Challenging Behaviours Evaluation

The Department of Health Continuing Care Branch offers a comprehensive program to build capacity of people and systems working with older adults with challenging behaviours based on dementia and/or mental illness. They’ve contracted us to work collaboratively with stakeholders across the province to develop an evaluation framework for the program. We held two rounds of focus groups in Sydney, New Glasgow, Halifax and Yarmouth to gather input from stakeholders on the design of the evaluation. Then we developed the evaluation framework, the data collection protocols, and a detailed evaluation design report. Our last tasks are to meet with staff to review the protocols and make any necessary revisions, then present the final report to the program’s Provincial Advisory Committee.