CADeN | ReCAD
@caden-recad.bsky.social
Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network (CADeN). Reducing harm, raising awareness & promoting health w/ safer alternatives. #deprescribing
📣 Call for Applications: Co-Chair, CADeN Health Care Provider Committee
Want to enhance your leadership skills and expand your influence within the Canadian health professions landscape? We're looking for motivated health care providers to lead our Committee!
More info here: tinyurl.com/bdft9m4k
Want to enhance your leadership skills and expand your influence within the Canadian health professions landscape? We're looking for motivated health care providers to lead our Committee!
More info here: tinyurl.com/bdft9m4k
November 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
📣 Call for Applications: Co-Chair, CADeN Health Care Provider Committee
Want to enhance your leadership skills and expand your influence within the Canadian health professions landscape? We're looking for motivated health care providers to lead our Committee!
More info here: tinyurl.com/bdft9m4k
Want to enhance your leadership skills and expand your influence within the Canadian health professions landscape? We're looking for motivated health care providers to lead our Committee!
More info here: tinyurl.com/bdft9m4k
🎉 Our Indigenization Working Group (IWG) published its first paper:
Discover important learnings from its work to support med. appropriateness among Indigenous Peoples in Canada, through relationship building, the Four R approach & commitment to Indigenous data sovereignty:
tinyurl.com/ympjc968
Discover important learnings from its work to support med. appropriateness among Indigenous Peoples in Canada, through relationship building, the Four R approach & commitment to Indigenous data sovereignty:
tinyurl.com/ympjc968
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
🎉 Our Indigenization Working Group (IWG) published its first paper:
Discover important learnings from its work to support med. appropriateness among Indigenous Peoples in Canada, through relationship building, the Four R approach & commitment to Indigenous data sovereignty:
tinyurl.com/ympjc968
Discover important learnings from its work to support med. appropriateness among Indigenous Peoples in Canada, through relationship building, the Four R approach & commitment to Indigenous data sovereignty:
tinyurl.com/ympjc968
Looking for ways to reduce anticholinergic burden and tools to talk about this topic with your patients?
The @england.nhs.uk launched a hub with many clinician + patient-facing resources (some of which were inspired by CADeN resources!) to support safer use of anticholinergics:
tinyurl.com/mr3adr6c
The @england.nhs.uk launched a hub with many clinician + patient-facing resources (some of which were inspired by CADeN resources!) to support safer use of anticholinergics:
tinyurl.com/mr3adr6c
November 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Looking for ways to reduce anticholinergic burden and tools to talk about this topic with your patients?
The @england.nhs.uk launched a hub with many clinician + patient-facing resources (some of which were inspired by CADeN resources!) to support safer use of anticholinergics:
tinyurl.com/mr3adr6c
The @england.nhs.uk launched a hub with many clinician + patient-facing resources (some of which were inspired by CADeN resources!) to support safer use of anticholinergics:
tinyurl.com/mr3adr6c
💊 New CADeN Infographic: Do I Really Need an Antibiotic?
For World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (Nov 18-24), help us promote appropriate use of antibiotics!
Check out our new public-friendly infographic with key info on antibiotic resistance and how to prevent it: tinyurl.com/29sdwwmr
For World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (Nov 18-24), help us promote appropriate use of antibiotics!
Check out our new public-friendly infographic with key info on antibiotic resistance and how to prevent it: tinyurl.com/29sdwwmr
November 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
💊 New CADeN Infographic: Do I Really Need an Antibiotic?
For World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (Nov 18-24), help us promote appropriate use of antibiotics!
Check out our new public-friendly infographic with key info on antibiotic resistance and how to prevent it: tinyurl.com/29sdwwmr
For World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (Nov 18-24), help us promote appropriate use of antibiotics!
Check out our new public-friendly infographic with key info on antibiotic resistance and how to prevent it: tinyurl.com/29sdwwmr
🗞️ Hot off the press! Check out our November newsletter, showcasing our new infographic for World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week, our Indigenization Working Group's first publication, info about the recipients of our student funding program and upcoming events 👇
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November 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
🗞️ Hot off the press! Check out our November newsletter, showcasing our new infographic for World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week, our Indigenization Working Group's first publication, info about the recipients of our student funding program and upcoming events 👇
mailchi.mp/caden-recad/...
mailchi.mp/caden-recad/...
💊 5 Tips to Manage Polypharmacy:
A toolkit co-developed by Canada’s Drug Agency, @ismpcanada.bsky.social & @deprescribing.bsky.social to help primary care providers identify and address polypharmacy with their patients.
Download the toolkit here:
www.cda-amc.ca/appropriate-...
