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.

March 9, 12PM - 1PM, Edmonton Clinic Health Academy 5-001

Pragmatism in clinical trials: Exploring the challenges and opportunities with pragmatic clinical trials

by Dr Lawrence Richer, MD
    Director, Northern Alberta Clinical Trials and Research Centre
    Associate Dean, Clinical and Translational Research
    Associate Director, Women and Children's Health Research Institute
    Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology, University of Alberta
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Diffusion Of Innovations Theory, Principles, And Practice

by James W. Dearing and Jeffery G. Cox

Abstract

Aspects of the research and practice paradigm known as the diffusion of innovations are applicable to the complex context of health care, for both explanatory and interventionist purposes. This article answers the question, “What is diffusion?” by identifying the parameters of diffusion processes: what they are, how they operate, and why worthy innovations in health care do not spread…

Congratulations to Dr Carole Estabrooks for being selected as an inductee into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. She is being recognized for her lifetime achievements in and contributions to research and for mentoring future nurse researchers. She will be honoured at Sigma Theta Tau International’s International Nursing Research Congress this summer in Melbourne, Australia. 

Read: Sigma announces 2018 International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame inductees

TREC recently published a study led by TREC Trainee Stephanie Chamberlain in the International Journal of Nursing Studies. In this study, we explored how factors, like the work environment, influence burnout in care aides working in nursing homes (long-term care homes) in Western Canada.

Burnout is a psychological condition that results from work-related stress. We measured burnout using what is known as the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), a well-known measure, which considers three…

The overall goal of SALTY stream 1 is to develop an approach that enables researchers, policy makers and care facilities to validly and reliably measure quality of end of life care in nursing homes on an ongoing basis.

In the TREC Trajectories work, we have identified lists of 21 burdensome symptoms and 11 potentially inappropriate care practices at the end of life in nursing homes that we can measure using RAI-MDS 2.0 items. Currently, we are working with key knowledge users…