Research Unit Affiliates
Dr. Christine Ceci
- Social organization of health work
- Social, political and cultural interests that organize home care for people who are older and frail
Dr. Alex Clark
- Cardiac care
- Self-management
- Secondary prevention of coronary heart disease
- Realist-driven evaluation of complex interventions
Dr. Greta Cummings
- Leadership science in health services
- Improving care during healthcare transitions
- Management policy and other aspects of healthcare delivery that influence organizational, health care provider and patient outcomes
Dr. Sherry Dahlke
- Nursing practice with hospitalized older adults
- Influencing positive outcomes for older adults with cognitive challenges
- Perspectives of older adults and their families on their healthcare experiences
Dr. Sandra Davidson
- Leadership for innovation in healthcare
- Evidence-based practice
- Relational healthcare
- Complexity science in human systems
Dr. Wendy Duggleby
- Quality of life for older adults and their families
- Hope studies of persons with advanced cancer and dementia, family caregivers and healthcare providers
- Transitions studies of family caregivers of persons with advanced cancer and dementia
Dr. Carole Estabrooks
- Knowledge translation
- Improving safety and quality of care in nursing homes
- Effects of organizational context on knowledge translation and on resident, provider and system outcomes in residential long-term care
Dr. Dorothy Forbes
- Supporting persons with dementia and their care partners in rural and urban Canada
- Cochrane Reviews on interventions that manage the symptoms of dementia
- Influence of gender on social support in home care
Dr. Kim Fraser
- Home care
- Case management
- Knowledge translation for improved decision-making
- Resource allocation
- Decision making
Dr. Kathleen Hunter
- Lower urinary track symptoms/bladder dysfunction in older adults
- Falls
- Hospitalization/acute care of older adults
- Community-hospital transitions and the effects on geriatric syndromes
Dr. Gail Low
- Quality of Life
- COPD
- Well-being
- Measurement and structural modeling
Dr. Anita Molzahn
- Quality of life in older adults
- Quality of life in chronic illness
- Quality of life in older adults across cultures
Dr. Belinda Parke
- Clinical Nurse Specialist - older adult health
- Health care transitions, dementia and geriatric syndromes in acute care nursing
- Elderly friendly hospital dimensions: clinical systems and processes, physical design
Dr. Susan Slaughter
- Functional outcomes of frail older adults
- Therapeutic use of environments in long-term care
- Mobility of persons with dementia
- Knowledge translation interventions to improve the care of older adults
Dr. Donna Wilson
- Health policy and policy development
- Nursing death education
- Rural aging
- Bereavement needs and services
- Home care trends and developments
- ALC and hospital waiting placement issues