Look at our projects in progress
End-of-Life Care (EOL)/Advance Care Planning (ACP)
- Improving advance care planning for frail elderly Canadians — John You, MD, MSc, FRCPC
- Improving Supportive End-of-Life Care in Long-Term Care: Exploring the Changing Role of Family Physicians in Care Teams — Jayna Holroyd-Leduc, BSc, MD, FRCPC
- “C5-75”: A primary care program to identify and support older adults living with frailty — Linda Lee, MD, MCISc(FM), CCFP, FCFP
- A suite of tools to support decision-making with older hospitalized patients who are frail and seriously ill — John You, MD, MSc, FRCPC
- Using an automated mortality prediction tool to focus advance care planning efforts for older inpatients who are frail — James Downar, MDCM, MHSc, FRCPC
Acute/Critical Care
- PROSPECT: Probiotics to Prevent Severe Pneumonia and Endotracheal Colonization Trial — Deborah Cook, MD, MSc (Epid), FRCPC, DABIM, CCM, CAHS, FRS
- Elder-friendly Approaches to the Surgical Environment-using Biological samples to Identify & provide Optimized care (EASE-BIO) — Rachel Khadaroo, MD, PhD, FRCSC
- Determining the Optimal Duration of Antibiotic Treatment for Older Adults Living with Frailty with Bloodstream Infection — Nick Daneman, MD, FRCPC, MSc
- Pharmacist led intervention to improve medication use in older in-patients living with frailty: The Drug Burden Index — Emily Reeve, BPharm (Hons.), PhD
- The EDGAR study (Elderly with epilepsy DruG AppRopriateness) — Mark Keezer, MDCM, PhD
- Family Identification of Delirium in Critically Ill Patients Living with Frailty — Kirsten Fiest, PhD
- Experience and compliance with exercise before cancer surgery for older adults living with frailty — Daniel McIsaac, MD, MPH, FRCPC
- The Breaking “Bad Rest” Study: Interrupting sedentary time to reverse frailty levels in acute care — Olga Theou, PhD
- More-2-Eat Phase 2: spread and scaling up of improved nutrition care processes to detect and treat malnutrition in hospital — Heather Keller, PhD, RD, FDC
- Outcome Priorities in Intensive Care Studies (OPTICS) — John Muscedere, MD, FRCPC
Community and Residential Care
- Support, Education, Networking & Sustained Engagement (SENSE): Knowledge-to-Action with Families of the Frail Elderly Living in Residential Long-term Care — Jennifer Baumbusch, RN, PhD, MSN, BSN
- The Carer Support Needs Assessment (CSNAT) Intervention: Supporting Family Caregivers of Palliative Patients at Home — Kelli Stajduhar, PhD, MSN, BN, RN
- A Collaborative Intervention for Streamlining Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing within Integrated Health-Care Teams — Melissa Andrew, BSc, MSc, MD
- Team Approach to Polypharmacy Reduction in Long-Term Care (TAPERLTC). RCT feasibility study: integrating families’ experiences — Dee Mangin, MBChb, DPH, FRNZCGP
- Assessing and understanding frailty and high-risk non-prescription drug use in community pharmacy practice — Colleen Maxwell, BSc, MA, PhD
- Improving medication use in residential care: insights of frailty and brain vital signs — Xiaowei Song, PhD, MSCS
- Benefit of a Telehealth home-monitoring program for patients living with frailty undergoing heart surgery — Jean-François Légaré, MD
- Stand if You Can —Danielle Bouchard, PhD, MSc
- Supporting quality of life assessments of frail older adults and their family caregivers — Richard Sawatzky, PhD, MSc, BSc, RN
- Promoting intersectoral collaboration to support frail older adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the community — Lynn Martin, PhD
- Social Frailty in Recently Relocated Semi-Independent Older Adults (CAT 2018-42) — Suzanne Dupuis-Blanchard, PhD
Transitions of Care
- Better tArgetting, Better outcomes for frail ELderly patients (BABEL) — Paul Hébert, MD
- Transforming primary health care for frail elderly Canadians — Paul Stolee, PhD
- Frailty predicts early death or functional decline after dialysis in patients with Chronic Kidney Disease — Navdeep Tangri, PhD
- Optimizing transitions from hospital to home for frail older adults: a mixed method study to examine how hospital discharge plans translate into supportive home care environments — Rose McCloskey, RN, PhD, GNC (C)
- Improving ICU-to-Ward Transfers of Care: Evaluation of a KT Tool Kit and ICU Transfer Tool — Tom Stelfox, BMSc, MD, PhD