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Improving the Quality of Life and Care of Persons Living with Dementia and their Caregivers: CAHS National Dementia Care Assessment
The Canadian Academy Health Sciences (CAHS) is hosting an online stakeholder briefing to present findings of its National Dementia Care Assessment -Improving the Quality of Life and Care of Persons Living with Dementia and their Caregivers.
Date: Monday, January 14, 2019
Venue: Zoom
- To connect by computer:https://zoo…
Deadline: January 24, 2019
The CIHR Institute of Aging will provide funding for applications that are determined to be relevant to the following research priority areas described below:
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The life trajectory as a determinant of active, and satisfying aging;
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Adding life to the late years;
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Interventions appropriate to the complexity of older people’s state of health; and
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Health care and services that combine and integrate continuity, innovation and efficiency.
Funding Available
The maximum amount for…
The federal government is phasing out a 30-year-old funding program known for connecting teams of scientists across Canada and encouraging them to work together in key areas of biomedical and environmental research, The Globe and Mail has learned.
On Thursday, Science Minister Kirsty Duncan is expected to reveal that the government will eventually discontinue supporting the entities that are collectively known in Canada’s research landscape as Networks of Centres of Excellence. The category…
Mitacs: Opportunity for PhD Graduates and Faculty to Contribute to Science …
Deadline: February 3, 2019 at 11:59 pm PT
The Canadian Science Policy Fellowship is now accepting applications from prospective fellows interested in undertaking a 12-month policy position within a Canadian government host office.
Eligible applicants must be:
- Faculty members at Canadian universities or PhD graduates
- Canadian citizens or permanent residents (Citizenship requirements may differ for individual host offices; this will be accommodated in the fellow and host matching process)
- Able to negotiate a leave of absence from…
Fractured Care: A Window Into Emergency Transitions in Care for LTC Residen…
The final OPTIC descriptive paper is now in print read here
Abstract
Objective: For long-term care (LTC) residents, transfers to emergency departments (EDs) can be associated with poor health outcomes. We aimed to describe characteristics of residents transferred, factors related to decisions during transfer, care received in emergency medical services (EMS), ED settings, outcomes on return to LTC, and times of transfer segments along the transition.
Method: We prospectively followed 637…
Register by December 12 and Save!
https://www.eventscribe.com/2019/AMDA/index.asp?launcher=1
Registration is now open for AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (PALTC) Medicine’s 2019 Annual Conference, March 7-10 in Atlanta, GA.
The Society is excited to offer an International Nursing Home Research Symposium on Pragmatic Trials at the 2019 Annual Conference. You can submit a poster for both the conference and the special symposium.
General poster abstract: Deadline November 30, 2018
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Deadline: January 18th, 2019 at 11:59 pm EST
2019 CAHSPR Call for Abstracts
When Research Meets Policy
May 29th - 31st, 2019
The Halifax Convention Centre
Halifax, NS
The deadline to submit is on Friday, January 18th, 2019 at 11:59 pm EST
For any questions please contact Laura Brisson at Laura@f2fe.com
If you submitted an abstract for the 2018 conference, you do not need to create a profile. Simply sign in below using your existing credentials.
https://www.events.f2fe.com/cahspr/abstract/index.cfm?ID=5Pd7TsM
NOTE: T…
New Report on Frailty from the Canadian Frailty Network and National Instit…
Canadian Frailty Network recently commissioned a report from the National Institute on Ageing (NIA) exploring this issue. The NIA/CFN report We Can’t Address What We Don’t Measure Consistently: Building Consensus on Frailty in Canada, authored by Dr. Samir Sinha, Allan McKee, Ivy Wong, Julie Dunning, Michael Nicin, and Dr. John Muscedere, shows that frailty is a common condition more prevalent in older populations, which increases an individual’s risk of falls, emergency department visits,…
Deadline: October 26, 2018
Submit your CGNA2019 abstracts now!
The Alberta Gerontological Nursing Association and the Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association invite you to submit your abstracts to CGNA2019: Older Persons Climbing Mountains: Journeys and Transitions
Abstracts are due October 26, 2018!
Please note, abstracts will not be accepted by email. Please see below to download the official Call for Abstracts for information about the online submission system.
Submit your abstract!
To submit your abstract,…
The CIHR Spring 2019 Project Grant Deadlines are as follows:
Registration Deadline: February 6, 2019
Application Deadline: March 6, 2019
Please note that there is a new Grant Submission Procedure for submitting TREC grants that includes internal deadlines if you have someone from the University of Alberta (or if money is coming to the University of Alberta) on your grant:
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