Look at our projects in progress

• Use of an automated prospective clinical surveillance tool to drive screening for unmet palliative needs among patients in the final year of life. — James Downar, MDCM, MHSc, FRCPC
• The Breaking “Bad Rest” Study: Interrupting sedentary time to reverse frailty levels in acute care — Olga Theou, PhD
• Outcome Priorities in Intensive Care Studies (OPTICS) — John Muscedere, MD, FRCPC
• Establishing Shared Decision Making Among Vulnerable Patients Referred for Cardiac Surgery, a Maritime-Wide Initiative. — Greg Hirsch, MD & Ansar Hassan, MD
• Promoting movement in older adults in the community (PROMO). — Barbara Liu, MD, FRCPC
• Better tArgetting, Better outcomes for frail ELderly patients (BABEL) — Paul Hébert, MD
• The impact of prolonged bed rest and exercise on frailty and frailty-related biological markers — Olga Theou, PhD
• Addressing Frailty with Community-Directed Physical Activity Programs in Manitoban First Nations Communities — Cara Brown, PhD, MSc, BMR(OT)
• CP@clinic: A Community Paramedicine Program for Indigenous older adults — Gina Agarwal, PhD, MBBS MRCGP CCFP FCFP
• Improving Emergency Care of Indigenous Elders Living with Frailty in Interior Health — Elizabeth Hartney, BSc, MSc, PhD & Denise Taylor, PT
• Using ‘big data’ to predict COVID-19 infection and seriousness in the population — Douglas Lee, MD, FRCPC, PhD
• Understanding the how frailty and physical function are related to swallowing impairments in older adults — Ashwini Namasivayam-MacDonald, PhD, MHSc
• Hospital Discharge Follow-up Care of ICU Patients with Preadmission Frailty — Carmel Montgomery, PhD, MN, BSN, RN
• Integrating Biomechanical Technologies with Orthopaedic Clinics to Improve Surgical Outcomes for Knee Osteoarthritis — Dylan Kobsar, PhD
• Journey mapping patient-reported data for older adult patients with cancer — Jae-Yung Kwon, PhD, RN
• Understanding the intersection of frailty, sepsis, and cancer: Rehabilitation to improve survivor outcomes — Jenna Smith-Turchyn, PhD, PT
• Empowering Ontario’s long-term care residents to shape the place they call home — Jennifer Bethell, PhD
• Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in Primary Care for Older Adults Living with Frailty — Olga Theou, PhD
• Advancing the Care Experience in PAlliative care patient Transitions from subacute to Home – Bruyere (ACEPATH-Bruyere): Co-designing an intervention to improve patient and family caregiver experiences — Sarina Isenberg, PhD
• Helping to create an age-friendly environment in the city of Trois-Rivières — Anik Giguere, PhD
• Pacific Regional Centre for Healthy Aging — Grace Park, MD
• Healthy Aging in Northern Alberta — Tammy O’Rourke, PhD, NP