A toolkit co-developed by Canada’s Drug Agency, @ismpcanada.bsky.social & @deprescribing.bsky.social to help primary care providers identify and address polypharmacy with their patients.
Download the toolkit here:
www.cda-amc.ca/appropriate-...
November 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
💊 5 Tips to Manage Polypharmacy:
A toolkit co-developed by Canada’s Drug Agency, @ismpcanada.bsky.social & @deprescribing.bsky.social to help primary care providers identify and address polypharmacy with their patients.
Download the toolkit here:
www.cda-amc.ca/appropriate-...
A toolkit co-developed by Canada’s Drug Agency, @ismpcanada.bsky.social & @deprescribing.bsky.social to help primary care providers identify and address polypharmacy with their patients.
Download the toolkit here:
www.cda-amc.ca/appropriate-...
Attention Atlantic Canada: this month, our partner Sleepwell is hosting FREE educational events for public members and community organisers in NS, NB & NL about sleep, insomnia and sleeping pills!
Attendance can be virtual and in-person (spaces limited).
Scan QR codes below to register:
Attendance can be virtual and in-person (spaces limited).
Scan QR codes below to register:
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Attention Atlantic Canada: this month, our partner Sleepwell is hosting FREE educational events for public members and community organisers in NS, NB & NL about sleep, insomnia and sleeping pills!
Attendance can be virtual and in-person (spaces limited).
Scan QR codes below to register:
Attendance can be virtual and in-person (spaces limited).
Scan QR codes below to register:
Register to the next Int'l Deprescribing Journal Club on Nov 27!
Hear practical lessons & analyses from the SPPiRE trial, a cluster RCT assessing the effectiveness of a deprescribing intervention in older patients with high levels of polypharmacy in Irish primary care.
👉 tinyurl.com/39seezfu
Hear practical lessons & analyses from the SPPiRE trial, a cluster RCT assessing the effectiveness of a deprescribing intervention in older patients with high levels of polypharmacy in Irish primary care.
👉 tinyurl.com/39seezfu
November 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Register to the next Int'l Deprescribing Journal Club on Nov 27!
Hear practical lessons & analyses from the SPPiRE trial, a cluster RCT assessing the effectiveness of a deprescribing intervention in older patients with high levels of polypharmacy in Irish primary care.
👉 tinyurl.com/39seezfu
Hear practical lessons & analyses from the SPPiRE trial, a cluster RCT assessing the effectiveness of a deprescribing intervention in older patients with high levels of polypharmacy in Irish primary care.
👉 tinyurl.com/39seezfu
November is Fall Prevention Month! #FallPreventionMonthCA
Falls are the leading cause of injury-related hospitalizations among Canadian older adults – meds can be a contributing factor!
Read our article on Medications & Falls to learn which meds can affect our balance and how: tinyurl.com/3crwm9dx
Falls are the leading cause of injury-related hospitalizations among Canadian older adults – meds can be a contributing factor!
Read our article on Medications & Falls to learn which meds can affect our balance and how: tinyurl.com/3crwm9dx
November 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
November is Fall Prevention Month! #FallPreventionMonthCA
Falls are the leading cause of injury-related hospitalizations among Canadian older adults – meds can be a contributing factor!
Read our article on Medications & Falls to learn which meds can affect our balance and how: tinyurl.com/3crwm9dx
Falls are the leading cause of injury-related hospitalizations among Canadian older adults – meds can be a contributing factor!
Read our article on Medications & Falls to learn which meds can affect our balance and how: tinyurl.com/3crwm9dx
Attending #FMF2025 in Winnipeg?
📚 Visit us at booth 402 to pick up resources from our team, Sleepwell & @deprescribing.bsky.social !
📅 Attend Louise Ferland-Papillon & Solveig Nilson’s workshop on Deprescribing in Complex Patients on Fri. Nov 7, 11:30 AM (Room GH)
📚 Visit us at booth 402 to pick up resources from our team, Sleepwell & @deprescribing.bsky.social !
📅 Attend Louise Ferland-Papillon & Solveig Nilson’s workshop on Deprescribing in Complex Patients on Fri. Nov 7, 11:30 AM (Room GH)
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Attending #FMF2025 in Winnipeg?
📚 Visit us at booth 402 to pick up resources from our team, Sleepwell & @deprescribing.bsky.social !
📅 Attend Louise Ferland-Papillon & Solveig Nilson’s workshop on Deprescribing in Complex Patients on Fri. Nov 7, 11:30 AM (Room GH)
📚 Visit us at booth 402 to pick up resources from our team, Sleepwell & @deprescribing.bsky.social !
