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…

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,…

by Russell Mannion and Judith Smith

Contemporary health policies frequently invoke notions of ‘culture’ and ‘cultural change’ as levers for achieving performance improvement and good-quality healthcare.1 But it has remained unclear whether talk of culture is largely empty rhetoric or whether framing healthcare organisations in ‘cultural’ terms offers useful insights that might improve organisational processes and outcomes of care. When considering the role of organisational culture in…

Executive Summary

Dementia is a devastating, costly chronic disease that has become a health priority worldwide. As of 2016, just over 42,000 Albertans have been diagnosed and are living with dementia. If nothing changes, this number is expected to increase to more than 155,000 within 30 years (source: the Population Estimates of Dementia in Alberta Working Group).

Dementia affects far more Albertans than those living with the disease. It impacts us in our homes, communities, care…

Strategies to Scale Up Social Programs

In successfully scaling up social programs through partnerships, 45 diverse nonprofits faced three key choices: their partner, their approach to spreading their work, and their call on the balance between fidelity and flexibility at the expansion sites.

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September, 2017, 94 pages

Author(s)

R. Sam Larson, James W. Dearing and Thomas E. Backer

Publishing Organization

Diffusion Associates

While nonprofits see growing interest among…

Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Webinar

Date: Tuesday, September 26, 2016

Time: 12 p.m.(ET)

Title: The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging: A National Platform and Infrastructure for Researchers and Trainees. This webinar, jointly organized with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), will provide an overview of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) for researchers and trainees. With an introduction by Yves Joanette, scientific director of the CIHR…

Provincial Conference: Innovative Primary Care Models for Seniors’ Health

Be one of the 150 primary health care practitioners (physicians, nurses, allied health professionals), researchers, and representatives from community partner organization at this Provincial conference. Heighten your awareness of frailty, its impact on the health care system, and the essential role of primary care. Learn about current innovative models of seniors’ care and take home strategies to improve…