The Canadian Institutes of Health Research — Institute of Aging (CIHR-IA) is partnering with the Canadian Space Agency and the Quebec Research Network on Aging to provide a total of $925K for research projects that use baseline data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA).
Canadian Frailty Network is pleased to partner with the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation (SHRF) to co-fund a Collaborative Innovation Development (CID) grant focused on studying innovative ways to imporove care for older adults living with frailty.
Frail older adults residing in 24 hour care facilities have complex health needs. Family caregivers continue to provide care and support for their relatives/friends in care facilities. Unfortunately when their relative is admitted to a care facility, they experience major changes in their lives such as changes in their roles/relationships resulting in poor physical and…
John Hirdes and Sandy van Solm In emergencies, the elderly die. Here’s how we can start to change that. With the Vulnerable Persons at Risk (VPR) algorithm, seniors don’t have to be helpless in the face of disaster. “Older adults living in their own homes are more likely to be harmed in a disaster because…
The medicalization of caregiving. Nearly all caregivers are willing to do as much as they can, but is the health care system unduly burdening family and friends? When does insisting that caregiving tasks expand to include medical procedures normally done by a professional become too much? In order to follow the home first philosophy, which…
CFN Network Investigator Veronique Boscart was honoured at the biennial conference of the Canadian Nurses Association in Ottawa on June 18, 2018, where she received the Order of Merit for Nursing Research. Veronique’s research interests are focused on establishing best practices in gerontology, building gerontological educational programs for health-care professionals, and creating care delivery models…
CFN’s Training Program offers undergraduate students an interdisciplinary, experiential program in partnership with member institutions and partners across the country through its Summer Student Awards. This year, 13 students were funded in our sixth annual cohort representing seven disciplines at nine Host Institutions in five provinces. In New Brunswick, co-funding was provided by the New…
Seniors Strategy must address issues of aging. Canadians 65 years and older now outnumber children 14 years and under, which means our needs as a society are changing. We are succeeding in shifting the aging curve through preventive interventions and better public health — that’s good news. But the changing demographic is causing strains in…
2018 Understanding the Health Impact of Inactivity Funding Opportunity Canadian Frailty Network, in partnership with the CIHR Institutes of Aging (IA), Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH), Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (IMHA), and the Canadian Space Agency is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new funding opportunity. For more details, click here. The 2018…
Barbara Pesut, professor of nursing in the Faculty of Health and Social Development is part of a research team at UBC’s Okanagan campus focused on improving palliative care. Working with patients and families in rural communities to better understand their experiences and needs, her work is helping to build rural capacity for end-of-life care by…