📅 Attend Louise Ferland-Papillon & Solveig Nilson’s workshop on Deprescribing in Complex Patients on Fri. Nov 7, 11:30 AM (Room GH)
💬 Oct 27-31 is Canadian Patient Safety Week!
Safety is more than the absence of harm. This week (and beyond!), join us in listening more deeply, making space for every voice and taking steps together towards safer medication use, and safer care, for all.
More info on #CPSW2025: tinyurl.com/4ujz2nvb
Safety is more than the absence of harm. This week (and beyond!), join us in listening more deeply, making space for every voice and taking steps together towards safer medication use, and safer care, for all.
More info on #CPSW2025: tinyurl.com/4ujz2nvb
October 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
💬 Oct 27-31 is Canadian Patient Safety Week!
Safety is more than the absence of harm. This week (and beyond!), join us in listening more deeply, making space for every voice and taking steps together towards safer medication use, and safer care, for all.
More info on #CPSW2025: tinyurl.com/4ujz2nvb
Safety is more than the absence of harm. This week (and beyond!), join us in listening more deeply, making space for every voice and taking steps together towards safer medication use, and safer care, for all.
More info on #CPSW2025: tinyurl.com/4ujz2nvb
We have the pleasure of welcoming four new clinicians to our Health Care Provider Committee, strengthening its membership with perspectives in family medicine, psychiatry, developmental disabilities, geriatrics and pharmacology.
Please join us in welcoming our new members!
Please join us in welcoming our new members!
October 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We have the pleasure of welcoming four new clinicians to our Health Care Provider Committee, strengthening its membership with perspectives in family medicine, psychiatry, developmental disabilities, geriatrics and pharmacology.
Please join us in welcoming our new members!
Please join us in welcoming our new members!
🎥 Lights, camera, action: filming our next patient testimonial!
We discovered Rose-Angèle's (in white) deprescribing story, which began at a time when she was taking 30 meds/day.
Stay tuned for her inspiring story, and explore more testimonials here: deprescribingnetwork.ca/testimonials
We discovered Rose-Angèle's (in white) deprescribing story, which began at a time when she was taking 30 meds/day.
Stay tuned for her inspiring story, and explore more testimonials here: deprescribingnetwork.ca/testimonials
October 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
🎥 Lights, camera, action: filming our next patient testimonial!
We discovered Rose-Angèle's (in white) deprescribing story, which began at a time when she was taking 30 meds/day.
Stay tuned for her inspiring story, and explore more testimonials here: deprescribingnetwork.ca/testimonials
We discovered Rose-Angèle's (in white) deprescribing story, which began at a time when she was taking 30 meds/day.
Stay tuned for her inspiring story, and explore more testimonials here: deprescribingnetwork.ca/testimonials
🎉 Registration is now open for ICOD 2026!
Secure your spot to this unique event, an opportunity to connect with the international deprescribing community, showcase your work and learn from leaders in the field.
Early bird available until Jan 31st 2026: events.myconferencesuite.com/ICOD2026/reg...
Secure your spot to this unique event, an opportunity to connect with the international deprescribing community, showcase your work and learn from leaders in the field.
Early bird available until Jan 31st 2026: events.myconferencesuite.com/ICOD2026/reg...
October 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🎉 Registration is now open for ICOD 2026!
Secure your spot to this unique event, an opportunity to connect with the international deprescribing community, showcase your work and learn from leaders in the field.
Early bird available until Jan 31st 2026: events.myconferencesuite.com/ICOD2026/reg...
Secure your spot to this unique event, an opportunity to connect with the international deprescribing community, showcase your work and learn from leaders in the field.
Early bird available until Jan 31st 2026: events.myconferencesuite.com/ICOD2026/reg...
Today is National Seniors Day, a time to recognize the important role of that older adults & community orgs play in advocating for safer healthcare and in strengthening community well-being.
Their dedication has been, and continues to be, instrumental to CADeN’s mission!
Their dedication has been, and continues to be, instrumental to CADeN’s mission!
October 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Today is National Seniors Day, a time to recognize the important role of that older adults & community orgs play in advocating for safer healthcare and in strengthening community well-being.
Their dedication has been, and continues to be, instrumental to CADeN’s mission!
Their dedication has been, and continues to be, instrumental to CADeN’s mission!
Tomorrow we honour Survivors of residential schools, the children who never returned home, their families & communities.
CADeN is committed to listening & learning from Indigenous patients & clinicians, in our mission to promote safe, inclusive & culturally respectful care for Indigenous Peoples.
CADeN is committed to listening & learning from Indigenous patients & clinicians, in our mission to promote safe, inclusive & culturally respectful care for Indigenous Peoples.
