Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/10/2023
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Citizen and stakeholder perspectives about using remote-monitoring technology for older adults

Date: Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Event 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 you upon registration and the day of the event.

The Collaborative is committed to the accessibility and inclusion of persons with disabilities. If you require any accessibility accommodations to ensure your full participation at this event, please email collabor@mcmcaster.ca and/or let us know when you register for this event. 

Event Info

Join our Collaborative Conversation on citizen and stakeholder perspectives about using remote-monitoring technology for older adults, with Michael Wilson, Scientific Director, McMaster Health Forum and Associate Professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact at McMaster University, and Ron Beleno, caregiver and citizen stakeholder.

During this conversation between research partners, we will discuss: 

• The potential for using remote-monitoring technologies to enable people to stay in their homes or existing level of care in Canada 
• Findings from a series of four citizen panels and a national stakeholder dialogue about whether and how remote-monitoring technologies can be used to support older adults stay in their homes longer and/or in their existing level of care 
• Insights about actions that have been identified as important to advance this work 

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

This event is part of the Collaborative Conversations Series. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about future events. 

Related Resources

• McMaster Health Forum 
• Using remote-monitoring and associated technologies to enable people to stay in their homes or existing level of care settings in Canada

About our Speakers

Mike Wilson is the scientific director of the McMaster Health Forum and an associate professor in the Department of Health Evidence and Impact at McMaster University. His research is focused on harnessing and contextualizing the best available evidence along with citizen values and stakeholder insights to strengthen health and social systems. Mike and the Forum’s scientific team produce timely and demand-driven contextualized evidence syntheses that address pressing health and social system issues faced by decision-makers. This includes evidence syntheses produced within days (e.g., rapid evidence profiles or living evidence profiles), weeks (e.g., rapid syntheses that combine policy, system and/or political analyses) and months (e.g., systematic reviews or living evidence syntheses that are updated and enhanced over time). Mike also leads projects designed to spark action by convening citizen panels to identify citizens’ values and preferences and stakeholder dialogues to support collective problem-solving among government policymakers, system and organizational leaders, professional leaders and citizens. 

Follow Mike on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Ron Beleno is an experienced family caregiver to his late father who lived well with Alzheimer’s for over 10+ years while locally and remotely supporting his senior mother during their caregiving journey. As a seasoned advisor and speaker on topics such as dementia caregiving, innovation, and aging, he is well known for utilizing AgeTech and creative strategies to support both persons living with dementia and their caregivers aging in place at home and in their community.   

Ron is the co-chair of AGE-WELL’s Older Adult and Caregiver Advisory Committee (OACAC) and received their honorary fellows award for 2020. As an advisor and presenter for groups such as Alzheimer and Dementia Societies across Canada, a coach with Healthcare Excellence Canada (HEC), and a board member with the Ontario Strategy in Patient-Oriented Research Unit (OSSU), Ron actively engages being a lived experience research partner in health and innovation teams such as the Patient Expertise in Research Collaboration (PERC) at McMaster University and the Toronto Dementia Research Alliance (TDRA). 

Visit Ron on social media.