Email andrews@mcmaster.ca Call 905.525.9140 ext. 26390 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Geographies of aging 
• Geographies of health care work 
• Geographies of wellbeing 
• Nursing education and practices 
• Music and health 
• Phobia Health in social history 
• Holistic medicine 
• Sports and fitness

Recent Publications:

• Skinner, M., Cloutier, D., & Andrews, G.J. (2015). Geographies of ageing: progress and possibilities after two decades of change. Progress in Human Geography, 39, 776-799

• Andrews, G.J. & Skinner, M. (2015). Geography of aging, older people. In Wright, J. (Eds.). International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier

• Andrews, G.J. (2014). Health Geography. In T. Brown et. al (Eds) The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society, (949–954).

• Andrews, G.J. (2014). ‘Gonna live forever’: Noel Gallagher’s spaces of wellbeing. In Andrews, G.J., Kingsbury, P., Kearns, R. (Eds.). Soundscapes of wellbeing in popular music. London: Ashgate Publishing.

• Andrews, G.J., Kingsbury, P., & Kearns, R.A. (Eds) (2014). Soundscapes of Wellbeing in Popular Music. Ashgate, London

• Andrews, G.J., Evans, J., & Wiles, J. (2013). Re-spacing and re-placing gerontology: relationality and affect. Ageing and Society, 33(8), 1339-1373.

• McBride, M., & Andrews, G.J. (2013). The transition from acute care to home: a review of issues in discharge teaching and a framework for better practice. Canadian Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 23(3), f18-24.

• Willison, K.D., Lindsay, S., Taylor, M., Schoreder, H., & Andrews, G.J. (2013). CIM, aging and chronic illness: towards an inter-professional approach in primary health care. In Adams, J,, Magin, P., & Broom, A. (Eds.). Primary Care and Complementary and Integrative Medicine: Research and Practice. London: Imperial College Press

• Andrews, G.J., Evans, J., Dunn, J., & Masuda, J. (2012). Arguments in health geography: on sub-disciplinary progress, observation, translation. Geography Compass, 6(6), 351-383

• Andrews, G.J., Hall, E., Evans, B., & Colls, R. (2012). Moving beyond walkability: on the potential of health geography. Social Science & Medicine, 75(11), 1925-1932

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• 2013-2015 Critical Health Research Network (CHRN) Faculty of Social Science, McMaster University, Research Capacity Enhancement Seed funding $47 000

Other Information:

Personal website: http://healthgeographies.com/

Email birukc@mcmaster.ca

Primary Area of Research:

• Critical Data Studies
• Critical Global Health Studies
• Medical Anthropology
• Ethnography
• Queer Studies
• African Studies

Recent Publications:

Book:

Biruk, C. 2018. Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World. Duke University Press.

Articles:

2020       Biruk, C. “Fake gays in queer Africa: NGOs, metrics, and modes of (queer) theory.” Gay and Lesbian Quarterly 26(3):477-502.

2020       Biruk, C. “The invention of ‘harmful cultural practices’ in the era of AIDS in Malawi.  Journal of Southern African Studies 46(2):339-356.

2019       Biruk, C. “The MSM category as bureaucratic technology: Reflections on paperwork and project time in performance based aid economies.” Medicine Anthropology Theory 6(4):187-214.

2019       Biruk, C.“Soap: Touching objects, feeling critique in critical global health studies.” Medicine Anthropology Theory 6(2):151-164.

2019      Biruk, C. and R. McKay. “Objects of critique in critical global health studies.” Medicine Anthropology Theory 6(2):142-150.

2018       Biruk, C. and Gift Trapence. “Community engagement in an economy of harms:Reflections from an LGBTI-rights NGO in Malawi.” Critical Public Health 28(3):340-351.

2017       Biruk, C. “Ethical gifts?: An analysis of soap-for-information transactions in Malawian survey research worlds.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 31(3):365-384.

