At a Glance

The purpose of the Developing Quality Indicators for Older Persons’ Transitions in Care (OPTIC QI) study was to:

1. Examine the current state of quality indicator knowledge for care transitions for older persons through systematic literature review
2. Validate quality indicators for older persons’ care transitions
3. Evaluate feasibility of implementing quality indicators across care transitions
4. Translate findings into practice using an integrated knowledge translation approach

We…

Older Persons Climbing Mountains: Journeys & Transitions

The Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association and the Alberta Gerontological Nursing Association are excited to announce the Call for Abstracts for CGNA2019, the 20th Biennial Conference of the CGNA, taking place May 2-4, 2019 in beautiful Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

The CGNA biennial conference is the only event of its kind that focuses on all facets of education, practice and research in the care of older adults.

With an increasing…

Abstract

Kuluski et al.'s (2017) argument for including a more advanced form of health system performance management centred on "the experience of care," raises the major challenge of creating and sustaining engagement-capable environments. Here I briefly address frameworks that may be useful in meeting this challenge – Complex Adaptive Systems, Innovation Diffusion, Whole System Change. I also offer a personal perspective drawn from a successful citizen engagement experience, concluding…

Baby boom, dementia explosion

By: Carol Sanders 

An estimated 22,500 Manitobans have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or another type of dementia and that number is growing at an alarming rate, owing to the post-Second World War baby boom.

By 2038, the number is expected to be more than 40,000. And the growing number will be accompanied by soaring costs, says community…

We met with our investigators, decision makers, citizen advisory committee members, trainees, and staff in Edmonton on February 22 and 23. We discussed the future of TREC including the new and exciting directions we are taking. We also talked about more fruitful ways of engaging our decision makers from the long term care sector and our citizen advisory committee members.

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We are extremely excited to announce that our citizen engagement committee has secured funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Patient-Oriented Research Collaboration Grant. This grant (ranked #1!) enables us to move forward on areas of collaboration identified by the committee as high priority. Planned activities in this grant include team training on citizen engagement and a priority setting exercise with VOICES members and our decision maker stakeholders. The grant enables…

It is our distinct pleasure to pass on the news that Dr. Dorothy Pringle is the 2018 Distinguished Professor of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS), "...in recognition of her achievements and commitment to improving health that have been truly extraordinary."

Dr Dorothy Pringle is the Chair of TREC's International Scientific Advisory Committee.

On behalf of the International Population Data Linkage Network’s (IPDLN) International Scientific Committee, we invite you to participate in the 2018 IPDLN Conference on 12-14 September, 2018, at the Banff Centre, located in beautiful Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.

With our theme, Linking Data – Improving Lives, we have created a forum for the presentation and discussion of research and innovation in the area of Linked Population Data Science and Policy Impact.

We welcome the submissi…