{"id":1117,"date":"2024-09-12T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-coto.pantheonsite.io\/uncategorized\/ontario-health-updates-quality-standards-dementia\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T16:30:00","slug":"ontario-health-updates-quality-standards-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/news-articles\/ontario-health-updates-quality-standards-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Health Updates on Quality Standards \u2013 Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario Health has updated two quality standards: <em>Dementia: Care for People Living in the Community<\/em>&nbsp;(originally published in 2018) and&nbsp;<em>Behavioural Symptoms of Dementia: Care for People in Hospitals and Long-Term Care Homes<\/em>&nbsp;(originally published in 2016). The updates align with the most up-to-date clinical evidence and current practice in Ontario.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>What&rsquo;s New<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Some of the key updates to the two quality standards on dementia include:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Updated links, secondary references, and data sources where applicable&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Revised accompanying resources (i.e., patient guide, placemat, case for      improvement slide deck, technical specifications) to reflect changes to      the quality standard&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Updated terminology: for example,&nbsp;<em>health care provider<\/em>&nbsp;changed to&nbsp;<em>clinician or health care team<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>caregiver<\/em>&nbsp;changed to&nbsp;<em>care partner<\/em>, and<em>&nbsp;people or person living with      dementia<\/em>&nbsp;changed to&nbsp;<em>people or person with dementia&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Statement-specific changes to align definitions and rationales to current practice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Access the <em>Dementia: Care for People Living in the Community <\/em>standard and resources: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hqontario.ca\/evidence-to-improve-care\/quality-standards\/view-all-quality-standards\/dementia\" data-sf-ec-immutable=\"\">https:\/\/www.hqontario.ca\/evidence-to-improve-care\/quality-standards\/view-all-quality-standards\/dementia<\/a><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Access the <em>Behavioural Symptoms of Dementia: Care for People in Hospitals and Long-Term Care Homes <\/em>standard and resources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hqontario.ca\/evidence-to-improve-care\/quality-standards\/view-all-quality-standards\/behavioural-symptoms-of-dementia\" data-sf-ec-immutable=\"\">https:\/\/www.hqontario.ca\/evidence-to-improve-care\/quality-standards\/view-all-quality-standards\/behavioural-symptoms-of-dementia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealth.ca\/contact-us\" target=\"_blank\" data-sf-ec-immutable=\"\"><strong>contact Ontario Health<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario Health has updated two quality standards: Dementia: Care for People Living in the Community&nbsp;(originally published in 2018) and&nbsp;Behavioural Symptoms of Dementia: Care for People in Hospitals and Long-Term Care Homes&nbsp;(originally published in 2016). The updates align with the most up-to-date clinical evidence and current practice in Ontario.\u202f&nbsp; What&rsquo;s New&nbsp; Some of the key updates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-articles"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}