Current Research Projects:

• Race, value, and counting: The emergence of ‘key populations’ in Malawi
• Global health in miniature: An object-centered ethnographic history
• Queer metrics: Embodied ethnography of fitness wearables

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
• Social Science Research Council
• National Science Foundation

Other Information:

Cal Biruk is Associate Professor of Anthropology. Cal is the author of Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World (Duke University Press, 2018); the book draws on ethnographic work in Malawi to trace the social lives of quantitative health data collected by population scientists, and shows how data reflect and cohere new social relations, persons, forms of expertise, and economies. Cal is also the author of numerous articles that have appeared in journals such as Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Critical Public Health, Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, Medicine Anthropology Theory, Journal of Modern African Studies, and Critical African Studies. Cal’s research and teaching interests include: medical anthropology, critical global health studies, postcolonial science and technology studies, anthropologies of quantification and data, histories of anthropological theory, and queer studies. Cal is working on a few projects, including one that theorizes global health—as knowledge project, form of governance, and site of resource distribution—from the perspective of small, seemingly minor objects. This book-in-progress curates global health technologies and devices such as flipcharts, HIV tests, packets of condoms, NGO vehicles, and annual reports, and analyzes the racialized relations, affects (such as trust and suspicion), and economies they assemble amid aid geographies and audit culture. Cal is also working on a project that theorizes fitness wearables as queer technologies amid the datafication of health and bodies, and beginning a new project that tracks the thing-concept of “African health”, and the relations, technologies, and ways of knowing it has cohered from the era of tropical medicine to Covid-19 in Malawi. Cal enjoys travel, running, marine life, hiking, and gardening.  

Email lcampbe@mcmaster.ca Call 905-525-9140 ext. 24943 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Men's experience in filial caregiving within the context of work and family
• Filial caregiving and the marital relationship / Gender and filial caregiving
• Masculinity and men's roles in caregiving
• Intergenerational exchange within families
• Inheritance and family relationships
• Adult sibling ties in middle and later life
• Marital status transitions / Permanent singlehood as a life transition

Email cecchett@mcmaster.ca Call 905.525.9140 ext. 24388 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Cognitive linguistics 
• Sociolinguistics 
• Discourse analysis 
• Intercultural and interpersonal communication 
• Pragmatics 
• Trauma theory 
• Computer Assisted Language Learning 
• Use of Autobiographical Narratives in sociolinguistic research 
• Cultural and language-based stereotypes 
• Communication with and about the elderly, especially immigrants

Recent Publications:

• Stroinska, M. & Cecchetto, V. (2013). Introduction: We need to talk about trauma. In M, Stroinska, V. Cecchetto, V. & K. Szymanski (eds.). The Unspeakable: Narratives of Trauma, (pp. 13-22). New York: Berghahn Books

  
  
  
  

Affiliated Research Groups:

• American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI)
• Association internationale de linguistique appliquée (AILA)
• Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA)
• International Pragmatic Association (IPrA)
• Teachers of English as a Second Language (TESLOntario)

Email dalmern@mcmaster.ca

Primary Area of Research:

• Family caregiving
• Gerontechnology
• Dementia
• Information behaviours
• Public libraries
• Institutional ethnography

Recent Publications:

• Dalmer, N. K. (2020). ‘Add info and stir’: An institutional ethnographic scoping review of family care-givers’ information work. Ageing & Society, 40(3), 663-689.
• Dalmer, N. K. (2019). A logic of choice: Problematizing the documentary reality of Canadian aging in place policies. Journal of Aging Studies, 48, 40-49.
• Rothbauer, P., & Dalmer, N. (2018). Reading as a lifeline among aging readers: Findings from a qualitative interview study with older adults. Library & Information Science Research, 40(3-4), 165-172.
• Dalmer, N. K. (2017). Mind the gap: Towards the integration of critical gerontology in public library praxis. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 1(1),

Current Research Projects:

• More Years Better Lives: “Being Connected” at Home – Making use of digital devices in later life
• Aging in Place with Public Libraries: Mobilizing Social Infrastructures for Social Inclusion
• University-Community Collaborate Research Platforms

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• The Michael F. Harcourt Policy Fellowship (AGE-WELL)
• Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement
• SSHRC Doctoral Canada Graduate Scholarships
• Learning About Your Digital Rights in the Digital Age: A hands-on workshop series for older adults (funded through ACT)
• SEEniors: Visual Representations of Older Age in Comics and Graphic Novels (funded through American Library Association’s Carnegie-Whitney Grant)

Affiliated Research Groups:

• Digital Aging Research Team
• AGE-WELL HQP
• TCAS (Trent Centre for Aging and Society) Postdoctoral Fellow

Email defalcai@mcmaster.ca Call 905-525-9140 ext. 24492 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Health humanities
• Aging studies
• Ethics of care philosophy
• Disability studies
• Posthumanism
• Contemporary literature and film

