Community and Residential Care

Projects in progress

• 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

Completed projects

• The Carer Support Needs Assessment (CSNAT) Intervention: Supporting Family Caregivers of Palliative Patients at Home — Kelli Stajduhar, PhD, MSN, BN, RN
• Feasibility of a volunteer/health care provider navigation partnership to support frail rural-dwelling older adults — Barbara Pesut, PhD, RN
• The eDosette Study: Optimizing medication use and safety in community dwelling seniors — Henry Siu, MD, MSc, CCFP
• A frailty measure for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities using aging care — Hélène Ouellette-Kuntz, PhD
• Antidepressant guidelines for long-term care residents with advanced frailty — Laurie Mallery, MD
• Interventions to prevent and treat frailty in community-dwelling older adults: a scoping review of the literature and international policies — Martine Puts, PhD, RN
• Modeling changes in assessments to predict needs and guide care planning in home care — Debra Sheets, PhD, MSN, RN, FAAN
• The Jintronix technology to prevent functional decline in pre-frail/frail seniors consulting Emergency Departments — Marie-Josée Sirois, OT, PhD
• Implementing the ‘Frailty Portal’ in Community Primary Care Practice: Evaluating feasibility, effects and expansion needs — Paige Moorhouse, MD, MPH, FRCPC
• The eDosette study: Optimizing medication use and safety in community dwelling seniors — David Chan, MD, CCFP, MSc, FCFP
• FRAMING-LTC: Frailty and Recognizing Appropriate Medications IN Geriatrics and Long-Term Care — Andrew Morris, MD, SM, FRCP(C)
• User Studies with Intelligent Assistive Robots and Elder Residents Living in Long-Term Care Homes — Goldie Nejat, PhD
• Improving Outcomes for Frail Seniors: Impact of ASILA Program for Long-Term Staff — Veronique Boscart, PhD, MEd, MScN, RN
• New technologies to optimize assessment of mobility, activity, and health in the frail elderly — William McIlroy, PhD
• Integrated eTechnology: Seniors Care for the 21st Century — Esther Suter, PhD, MSW
• Supporting Family Caregivers of Frail Older Persons Living in Long Term Care — Wendy Duggleby, PhD, RN, AOCN
• An ounce of prevention: intensive resistance training to optimize health in pre-frail older adults — Ada Tang, PT, PhD, MSc
• Anticipatory Long-term care Electronic Resident Triage Tool (ALERT) for Canadian Long-Term Care Homes — Michelle Grinman, MD, FRCPC, MPH
• TELEPROM-G: A Study Evaluating Access and Care Delivery of Telehealth Services Among Community-Based Seniors — Cheryl Forchuk, PhD, RN
• Incorporating a frailty dimension into LOCUS for seniors in a medical-psychiatry population — Rose Geist, MD, FRCPC
• An innovation for relocating a toilet to ease access for the frail elderly at home — Tilak Dutta, PhD, PEng
• Wearable Caregiver Posture Coaching Feedback System — Tilak Dutta, PhD, PEng
• Using mobile health applications (mHealth) to support communication with frail elderly people in long-term care — Jeff Small, PhD
• Post-discharge rehabilitation interventions for older adults with cognitive impairment following a hip fracture — Katherine McGilton, PhD, RN
• Communication Technologies for Engaging Patients, Families and Caregivers in the Health Care System: A Scoping Review — Lynn McDonald, BA, MSW, PhD
• Rehabilitation for the seriously ill elderly: models of care and quality indicators — Lora Giangregorio, PhD