September 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Tomorrow we honour Survivors of residential schools, the children who never returned home, their families & communities.
CADeN is committed to listening & learning from Indigenous patients & clinicians, in our mission to promote safe, inclusive & culturally respectful care for Indigenous Peoples.
CADeN is committed to listening & learning from Indigenous patients & clinicians, in our mission to promote safe, inclusive & culturally respectful care for Indigenous Peoples.
📸 Snapshot of a CADeN booth at a community event in Hudson, QC!
A meaningful opportunity to connect with individuals & share resources on med safety, including @ismpcanada.bsky.social @deprescribing.bsky.social & Canada's Drug Agency's new tool "5 Questions to Ask About My Multiple Medications”!
A meaningful opportunity to connect with individuals & share resources on med safety, including @ismpcanada.bsky.social @deprescribing.bsky.social & Canada's Drug Agency's new tool "5 Questions to Ask About My Multiple Medications”!
September 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
📸 Snapshot of a CADeN booth at a community event in Hudson, QC!
A meaningful opportunity to connect with individuals & share resources on med safety, including @ismpcanada.bsky.social @deprescribing.bsky.social & Canada's Drug Agency's new tool "5 Questions to Ask About My Multiple Medications”!
A meaningful opportunity to connect with individuals & share resources on med safety, including @ismpcanada.bsky.social @deprescribing.bsky.social & Canada's Drug Agency's new tool "5 Questions to Ask About My Multiple Medications”!
📣 Call for Quebec physicians, pharms & nurses!
Help guide the development of opioid deprescribing tools by participating in 90min focus groups this Oct/Nov! Participants will receive financial compensation or their time.
Fill out the eligibility form here: udes.limesurvey.net/138471?lang=en
Help guide the development of opioid deprescribing tools by participating in 90min focus groups this Oct/Nov! Participants will receive financial compensation or their time.
Fill out the eligibility form here: udes.limesurvey.net/138471?lang=en
September 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
📣 Call for Quebec physicians, pharms & nurses!
Help guide the development of opioid deprescribing tools by participating in 90min focus groups this Oct/Nov! Participants will receive financial compensation or their time.
Fill out the eligibility form here: udes.limesurvey.net/138471?lang=en
Help guide the development of opioid deprescribing tools by participating in 90min focus groups this Oct/Nov! Participants will receive financial compensation or their time.
Fill out the eligibility form here: udes.limesurvey.net/138471?lang=en
💊 Taking multiple medications? 5 questions to ask
To mark Canadian Patient Safety Week, join our free webinar to learn 5 key questions to ask about your medications.
📅 Oct 29th at 12 PM ET (English) / 2 PM ET (French)
🔗 Register: deprescribingnetwork.ca/5q-webinar
Open to all audiences!
To mark Canadian Patient Safety Week, join our free webinar to learn 5 key questions to ask about your medications.
📅 Oct 29th at 12 PM ET (English) / 2 PM ET (French)
🔗 Register: deprescribingnetwork.ca/5q-webinar
Open to all audiences!
September 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
💊 Taking multiple medications? 5 questions to ask
To mark Canadian Patient Safety Week, join our free webinar to learn 5 key questions to ask about your medications.
📅 Oct 29th at 12 PM ET (English) / 2 PM ET (French)
🔗 Register: deprescribingnetwork.ca/5q-webinar
Open to all audiences!
To mark Canadian Patient Safety Week, join our free webinar to learn 5 key questions to ask about your medications.
📅 Oct 29th at 12 PM ET (English) / 2 PM ET (French)
🔗 Register: deprescribingnetwork.ca/5q-webinar
Open to all audiences!
✉️ Our Sept. newsletter it out!
Join our public webinar for Canadian Patient Safety Week 2025, learn about antipsychotic use in LTC, help guide the development of guidelines for potentially inappropriate med use in adults aged 18-65, and much more!
mailchi.mp/caden-recad/...
Join our public webinar for Canadian Patient Safety Week 2025, learn about antipsychotic use in LTC, help guide the development of guidelines for potentially inappropriate med use in adults aged 18-65, and much more!
mailchi.mp/caden-recad/...
September 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
✉️ Our Sept. newsletter it out!
Join our public webinar for Canadian Patient Safety Week 2025, learn about antipsychotic use in LTC, help guide the development of guidelines for potentially inappropriate med use in adults aged 18-65, and much more!
mailchi.mp/caden-recad/...
Join our public webinar for Canadian Patient Safety Week 2025, learn about antipsychotic use in LTC, help guide the development of guidelines for potentially inappropriate med use in adults aged 18-65, and much more!
mailchi.mp/caden-recad/...