Recent Publications:

• Defalco, A. (2015). Imagining Care: Responsibility, Dependency, and Canadian Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

• Defalco, A. (2015). Graphic Somatography: Life Writing, Comics, and the Ethics of Care. Journal of Medical Humanities, (ahead of print), 1-18. DOI 10.1007/s10912-015-9360-6

• Defalco, A. (2014). Uncanny Witnessing: Dementia, Narrative, and Identity in Fiction by Munro and Franzen. In U. Kriebernegg, R. Maierhofer, & B. Ratzenböck (eds.). Alive and Kicking at All Ages: Health, Life Expectancy, and Life Course Identity (pp. 221-242). Ed. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. 

• Defalco, A. (2012). Dementia, Caregiving and Narrative in Michael Ignatieff's Scar Tissue. Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, 4. 

Current Research Projects:

Amelia's current research project explores human/non-human caregiving relations, examining the ethical and ontological implications of the affective bonds between humans and non-human caregivers, including companion animals and caregiving robots.

Affiliated Research Groups:

Jackman Humanities Institute

Email mdenton@mcmaster.ca Call 905.525.9140 ext. 23923 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Health and Aging
• Age-friendly Communities
• Community Health and Support Services (health human resources; access to services, organization, delivery and receipt of care)
• Retirement Planning and Income Inequality

Recent Publications:

• Denton, M., Plenderleith, J. & Chowhan, J. (2013).  Health and Disability as Determinants for Involuntary Retirement of People with Disabilities. Canadian Journal on Aging. 32(2): 1-15.

• Denton, M.,  Plenderleith, J. & Chowhan, J. (2012). Impact of Retirement Type on Income for People with Disabilities. Disability and Society, 28(3): 1-15.

• Brazil, K., Ploeg, J. & Denton, M. (2012). Identifying Research Priorities in Long-Term Care Homes. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 13(1): 84.e1-84.e4

Affiliated Research Groups:

• Ontario Health Human Resource Research Network
• Canadain Assocation on Gerontology

Email jim.dunn@mcmaster.ca Call 905.525.9140 x23832 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Socio-economic inequalities in health in urban areas

• Adult mental health and children's healthy development

• The relationship between the built environment and physical activity, obesity and diabetes in Canadian urban areas

• The relationship between income distribution and population health in North American metropolitan areas

Recent Publications:

• Dunn, J.R., van der Meulen, E., O’Campo, P. & Muntaner, C. (2013). Improving health equity through theory-informed evaluations: A look at housing first strategies, cross-sectoral health programs, and prostitution policy. Evaluation & Program Planning, 36(1): 184–190.

• Matheson, F.I., Dunn, J.R., Smith, K.L., Moineddin, R. & Glazier, R. (2012). Development of the Canadian Marginalization Index: A new tool for the study of health inequality. Canadian Journal of Public Health,103(Suppl. 2): S12-S16.

• Dunn, J.R. (2012). ‘Socially-mixed’ public housing redevelopment as a de-stigmatization strategy: A theoretical approach and empirical strategy. DuBois Review, 9(1): 87-105.

• Matheson, F.I., White, H.L., Moineddin, R., Dunn, J.R., & Glazier, R.H. (2012). Drinking in context: the influence of gender and neighbourhood deprivation on alcohol consumption. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 66(6): 1-9.

• O’Campo, P.J. & Dunn, J.R. (Eds.) (2012). Rethinking Social Epidemiology: Towards a Science of Change. New York: Springer. 348p. 

• Hwang, S.W., Gogosis, E., Chambers, C., Dunn, J.R., Hoch, J.S., & Aubry, T. (2011). Health status, quality of life, residential stability, substance use, and health care utilization among adults Applying to a supportive housing program. Journal of Urban Health, 88(6): 1076-1090.

• O’Campo, P.J. & Dunn, J.R. (2012). Introduction. In:  O’Campo, P.J. and Dunn, J.R. (Eds.). Rethinking Social Epidemiology: Towards a Science of Change. New York: Springer. pp. 1-19.

• Dunn, J.R. (2012). “Explanation,” Philosophy and Theory in Health Inequalities Research: Towards a Critical Realist Approach. In: O’Campo, P.J. and Dunn, J.R. (Eds.) Rethinking Social Epidemiology: Towards a Science of Change. New York: Springer. Pp. 23-42.

