CFN Investigators Sharon Kaasalainen and Tamara Sussman receive $950,000 in CIHR follow-on funding
CFN Principal Investigators Sharon Kaasalainen and Tamara Sussman and their team which includes Abigail Wickson-Griffiths, IFP 2013, have received $948,600 in CIHR Project Grant money to further fund their CFN research into the palliative care approach in long-term care, Implementing, Evaluating and Scaling Up the Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long Term Care (SPA-LTC) Program in Canada.
Kaasalainen says the CFN funded project “showed that ‘with the implementation of this program, we can improve advance care planning uptake and end-of-life communication for those in long-term care and their families, decrease hospital transfers at the end of life, and increase satisfaction of care for all stakeholders.’ There was a 55% reduction in the number of emergency department visits in the last year of life for residents who participated in the study.”
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