NEW TOOL by Canada's Drug Agency, @deprescribing.bsky.social & @ismpcanada.bsky.social
Help your patients become more informed about their meds by supporting patient-clinician conversations about meds, their benefits, side effects, and deprescribing!
Download the brochure: tinyurl.com/2p9z7v96
Help your patients become more informed about their meds by supporting patient-clinician conversations about meds, their benefits, side effects, and deprescribing!
Download the brochure: tinyurl.com/2p9z7v96
September 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
NEW TOOL by Canada's Drug Agency, @deprescribing.bsky.social & @ismpcanada.bsky.social
Help your patients become more informed about their meds by supporting patient-clinician conversations about meds, their benefits, side effects, and deprescribing!
Download the brochure: tinyurl.com/2p9z7v96
Help your patients become more informed about their meds by supporting patient-clinician conversations about meds, their benefits, side effects, and deprescribing!
Download the brochure: tinyurl.com/2p9z7v96
This Fall, join 400+ clinicians who have registered to this FREE online course all about deprescribing!
An evidence-informed, interactive course developed to increase clinicians’ and trainees’ awareness, knowledge and skills around deprescribing: tinyurl.com/56dn7jcj
An evidence-informed, interactive course developed to increase clinicians’ and trainees’ awareness, knowledge and skills around deprescribing: tinyurl.com/56dn7jcj
September 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This Fall, join 400+ clinicians who have registered to this FREE online course all about deprescribing!
An evidence-informed, interactive course developed to increase clinicians’ and trainees’ awareness, knowledge and skills around deprescribing: tinyurl.com/56dn7jcj
An evidence-informed, interactive course developed to increase clinicians’ and trainees’ awareness, knowledge and skills around deprescribing: tinyurl.com/56dn7jcj
📣 NOW OPEN: ICOD 2026 Call for Submissions
Want to present your med. appropriateness & deprescribing work to international peers and leaders in the field?
Submit your scientific abstracts, workshops, panels, and seminars before Oct 15: www.deprescribingnetwork.ca/icod2026
Want to present your med. appropriateness & deprescribing work to international peers and leaders in the field?
Submit your scientific abstracts, workshops, panels, and seminars before Oct 15: www.deprescribingnetwork.ca/icod2026
September 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
📣 NOW OPEN: ICOD 2026 Call for Submissions
Want to present your med. appropriateness & deprescribing work to international peers and leaders in the field?
Submit your scientific abstracts, workshops, panels, and seminars before Oct 15: www.deprescribingnetwork.ca/icod2026
Want to present your med. appropriateness & deprescribing work to international peers and leaders in the field?
Submit your scientific abstracts, workshops, panels, and seminars before Oct 15: www.deprescribingnetwork.ca/icod2026
A few weeks ago, Kate Walsh, pharmacist with GeriMedRisk, presented med. safety & deprescribing to the Tamil community at the Kababayan Multicultural Centre, with live Tamil translation by Sri Ranjani!
Interested in presenting to your community? Let us know here: tinyurl.com/yc7ekp9j
Interested in presenting to your community? Let us know here: tinyurl.com/yc7ekp9j
August 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A few weeks ago, Kate Walsh, pharmacist with GeriMedRisk, presented med. safety & deprescribing to the Tamil community at the Kababayan Multicultural Centre, with live Tamil translation by Sri Ranjani!
Interested in presenting to your community? Let us know here: tinyurl.com/yc7ekp9j
Interested in presenting to your community? Let us know here: tinyurl.com/yc7ekp9j
🌎 Findings from the 2024 Commonwealth Funds Survey:
76% of older adults in Canada had their meds reviewed that year, and >90% felt comfortable asking about their meds.
However, 89% felt not at all or not too concerned about being RXed more meds than necessary.
www.cihi.ca/en/commonwea...
76% of older adults in Canada had their meds reviewed that year, and >90% felt comfortable asking about their meds.
However, 89% felt not at all or not too concerned about being RXed more meds than necessary.
www.cihi.ca/en/commonwea...
August 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
🌎 Findings from the 2024 Commonwealth Funds Survey:
76% of older adults in Canada had their meds reviewed that year, and >90% felt comfortable asking about their meds.
However, 89% felt not at all or not too concerned about being RXed more meds than necessary.
www.cihi.ca/en/commonwea...
76% of older adults in Canada had their meds reviewed that year, and >90% felt comfortable asking about their meds.
However, 89% felt not at all or not too concerned about being RXed more meds than necessary.
www.cihi.ca/en/commonwea...