• Shankardass, K. & Dunn, J.R. (2012). How Goes The Neighbourhood? Rethinking Neighbourhoods and Health Research in Social Epidemiology. In: O’Campo, P.J. and Dunn, J.R. (Eds.) Rethinking Social Epidemiology: Towards a Science of Change. New York: Springer. pp. 137-156.

• Sridharan, S., Dunn, J.R. & Nakaima, A. (2012). Addressing Health Equities in Social Epidemiology: Learning from Evaluation(s). In: O’Campo, P.J. and Dunn, J.R. (Eds.) Rethinking Social Epidemiology: Towards a Science of Change. New York: Springer. pp. 247-266.

• Dunn, J.R. & O’Campo, P. (2012). Conclusions. In: O’Campo, P.J. and Dunn, J.R. (Eds.) Rethinking Social Epidemiology: Towards a Science of Change. New York: Springer. pp. 327-334.

Current Research Projects:

• Dunn, J., McKay, H., Murray, C., Anderson, L., Grenier, A., Heisz, J., Hooks, G., Kanaroglou, P., Newbold, B., Paez, A., Pisko, L., Raina, P., Scott, D., Sims-Gould, J., Tremain, H., Vrkljan, B., Winters, M., Yjannakoulias, N., & Young, M. Cross--sectoral policy implementation tools for healthier urban form futures. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) - Team Grant -Environments and Health: Programmatic Grants in Intersectoral Prevention Research LOI. 2016. $49,953.
  
  
• Grenier, A., & Dunn, J. Reducing Senior’s Social Isolation: Linking Community in a Participatory Research Initiative. Employment and Social Development Canada, Pan-Canadian Projects: New Horizons for Seniors Funding Program. 2015-2018. $281,043.
  
  
• Vrkljan, B., Mueller, A., Deen, M. J., Dunn, J., Fang, Q., Fleisig, R., Gish, J., Grenier, A., Griffith, L., Heisz, J., Paez, A., Phillips, S., Raina, P., Selvaganapathy, P. Designing thinking for a cross-faculty and community partner collaboration: A transformative approach to addressing the mobility needs of our aging population. McMaster University, Interdisciplinary Research Fund (IRF). 2016-2017. $20,000.
  

Email gabelc@mcmaster.ca Call 905.525.9140 x23316 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Aboriginal health policy
• Community-controlled health care
• Aboriginal governance
• Self-determination
• Aboriginal women's health
• Community-based research
• Ethics

Recent Publications:

• Gabel, C., Pace, J & Ryan, C. (2016). Using Photovoice to Understand Intergenerational Influences on Health and Well-Being in a Southern Labrador Inuit Community. International Journal of Indigenous Health. Vol 11, No. 1.

• Pace, J. & Gabel, C. (Under Review). Using Photovoice to Understand Barriers and Enablers to Southern Labrador Inuit Senior and Youth Interaction in Labrador, Canada. International Journal of Aging and Society.

• Gabel, C., Jackson, R. & Ryan, C. (In Press). Aging and HIV/AIDS among Indigenous Peoples: Recommendations for Research and Policy. In S. Hindmarch, M. Orsini & M. Gagnon, eds., Seeing Red: HIV/AIDS and Public Policy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 

• Gabel, C., Pace, J., & Ryan, C. (2016 Accepted). Using Photovoice to Understand Intergenerational Influences on Health and Well-Being in a Labrador Inuit community. Special Thematic Issue of the International Journal of Indigenous Health: “Wellness-Based Indigenous Health Promising Practices”  Published in Collaboration with the First Nations Health Authority.

• Cameron, E. & Gabel, C. (2015). The Kuglutuk Community Readiness Initiative, Report for the Government of Nunavut and the Hamlet of Kugluktuk. (134 pages).

• Pace, J. & Gabel, C. (Under Review). Using Photovoice to Understand Barriers and Enablers to Southern Labrador Inuit Senior and Youth Interaction in Labrador, Canada. International Journal of Aging and Society.

