues, and socio-demographic and other factors shaping the relationship between multimorbidity and service use. Kathryn is interested in improving clinical trial methods, particularly in relation to linking quantitative data with qualitative research and implementation science.

David Dayler has worked as an educator, parish minister, adjunct faculty at St. Michael’s University, retreat facilitator, faith formation consultant, and program coordinator in the Diocese of Hamilton. David holds a Master of Theological Studies from St. Michael’s University, University of Toronto. He recently retired as the Director of the Discipleship & Parish Life Office for the Diocese of Hamilton and is now the Director of Catechesis at St. Ann’s Parish in Ancaster. David was the co-chair of the Hamilton Diocesan Synodal process and a member of the ACBO writing team who crafted the provincial Synodal response. This fall David will be a delegate attending the Third International Congress on Catechesis, in Rome where they will explore “The synodal perspective of an evangelizing catechesis.” He is the co-author of Gifted by God, a Confirmation Preparation program and DVD retreat resource, published by Novalis. His first book, Being a Man After God’s Own Heart addressing issues of men’s spirituality is a popular parish resource and has been featured on Salt & Life radio as well as in The Saint Anthony Messenger magazine. His latest, Sharing Our Stories; Sharing Our Faith, a resource for grandparents came out in 2017. Married to his wife Linda for 50 years they have three grown sons and three beautiful grandchildren. David experienced a stroke in 2017 and has been working since his recovery to assist in the ongoing improvement of after-stroke care for patients. He is co-chair of the Patient and Family Advisory Committee for Hamilton Health Sciences and a member of the writing team for the My Stroke Journey Map.