December 2021 LBD PCN Newsletter

 Our December newsletter is out! Read about:

- Edmonton Zone Health Education

- How to access our providers

- Team-Based Care Program

- Prescription To Get Active

- Alberta Seniors’ Centre Without Walls Program

Read the newsletter here: December 2021 LBD PCN Newsletter

Finding Balance activity challenge

SENIORS' KEEP ACTIVE CHALLENGE

November 1-30, 2015

We want to help seniors keep active! Join us as we travel across Alberta. Choose where you want to go and then start your journey! Any physical activity will count towards the trip. Keep track of how many steps you take or how many minutes of physical activity you do each day. Add these into the UWALK website to see how far you go by the end of November. If you belong to a senior’s centre or recreation program, you join as a group to travel together. Groups can order a map to track your group’s progress.

The Seniors’ Keep Active Challenge is sponsored by UWALK. Register on the UWALK website and then join the Challenge. You can join the Challenge starting October 26, 2015.

Join the Challenge! Click here to register.

Get your free Finding Balance pedometer at the Leduc Beaumont Devon Primary Care Network (while supplies last).

Senior's Falls Prevention Month - Virtual Trek Across Alberta

This November’s Seniors’ Falls Prevention month focuses on the ‘Keep Active’ message. In partnership with UWALK, Finding Balance is hosting a virtual TREK across Alberta. Seniors across the province can join the TREK challenge by counting and recording the number of steps they take from November 1 to 30. The virtual TREK challenge begins in Coutts, Alberta and finishes in Fitzgerald, Alberta. The goal is 3,263,500 steps.

Let's take steps together to prevent falls.

You can pick up your free Finding Balance pedometer and passport (while supplies last) at the Leduc Beaumont Devon Primary Care Network office.The passport provides information on how to join, count steps, convert minutes of other activities like biking or shoveling into steps and where to log all steps. Group leaders can log steps for their group or individuals can log their own steps.

#301, 4710 - 50 Street, Leduc AB.

www.lbdpcn.com

For more information on Finding Balance and preventing falls, please visit:

http://www.findingbalancealberta.ca

Dementia: Signs, Prevention & Treatment

LBD PCN member physician, Dr. Trevpr Byers and LBD PCN Geriatric Nurse, Carla Moore, operate the Leduc Eldercare Consultation Team one day per week out of the Leduc Community Hospital.

The goal of this program is to ensure seniors living in Leduc, Beaumont, Devon, Calmar and Leduc County enjoy optimal health and quality of life while remaining in the community for as long as possible.

The team provides consultation to seniors experiencing the following:

• cognitive/behavioural concerns
• functional decline (falls, mobility issues)
• review of medications
• capacity assessment

Recently Dr. Byers was interviewed by the Leduc Representative about dementia. Please read the article, here: Dementia: Signs, Prevention & Treatment