• Gabel, C., Jackson, R. & Ryan, C. (In Press). Aging and HIV/AIDS among Indigenous Peoples: Recommendations for Research and Policy. In S. Hindmarch, M. Orsini & M. Gagnon, eds., Seeing Red: HIV/AIDS and Public Policy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 

Email gillett@mcmaster.ca Call 905-525-9140 ext. 27424 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Media and cultural representations
• Sport and physical activity
• The body
• Interspecies

Affiliated Research Groups:

• HIV/AIDS organizations

Email gishje@mcmaster.ca Call 905-525-9140 ext. 27414 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Sociology of Aging

• Medical Sociology

• Science and Technology Studies

• Gender

• Sociology of Knowledge

• Sociology of the Body

• Qualitative Research Methods

• Anti-Aging Technologies

• Beauty and Body Work

• Age Identity

Recent Publications:

• Gish, J.A., & Vrkljan, B. (2016). Aging embodiment and the somatic work of getting into and out of a car. Journal of Aging Studies, 36, 3346. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406515300645.

• Katz, S., & Gish, J. (2015). Aging in the Biosocial Order: Repairing Time and Cosmetic Rejuvenation in a Medical Spa Clinic. The Sociological Quarterly, 56(1), 40-61.

• Crizzle, A.M., Vrkljan, B.H., Kajaks, T., Gish, J., & Fleisig, R. (2014). A Systematic Review of Driver Ingress and Egress Using Passenger Vehicles: Considerations for Designers. Journal of Ergonomics: Special Issue on Driver Safety, S3, 1-5. doi: 10.4172/2165-7556.S3-005

• Siemieniuk, R.A, Krentz, H.B., Gill, M.J., & Gish, J.A. (2010). Domestic Violence Screening: Prevalence and Outcomes in a Canadian HIV Population. AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 24, 12, 763-770.

• Frank, A.W., Corman, M., Gish, J.A., & Lawton, P. (2010). Healer/Patient Interaction: New Mediations in Clinical Relationships. In I.L. Bourgeault, R. De Vries & R. Dingwall (Eds.), Handbook on Qualitative Health Research (pp. 34-52). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.  

Current Research Projects:

• Vrkljan, B (PI)., Deen, J., Dunn, J., Fang, Q., Fleisig, R., Gish, J.A., ... & Selvaganapathy, R. (2016). Design Thinking for a Cross-Faculty and Community Partner Collaboration: A Transformative Approach to Addressing the Mobility Needs of our Aging Population. Interdisciplinary Research Fund, McMaster University, $20 000.

• Gish, J. (PI) & Grenier, A., & Vrkljan, B. (May 2014-April 2016). Bodies, Technology, and Aging: Older People Driving a High-Tech Personal Automobile. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) - Insight Development Grant, $49 683.

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Grenier, A. (PI)., Gish, J., Vrkljan, B., & Paez, A. (Jan 2015-Dec 2015). Technology for Optimal Aging: An exploratory study o fthe effects of automobile innovations on the lived experience of older drivers, their mobility, and social policy. Labarge Optimal Aging Fund. $50 499

Affiliated Research Groups:

• Canadian Association on Gerontology
• Gerontological Society of America
• Canadian Sociology Association
• British Sociological Association (Aging Body & Society Study Group)

Email jwgladstone@rogers.com Call 905-525-9140 ext. 23786 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Family and interface between families and other systems

• Individual, couple and family counselling and social group work

• Relationships between individuals and between formal and informal systems

• Child welfare agencies, families and long-term care facilities

• Employees and management in the workplace

Recent Publications:

• Gladstone, J.W., Fitzgerald, K-A., & Brown, R.A. (2012). Social Workers' Use of Power in Relationships with Grandparents in Child Welfare Settings. British Journal of Social Work, 43(6), 1073-91. DOI:10.1093/bjsw/bcs039                                                                                                                         

Affiliated Research Groups:

• Child Welfare Agencies
• Long-Term Care Facilities

Email griffmb@mcmaster.ca Call 9055259140 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Social psychology and aging
• Health and well being
• Disability
• Gender and embodiment
• Leisure and physical activity

Recent Publications:

• Griffin, M.  (2015). Physical activity among older adults with sight loss. In Phoenix, C. & Tulle, E. (Eds.), Physical Activity and Sport in Later Life: Critical Approaches, (pp. 161-174).  Basingstoke, UK:  Palgrave MacMillan

• Griffin, M. & Phoenix, C. (2015). Women’s lived experiences of health and ageing in physical activity. In Molnar, G., & Purdy, L. (Eds.), Ethnographies in Sport and Exercise Research, (pp. 77-95). London, UK: Routledge.

