The GSA 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting—taking place November 13-17, 2019, in Austin, Texas—will bring together thousands of thought leaders, industry pioneers, scientists, researchers, and innovators from multiple disciplines in the field of aging. The call for abstracts for the GSA 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting opens tomorrow, February 1, 2019, and closes March 14, 2019.

We are seeking dynamic and knowledgeable presenters for the GSA 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting who are addressing the…

Summer Institute 2019

Impact & Opportunities
May 13-15, 2019 | Edmonton, Alberta

Welcome to the AbSPORU Summer Institute 2019 Impact & Opportunities conference information and registration website.

Join us for Summer Institute 2019 where researchers, patients, clinicians, students, policy makers and more, gather to share insights, connect with colleagues and promote patient-oriented research.

We’re working together to explore, evaluate and share the Impact & Opportunities of…

We are introducing two new requirements for all submissions to Implementation Science, which take effect February 1, 2019.

'Contributions to the literature' - a new article section

Beginning February 1, 2019, we will require all manuscripts submitted to Implementation Science include a bulleted statement describing what the paper, if published, would add to the literature in implementation science.

The statement should consist of three to five bullet points of no more than 100 words. Authors…

INVITATION to a Stakeholder Briefing Session on: 

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…

The CIHR Institute of Aging will provide funding for applications that are determined to be relevant to the following research priority areas described below:

• The life trajectory as a determinant of active, and satisfying aging;

• Adding life to the late years;

• Interventions appropriate to the complexity of older people’s state of health; and

• 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…

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…

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…

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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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