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We have submitted 3 grant applications to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. We should hear about each of them in mid July. Summaries for each are below.
Improving Nursing Home Care through Feedback On PerfoRMance Data (INFORM)
Carole Estabrooks, Principal Investigator
With our many successes in keeping seniors healthier and longer in the community, residents are now admitted to nursing homes later in their decline, having more complex needs and in a much greater state of…
Study of Health Care Aides show high job satisfaction but poor pay and burnout
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Health Care Aides are on the front lines of care in Canada today. But little is known about the estimated 250,000 aides themselves. Now, the first scientific study of its kind finds these workers have too little training, no regulation, and high levels of burnout. Marjan Lazarevski
Nursing home health-care aides need more training, suffer 'worrisome' burnout: study
Tom Blackwell | January 20, 2015 12:21 AM ET
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They occupy the front lines of Canada's crowded nursing homes, providing the bulk of care to increasingly challenging, dementia-suffering residents.
But the workers known as health-care aides have…
Congratulations to Stephanie Chamberlain for being awarded the 2014-2015 Gyro Club of Edmonton Graduate Scholarship (PhD level).
She will receive the award in a formal presentation at a small event on Thursday, January 28th, 12:30 p.m. in Room 3-30 Corbett Hall (Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine).
Who is Looking After Mom and Dad? Unregulated Workers in Canadian Long-Term Care Homes
Carole A. Estabrooks, Janet E. Squires, Heather L. Carleton, Greta G. Cummings and Peter G. Norton. (2015). Who is Looking After Mom and Dad? Unregulated Workers in Canadian Long-Term Care Homes. Canadian Journal on Aging, (32)1.
ABSTRACT
Older adults living in residential long-term care or nursing homes have increasingly complex needs, including more dementia than in the past, yet we know little about…
Starting Monday, Sept. 29, Global National will air a series of reports on living with dementia and how Canadians are adapting to a disease that affects so many - and at a much younger age than you may think.
Publication notice: Economic evaluation of complex health system interventions
This July, IHSPR and the Institute of Health Economics (IHE) jointly released a discussion paper on the Economic evaluation of complex health system interventions.
Husereau D, Jacobs P, Manns B, Hoomans T, Marshall D, Tamblyn R, on behalf of the IHE- IHSPR Complex Interventions Working Group. Economic evaluation of complex health system interventions: a discussion paper. Edmonton AB: Institute of Health Economics; 2014 July.
The discussion paper provides guidance to those undertaking…
TREC Researchers Carole Estabrooks and Greta Cummings make mark on global list of most cited researchers
Congratulations to Carole and Greta for making the top 1% of highly cited authors in the world!
"The list is made up of researchers who wrote the highest number of research papers ranking among the top one per cent of most-cited papers by category and year, as indexed by the Web of Science Core Collection between 2002 and 2012. About 3,200 researchers were included in the list."
Congratulations to Stephanie Chamberlain who has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarthip - Doctoral level at the University of Alberta!
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