• Phoenix, C. & Griffin, M.  (2015). Sport, physical activity and ageing. In Twigg, J., and Martin, W. (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology. (pp. 329-336). London: Routledge.

• Griffin, M. & Phoenix, C. (2014). Learning to run from narrative foreclosure: One woman's story of aging and physical activity.  Journal of Aging and Physical Activity.

• Phoenix, C. & Griffin, M. (2013). Narratives at work: What can stories of older athletes do? Ageing & Society, 33(2): 243-66. 

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Phoenix, C. (Co-P.I.), Smith, B. (Co-P.I.), Howe, D. (Co-I) & Griffin, M. (Co-I). (01/08/12 – 31/10/13). Thomas Pocklington Trust. Physical Activity Among Older People with Sight Loss: A Qualitative Research Study to Inform Policy and Practice.  £100,000 (15 months).

Affiliated Research Groups:

• Groups of mid to late life adults (primarily women), involved in physical activity/sport

• Older adults with sight loss/acquired disability. 

Email grignon@mcmaster.ca Call 905.525.9140 ext. 23493 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Economics of aging as it applies to health care
• Economic analysis of equity in health and health care
• International comparisons of health care systems
• Impact of ageing on medical progress
• Impact of business cycle on health
• Determinants of smoking 

Recent Publications:

• Roham, M., Gabrielyan, A.R., Archer, N.P., Grignon, M.L., & Spencer, B.G. (2014). The Impact Of Technological Intensity Of Service Provision On Physician Expenditures: An Exploratory Investigation. Health economics, 23(10), 1224-1241. DOI: 10.1002/hec.2979.

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• April 2012-March 2013
  CHEPA Annual Research Program, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, CAD $984,000, PI

• January 2012 – June 2012
  Estimating the efficiency of health care systems in Canada using SFAs and DEAs, Canadian Institute of Health Information, CAD $12,000, PI

•  June 2011 – September 2011
  Technical progress and old-age dependency: trends and prospects, OECD,CAD $2,400, PI

• November 2010 – February 2011
  The Economics of healthy aging, Public Health Agency of Canada, CAD $15,000, PI.

• September 2010 – December 2010
  Financing Long-Term Care in Canada; Institute for Research in Public Policies/Institut de Recherches en Politiques Publiques, Montréal, CAD $1,000, PI.

Email dhsmith@mcmaster.ca Call 905 525-9140 ext. 23248 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Practices and applications of avatar virtual worlds including: Ethnography of virtual worlds

• macGRID––a multidisciplinary network and Open Sim platform for research andcreation in online virtual worlds

• Augmented and mixed reality environments

• Art practice in virtual worlds

• Assistive media technologies for persons with disabilities

• Education and knowledge translation using virtual worlds

• Interaction design

• Interface Design including biometric and brain control interfaces

• Cognitive science of media, Robotics, Artificial intelligence, Media arts, Digital cultures, and Grounded Theory

Affiliated Research Groups:

• International Society for Engineering Education

• Canadian National Monitoring Committee

• Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR)

• Canadian Communications Association (CCA)

Email hurley@mcmaster.ca Call 905 525 9140 ext. 26156 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

Dr. Hurley's current work includes an examination of public and private roles in health care financing, resource allocation and health care funding models, the use of incentives in health care, and the application of experimental methods in health economics.

Recent Publications:

• Li, J.,  Hurley, J.  P. DiCicca and G. Buckley. 2014.  "Physician Response to Pay-for-performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment." Health Economics. Vol. 23(8): 962-978.

• Asada, Y., G. Kephart, Hurley, J.  Y. Yashida, A. Smith, and S. Bornstein. 2012.  "The role of proximity to death in need-based approaches to health care." Health Policy. Vol. 106(3): 291-302.

Current Research Projects:

• health care financing, particularly public and private roles in health care financing. 

• equity in health care

• resource allocation and funding in the health sector  

• normative economic analysis in the health sector

• experimental methods in health economics  

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• J. Hurley and J. Lavis (co-PIs), J. Abelson, M. Giacomini, M. Grignon, G. Randell, and A. Sweetman (CIs)  (April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2016) Harnessing Evidence and Values for Health System Performance Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care.  $4,961,964.

