Changing the Journey of Aging Worldwide

Over 100+ years, Baycrest has become a recognized leader in seniors health and residential care, geriatrics training, and aging brain research. Its unique continuum includes wellness programs, memory care, seniors housing, specialized outpatient clinics, long-term care, assisted living, and a specialized geriatric rehabilitation hospital. Baycrest’s focus on the care of older persons at risk for, and living with dementia is informed by its leading neuroscience research and the most advanced technology pipeline in the senior care industry. Baycrest Global Solutions (BGS) provides international clients with best-in-class seniors care, rigorous standard operating procedures, innovative facilities development guidance, and exemplary operations management.

About Us

Bringing Over a Century of Baycrest Experience to the World

Founded in 1918, Baycrest is considered one of the world’s top academic health sciences centers in aging and brain health. Baycrest has developed world class expertise across the continuum of senior living, geriatric healthcare, research, innovation and education. Its vision is to create a world where every older adult enjoys a life of purpose, inspiration and fulfilment.

Through its strategic partnership with Baycrest, Baycrest Global Solutions’ (BGS) mandate is to support this vision through collaborations with senior care providers to improve the quality of senior care globally. Our approach is to develop long-term, collaborative relationships with local partners who share our vision and passion for transforming services for seniors.

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We work closely with our clients to customize leading practices and create solutions that meet the needs of the local population. We believe that effective ‘cultural translation’ is the cornerstone of how we approach our business and a critical success factor for all our projects.

BGS is helping global healthcare providers improve the quality of geriatrics care by providing innovative services, training and technologies that:

Improve the delivery of senior residential and healthcare.
Improve and manage age-related cognitive and physical decline.
Improve safety and wellness outcomes for clients in late life.
Enhance quality of life for our senior population.

Foster greater autonomy for seniors.

Baycrest’s experience in quality senior care is brought to new markets around the world through Baycrest Global Solutions.

Baycrest Global Solutions
International advisory and consultancy to advance of senior care practice and standards

These core mandates drive our global mission:

Partnership

Advise international governments on senior care policies.

Consulting

Shape the development of senior care.

Development

Build international self-sustaining programs.

Capacity Building

Provide education and training programs.

Advisory Services

BGS leverages Baycrest subject matter expertise to provide a comprehensive suite of integrated advisory services that deliver world class solutions customized to the unique cultural needs of our clients.

We offer advisory services to support our clients through the entire continuum of business development in the following areas:

A highly-focused evaluation of current practices to identify opportunities for enhancement of services that is in line with international best practices.  A detailed report is provided, outlining key findings with associated recommendations to address identified gaps and meet future goals.  Outcomes of an environmental scan/needs assessment can include:

  • Strategy: Identification and development of strategic plans, models and concepts geared to supporting the development of geriatric care models;
  • Planning and Execution: Provision of long-term perspective that considers emerging trends in senior health care delivery, education, and changing technology from a global perspective, while recognizing shifting local/regional demographics and needs;
  • Leadership and People: Identification of leadership development and education gaps and requirements to meet current and future needs; and
  • Innovation: Facilitation of new insights into thinking and applying clinical research and care practices

BGS collaborates with world-class architects to inform on physical and operational considerations and requirements that then support the development of exceptional design concepts to create best-in-class infrastructure for seniors.  We can provide support through each of the phases of schematic design, design development, construction documents and construction.  We also provide recommendations for the selection of equipment and integration of technology.

Whether as part of our pre-opening technical advisory services, or supporting the enhancement of existing programming, BGS can provide planning support for seniors’ residential, community healthcare and wellness services, and post-acute geriatric care.  We take a holistic approach to service planning, ensuring all aspect of the operations provide an integrated and effective model of care that incorporates industry leading best practices.

An essential component associated with achieving and maintaining international accreditation is the institution of a culture of continuous quality improvement.  Such a culture emphasizes ongoing assessment, measurement and management of people, processes, and outcomes critical to ensuring safe and effective patient care and service delivery.

BGS can provide advisory services in this area could include:

  • International Accreditation preparation support;
  • Policies, procedures and clinical pathways/protocol development and implementation;
  • Quality Improvement and Patient/Staff Safety tools, reporting and program infrastructure;
  • Implementation of global best practices and integrated approaches to simultaneously improve care, improve population health, and reduce costs per capita;
  • Process design re-engineering and lean management systems addressing cost, quality and value;
  • Development of meaningful, internationally benchmarked performance indicators and quality improvement tools;
  • Continuous quality improvement and risk management including relevant tools, approaches, incident review and monitoring, and infrastructure support; and/or
  • Evaluation of impact of quality improvement initiatives on patient outcomes

Operations and Management Services

Improving the Quality of Care for Seniors Around the Globe

The world’s elderly population continues to grow, creating a rising demand for senior residential and healthcare services for individuals 60 years or older.

Baycrest Global Solutions works with investors and corporations worldwide to support the operations and management of senior living and care communities.  This may through the re-purposing of an existing facility, which is seeking to address historical operational issues that had impacted upon effective service delivery.

Baycrest Global Solutions can also undertake an operations and management model with investor owners who wish to engage it in the entire pre- and post-opening process.  This will be undertaken through the application of end-to-end advisory and operational services designed to maximize service delivery and maximize the living/care experience for seniors.

Innovative Solutions

Baycrest Global Solutions integrates academic and clinical expertise in geriatrics and gerontology with business strategy and design expertise, providing innovative solutions for existing and future care facilities.

