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
• Rurality and frailty: What are the impacts, benefits and outcomes of paramedic palliative support at home? — Alix Carter, MD, MPH, FRCPC
• 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

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
• Establishing Shared Decision Making Among Vulnerable Patients Referred for Cardiac Surgery, a Maritime-Wide Initiative. — Greg Hirsch, MD & Ansar Hassan, MD

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
• 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 — Suzanne Dupuis-Blanchard, PhD
• Promoting movement in older adults in the community (PROMO). — Barbara Liu, MD, FRCPC

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
• An innovative decision tool to optimize hospital discharge in frail older patients living at risk. — Véronique Provencher, PhD