A5005288242- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Disability Rights and Representation
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Elder Abuse and Neglect
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
- Healthcare Policy and Management
St. Francis Xavier University
2019-2024
University of Manitoba
2022-2023
University of Ottawa
2022-2023
University of Guelph
2023
Toronto Metropolitan University
2023
Mount Saint Vincent University
2012-2020
Nova Scotia Health Authority
2018-2019
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
2016-2017
Abstract Many countries adopted comprehensive national initiatives to promote equity in higher education with the goal of transforming culture research. Major health research funders are supporting this work through calls for projects that focus on equity, resulting a proliferation theoretical frameworks including “intersectionality,” “health equity,” and variations diversity inclusion, or EDI. This commentary is geared at individual principal investigators teams who developing proposals...
Ageism is arguably one of the least challenged forms discrimination globally and manifests in many obvious subtle ways. Situating our conversation within context COVID-19, we discuss peculiar unchallenged ageism current times as well intersections with other such ableism, racism, sexism, heterosexism. We highlight limits understandings ageism, specifically those that seek to identify positive aspects without appreciating how these reinforce inequalities among older adults. With regards...
Background: The Canadian healthcare system tends to focus on older adults’ physical needs, which leads missed opportunities for integrated mental health support, care and treatment. Health social providers who work in community settings develop trusting therapeutic relationships with their clients, often home environments—providing many insights into personal circumstances. These are well-positioned talk about but these conversations avoided due lack of evidence-based resources training...
This article examines the governance of student life in university settings through an examination discourses wellness and resilience sector, particular at University Toronto. Resilience, it is argued, strategically deployed ways that enjoin students to think positively about their experiences so as avert any experience distress or disability. undertaken with aim producing a healthy ‘well’ body, but does little address inequalities amongst students, nor how such might be important addressing...
This paper examines the Mental Health Improvements for Nations Development of World Organization (WHO), or what it refers to as its MIND project, produces versions human and suffering. Arising at approximately same time decolonization began occur, WHO can be read reflective colonial history well a colonizing force in postcolonial times. Through an analysis WHO's publicly available material, we shall show how project is not only product of, but also helps produce power coloniality. In...
Learning health systems necessitate interdependence between and academic sectors are critical to address the present future needs of our systems. This concept is being supported through new Canadian Institutes Health Research (CIHR) System Impact (HSI) Fellowship, which postdoctoral fellows situated within a system-related organization help propel evidence-informed organizational transformation change. A voluntary working group from inaugural cohort representing diversity in geography, host...
Considering the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, scholars were encouraged to cease collocated meetings. Many researchers have turned remote collaboration continue group-based projects. This paper focuses on structure, processes, and outcomes that a group of physically distanced, embedded used collaborate across Canada produce research outputs prior pandemic. The intent this is provide an overview mechanisms can facilitate meaningful productive using online digital technologies...
This article explores whether isolation and control observed during COVID-19 are a pandemic effect or perpetual socio-spatial feature of long-term care (LTC) culture. We use narrative analysis to foreground the experiences two women with dementia trying leave LTC: one before other pandemic. Using lens affective citizenship, we argue that spatial confinement for people living in LTC routinely overlooked popular discourse. reflect upon how segregation older contributes discriminatory practices...
The Health System Impact (HSI) Fellowship, an innovative training program developed by the Canadian Institutes of Research's Institute Services and Policy Research, provides PhD-trained health researchers with embedded, experiential learning opportunity within a system organization.An electronic Delphi (eDelphi) study was conducted to: (1) identify criteria used to define success in (2) elucidate main contributions fellows made their organizations. Through iterative, two-round eDelphi...
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Introduction The mental health of ageing Canadians is a growing concern, particularly post-pandemic. Older adults face systemic ageism and stigma as pervasive barriers to seeking needed support, care treatment within social systems. These are exacerbated when service providers focus on physical healthcare needs or lack the skills confidence talk about and/or address during routine visits. This study aims co-design test an evidence-based approach conversations at point-of-care in home...
Maximizing quality of life (QoL) is a major goal care for people with dementia in nursing homes (NHs). Social determinants are critical residents' QoL. However, similar to the United States and other countries, most Canadian NHs routinely monitor publicly report care, but not resident QoL its social determinants. Therefore, we lack robust, quantitative studies evaluating association multiple intersecting NH The this study address knowledge gap.
Leadership in long-term care is a burgeoning field of research, particularly that which focused on enabling point staff to provide high-quality and responsive healthcare. In this article, we focus the relatively important role leadership plays conditions for care. Our methodological approach involved rapid in-depth ethnography undertaken by an interdisciplinary team across eight public non-profit homes Canada, where conducted over 1,000 hours observations 275 formal informal interviews with...
Direct Funding (DF) provides individuals with a budget to arrange their own home care instead of receiving publicly arranged services. DF programs have evolved in number countries since the 1970s. In Canada, while small-scale existed early 1970s, research on these remains limited. Responding gaps identified by an umbrella review and using health equity framework, this extends knowledge base from Canadian perspective through environmental scan. The asks: What are features across Canada?...
We draw on our research, lived experiences of disability and the grounded expertise disabled persons living in long-term care (LTC) homes as co-researchers, to illustrate value disability-led participatory research. Our approach a co-designed collaborative project young adults LTC highlights benefits research that centers realities people. Points interestResearch knowledge about people routinely excludes perspectives who live there; this is especially true for younger residents LTC.This...
Directly funded home care provides funds to individuals arrange their own services. We ask, what is unique about being a directly worker? Our qualitative case study in Manitoba, Canada, included an online survey of 95 workers and interviews with 13 key informants, 24 clients and/or family managers, 23 workers. Framed by feminist disability theories, we found ‘social task shifting’, that is: work keeps households running supports socialising; front-line worker involvement administration;...
In this paper we use co-constructed autoethnographic methods to explore the tensions that animate meaning of “disclosure” in university and college environments. Drawing insight from our embodied experiences as graduate students university/college course instructors, collaborative counter-narratives examine ordinary ways disclosure is made meaningful material a relationship form labour. Our dialogue illustrates layered nature disclosure—for example, self-disclosing disabled student order...