Operations and Management Services

Design, development and management of:

  • Nursing homes
  • Assisted living residential care facilities
  • Independent senior residential care facilities
  • Memory care facilities
  • Geriatric Clinical Services

Specialized programming:

Memory care programs to assess and treat individuals suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of progressive and vascular dementia

Customization and implementation of “next-generation” programs:

  • Dementia care
  • Individualized programming
  • Behavioural support
  • Mental health support

Education & Training

Unparalleled in Geriatrics Education

Education & Training in Geriatrics

As the world’s elderly population grows, there is a looming shortage of specialized knowledge workers equipped to provide comprehensive seniors care.

Baycrest Global Solutions brings the best of Baycrest’s clinical and academic expertise to its education consulting services.

Learn more about Baycrest’s excellence in geriatrics education:

Baycrest is an academic health sciences centre fully affiliated with the University of Toronto.

We share our learnings through comprehensive education and training to senior care providers and healthcare students & professionals across the globe.

Role Playing

Online Learning

Volunteer Training

Virtual Reality

Gaming Apps

Onsite Clinical Teaching

Education and training for:

  • Nurses and physicians
  • Patients, families and caregivers
  • Allied healthcare professionals
  • Students
  • Executives

Solutions for:

  • Healthy aging
  • Chronic disease management
  • Caregiver support

Geriatrics education and training in:

  • Dementia
  • Mental health
  • Aphasia
  • Clinical ethics
  • Post-stroke management

Baycrest is a global destination for inter-professional education in geriatrics and aging, providing top-tier clinical training to allied healthcare professionals for best practices in seniors care.

BGS will work with the Baycrest Centre for Education to develop observership training programs for physicians and nurses, as well as allied health professionals and executive leadership if required.  These will be customized to the unique need of both the client institution as well as the qualifications of the individuals receiving the training.  Time frame for observership programs at Baycrest will range from one week (most likely for physicians) to several months (most likely for nursing).

BGS recognizes that the cost of sending multiple persons to Baycrest, and for prolonged periods of time, can become prohibitively expensive for possible partners who will be seeking to maximize their training investment.  Accordingly, as an extension of the training at Baycrest described above, BGS will also look to develop a train-the-trainer program for select international parties.

Through such a program, individuals identified as having good educational delivery skills will be sent to Baycrest for personal training in their selected area of specialty.  While at Baycrest, the Centre for Education will also work with those individuals to develop a training curriculum that will then be delivered to a broader audience upon their return to their home country.  Initial delivery of these programs in the home country may be supported by the presence of a Baycrest educational specialist, who will act as a mentor/instructor for a pre-determined period of time.

Continuing the idea of taking Baycrest training directly to the recipients, BGS will work to support the delivery of training programs to interested parties in their home countries.  Unlike the train-the-trainer mentor approach described above, this may or may not arise as the result of an ongoing engagement with a client, and may reflect more of a one-off need for highly specialized training to address specific care needs.  As with all training, Baycrest will develop such in Toronto, and then ensure cultural adaption to ensure such training is both relevant and sustainable in the foreign environment in which it will be applied.

Projects & Engagements

Magnolia Quality Development Corp.
The Aspen Tree

LOCATION
Bangkok, Thailand

FOCUS
Advisory, Management and Operations, Training

Baycrest is supporting the development of senior living programs for geriatric health and dementia care, active living and high-care communities in Bangkok and across Thailand.

Community Geriatric Services in China

In 2017, Baycrest Global Solutions collaborated with a developer to undertake a needs assessment to build a strategy and plan for the creation of community geriatric services in a naturally occurring retirement community (NORC) in southern China. The BGS team worked with local partners to understand the market size, needs and community preferences using a variety of assessment tools including seniors’ focus groups. Baycrest Global Solutions then worked closely with an internationally recognized architectural firm to update an existing facility to enable the provision of recreation, wellness services, primary healthcare, outpatient rehabilitation and comprehensive geriatric assessment. The provision of these assessment and advisory services resulted in the delivery of an operations manual which provided the client with a clear execution roadmap.

Peking Union Medical College

 

LOCATION
Toronto, Canada

COMMENCEMENT
2012 – Ongoing

FOCUS
Student Education

We provide PUMC’s medical and nursing students with annual observership training to learn about core principles in:

  • Geriatric Medicine
  • Late-Life Psychiatry
  • Neurology
  • Dementia Care
  • Family Medicine
  • Team-based, Interdisciplinary Care
  • Holistic view of geriatric health and wellness
  • Working with families

State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA)

 

LOCATION
Beijing, China

COMMENCEMENT
2017

FOCUS
Government Advisory

As a foreign expert in geriatric care at the 2017 SAFEA Symposium, Dr. Reichman shared Baycrest expertise in dementia care, senior care and living, and also advised in improving the senior care system in China.

Shandong Governor’s Office

 

LOCATION
Shandong, China

COMMENCEMENT
2014 – Ongoing

FOCUS
Government Advisory and Public Education

The Governor of Shandong Province, Guo Shuqing, along with a group of government delegates visited Baycrest to learn about Canada’s approach to senior care.

We are exploring collaborations to help improve senior care in the province, with Baycrest taking a leadership role in the provision of memory care, skilled nursing, and education and training for the professional workforce.

Shanghai Health Authority

 

LOCATION
Shanghai, China

COMMENCEMENT
2013 – Ongoing

FOCUS
Government Advisory

BGS has held numerous meetings in both China and Canada. We are engaged in ongoing discussions to explore collaborations around geriatric care, training, education, and research to enhance the city’s health system.

Contact Us

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For more information please contact:

Baycrest Global Solutions
3560 Bathurst Street
Toronto, Ontario Canada
M6A 2E1

Phone: +1.416.785.2500 x 2388