• M. Grignon and J. Hurley (Co-PIs), B. Newbold, J. You and S. Allin (CIs) (April 1, 2010- March 30, 2012) The Link Between Access to Primary Care and Inequity in Hospital Utilization in Canada.". Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Other Information:

Dr. Hurley earned his bachelor’s degree in economics at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio and his master’s and Ph.D. in economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He arrived at McMaster in 1988, appointed as an assistant professor in the department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

In 2000, he was appointed professor in the department of Economics and named chair in 2011. His service includes leadership roles in the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, membership in the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute Scientific Advisory Board and with the board of directors of the Canadian Association of Health Services and Policy Research. He is now the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, a professor in the Department of Economics, a member of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, and a member of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, all at McMaster University. His research on the economics of health and health care systems includes physician behaviour, funding models and resource association in health care, public and private roles in health care financing, financial incentives in health systems, equity in health systems, normative frameworks in health economics, and the application of experimental economic methods in health research. He has published in leading health economic, health policy, and health services research journals and has acted as a consultant to regional, provincial, national and international agencies.  He is the author of the Canadian health economics textbook, Health Economics (McGraw-Hill Ryerson). 

Email jacksr3@mcmaster.ca View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Aboriginal Health 
• HIV/AIDS

Other Information:

Recently, Randy Jackson was awarded a pre-doctoral fellowship leading to an assistant professorship and is now cross-appointed in the Department of Health, Aging and Society. He previously completed a B.A. in social sciences (sociology) from the University of Ottawa (1994) and a M.A. in sociology from the University of Manitoba (2003). The PhD program has provided Randy with an opportunity to further explore the use of Indigenous knowledges in research, the focus of his PhD thesis, and will be used to look at experiences and responses to depression among Aboriginal peoples living with HIV.

Email joshia@mcmaster.ca Call 905.525.9140 ext. 23242 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Diversity and aging
• Inclusive environments and anti-opression practice
• Quality of life for older adults
• Experiential education

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Gerontology Experiential Education Initative, Faculty Grant, Faculty of Social Sciences Gerontology Students’ Advanced Field Placement Trip to Health Canada (now Public Health Agency) Ottawa, $2,500

• Enhancing Undergraduate Gerontology Education Through Innovation, Project funded by the McMaster Centre for Leadership and learning and the Faculty of Social Sciences,  $100, 000

• “Socio-economic Diemnsions of an Aging Population: A Program of Research” Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Major Collaborative Research Initiatives (MCRI)

• “Preparations for Later Life” Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

   

Affiliated Research Groups:

• Canadian Association on Gerontology
• National Case Management Network

Email leblanyl@mcmaster.ca View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Health and Aging
• Gender
• Holistic Medicine
• Embodiment and Chronic Illness
• Health Professions
• Educational Gerontology

Recent Publications:

Neiterman, E., & LeBlanc, Y. (2018). The timing of pregnancy: women’s interpretations of planned and unplanned pregnancy.” Qualitative Sociology Review. 14(1):52-66. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.14.1.03.

LeBlanc Y. (2016). The re-emergence of other healing paradigms In J. Gillett and G. Andrews (Eds.), Health and Society: Critical Perspectives. (pp.198-222). Don Mills Ontario: Oxford University Press.

Bourgeault, I. L., LeBlanc, Y., & Winkup, J. (2013). On the move:  A comparative examination of policy regarding internationally educated health professionals. Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Current Research Projects:

An Evaluation of the ‘Intergenerational Learning’ Component of an Introduction to Aging and Society Course. MacPherson Institute Teaching & Learning PALAT (Priority Areas for Teaching and Learning) Research Grant. 2020.

Affiliated Research Groups:

• Canadian Association on Gerontology
• Canadian Sociological Association

Other Information:

I received my PhD from the Sociology Department at McMaster University in 2010 and since that time I have been working as a sociologist in the area of health and aging. My scholarly interests fit broadly within the areas of critical health and aging studies, and educational gerontology. Over the past decade, I have taught a wide variety of core and elective health and aging undergraduate courses in the Health Aging and Society Department at McMaster University. As a teacher, pedagogically, I am primarily interested in engaging students in experiential and active learning opportunities that are  designed to enhance their learning about aging; more specifically, to critically reflect on their attitudes about older people and growing older and the contemporary issues facing older adults.

