The 2006 BFA Graduating Class Department of Visual Arts

Incredible as it may seem to those of us who were here when the Division of Fine Arts opened in the fall of 1988, with this exhibit we are celebrating our 15th graduating class from the BFA Program in Visual Arts. Simple arithmetic suggests that since 1992 literally hundreds of wonderfully trained and educated painters, printmakers, photographers, sculptors and multi-media artists have left the school to pursue their careers across the province, across Canada, and around the world. The significance of the effect these graduates are having on the cultural life of Newfoundland an Labrador cannot be overestimated. The variety and range of talent you see in the work of this year's graduates is a perfect example of the quality of imagination and craft that our students are contributing to the artistic community in this province, and in doing so they enrich all of our lives

Interventions that have potential to help older adults living with social frailty: a systematic scoping review

Abstract Background The impact of social frailty on older adults is profound including mortality risk, functional decline, falls, and disability. However, effective strategies that respond to the needs of socially frail older adults are lacking and few studies have unpacked how social determinants operate or how interventions can be adapted during periods requiring social distancing and isolation such as the COVID-19 pandemic. To address these gaps, we conducted a scoping review using JBI methodology to identify interventions that have the best potential to help socially frail older adults (age ≥65 years). Methods We searched MEDLINE, CINAHL (EPSCO), EMBASE and COVID-19 databases and the grey literature. Eligibility criteria were developed using the PICOS framework. Our results were summarized descriptively according to study, patient, intervention and outcome characteristics. Data synthesis involved charting and categorizing identified interventions using a social frailty framework.  Results Of 263 included studies, we identified 495 interventions involving ~124,498 older adults who were mostly female. The largest proportion of older adults (40.5%) had a mean age range of 70-79 years. The 495 interventions were spread across four social frailty domains: social resource (40%), self-management (32%), social behavioural activity (28%), and general resource (0.4%). Of these, 189 interventions were effective for improving loneliness, social and health and wellbeing outcomes across psychological self-management, self-management education, leisure activity, physical activity, Information Communication Technology and socially assistive robot interventions. Sixty-three interventions were identified as feasible to be adapted during infectious disease outbreaks (e.g., COVID-19, flu) to help socially frail older adults. Conclusions Our scoping review identified promising interventions with the best potential to help older adults living with social frailty