Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare

A community-based program that works to enhance the mental health and well- being of individuals over the age of 65 living at home in the community, in long- term care homes, and in retirement homes and exhibit significant mental health issues or at-risk behaviours. The program consists of comprehensive psychogeriatric assessment, psychoeducation, counselling, and psychiatric treatment. The goals of the program are to improve the health and well-being of older adults experiencing symptoms of mental illness, to reduce the need for psychiatric admissions and visits to hospital emergency departments, and to enhance the knowledge and skills of family caregivers and caregiving staff of facilities.