Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network (CADeN)
June 18, 2025
Primarily funded by Canada’s Drug Agency, CADeN’s mission is to produce, share, and apply information to promote the safe and appropriate use of medications. The network aligns with the Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health (CCSMH) in its goal to enhance mental health care for older adults by ensuring medications are safe, effective, and used in ways that minimize the risk of adverse effects.
CADeN’s efforts focus on building partnerships, expanding public awareness, supporting professional education, fostering Indigenous-led initiatives, driving essential research, and helping scale up evidence-based tools and practices. The network offers evidence-based resources, articles, webinars, and other learning opportunities to support organizations in raising awareness of these safe medication use in Canada’s diverse populations.
Curious to know more about CADeN’s work? Take a look back at their activities in their latest Annual Report: “Driving Change Together: Advancing medication Appropriateness through Collaboration, Research and Impact”. Some key highlights include:
- Growth and deepening of partnerships with diverse community organizations, through sharing of resources – this includes promoting new articles on antidepressants and patient deprescribing testimonials
- Collaborating with multidisciplinary educators to integrate deprescribing competencies in health professions curricula, and launching a free new online education program on deprescribing for primary care clinicians
- Taking steps to decolonize the network through relationship-building with Indigenous communities, based on a 5-year network action plan
- Expansion of a national research network for safe and appropriate medication use, involving experts from all fields, including mental health
Check out the full report here. Aussi disponible en français.