Email paceje@mcmaster.ca View Website

Recent Publications:

• Pace, J.E., & Grenier, A. (2016)  Expanding the Circle of Knowledge: Reconceptualizing Successful Aging Among North American Older Indigenous Peoples.The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological and Social Sciences (2016); doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbw128

• Jacklin, K., Pace, J.E., & Warry, W. (2015). Informal Dementia Caregiving Among Indigenous Communities in Ontario, Canada. Care Management Journals, 16(2):106-120.

• Williams, A.L., Verwood, R., Beery, T.A., Dalton, H., McKinnon, J., Pace, J.E., & Poole, G. (2013). The Power of Social Networks: A Model for Weaving the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning into Institutional Culture. Teaching and Learning Inquiry: The ISSOTL Journal, 1(2):49-62

• Pace, J.E., Jacklin, K., & Warry, W. (2012). Perceptions of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Among Aboriginal Peoples in Ontario. Report for Manitoulin Island, November 18.

• Pace, J.E. (2012). Understanding Aging: Culture, Cognitive Health, and Contemporary Aboriginal People’s Experience with Dementia. Anthropology and Aging Quarterly, 33(1):14, 22.

Current Research Projects:

• Arts Research Board Research Grant (2016-2017). Arts Research Board, McMaster University

• Alzheimer Society Research Program Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015-2017). Alzheimer Society of Canada

Past Grant/Research Projects:

•  Travel Assistance Grant (2010-2011). McMaster University Graduate Student Association  
•  Fieldwork Grant (2010-2011). McMaster School of Graduate Studies

Other Information:

Supervised by Dr. Amanda Grenier her research seeks to understand how southern and central Labrador Inuit peoples perceive transitions between normal aging and dementia and how these understandings impact prevention, help-seeking, early intervention and service use in southeastern Labrador.

Email ryaneb@mcmaster.ca View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Psychology of aging 
• Communication 
• Story writing and storytelling among older adults 
• Spirituality 
• Dementia 
• Aging and community 
• Mental health and aging

Recent Publications:

• Ryan, E.B., Crispin, D., & Daigneault, M. (2013). “In my own words”: Writing down life stories to promote conversation in dementia. In R. W. Schrauf & N. Mueller (Eds.), Dialogue and dementia: Cognitive and communicative resources for engagement (pp. 183-212). Florence KY: Psychology Press. 

• Ryan, E.B. (2013). Writing exercises to engage the spirit of travel. In P. S. Bourk (Ed), Journeys outward journeys inward: Travel and transformation (pp. 145-150). Chapel Hill NC: Second Journey. 

• Ryan, E.B. (2013). Writing practice: Plunging inward for the giving words. In B. Anthony , R. Pevny, E. B. Ryan, C. Moore, & R. Morris (Eds), Second Journeys: The Dance of the spirit in later life (pp. 77-81). Chapel Hill NC: Second Journey. 

Current Research Projects:

• Using Poetry to Affirm Personhood and Enhance Meaningful Interactions
  Hamilton/Halton/Brantford/Niagara Alzheimer Society

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Fostering Successful Aging: The Aging Artist as Exemplar for Gerontological Social Work. Thecla Damianakis (PI), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 2010-2012. 

• Movement Matters: Dance as a Health Promotion Strategy. Pat Spadafora (PI), Catalyst Grant – CIHR Pilot Projects in Aging, 2009-2011.

Email savellm@mcmaster.ca View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• History of psychiatry and mental health
• Advertising of psychopharmaceutical medication
• Addiction and marketing
• Global history of science and medicine

Recent Publications:

• James Gillett, Gavin J. Andrews, and Mat Savelli (eds.), Health and Society: Critical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2016).

• Mat Savelli and Sarah Marks (eds.), Psychiatry in Communist Europe (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015).

• Mat Savelli, Shawn O’Connor, Emily Di Sante, Joanna Cohen, “Packaging Digital Culture to Young Smokers” BMJ: Tobacco Control 24(3) 2015, pp. 303-305.

Email sinding@mcmaster.ca View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Women’s experience of cancer shaped by age, sexual identity, social class 
• Organization of health care services as it plays out for service providers and patients 
• Social organization of cancer care 
• Privlidge and disadvantage 
• Equity and ethical practice 
• Patients and families involvement in healthcare 
• Links between social work and the arts

Recent Publications:

• Miller, P., Sinding, C., McGillicuddy, P., Gould, J., Fitzpatrick-Lewis, D., Learn, L., Wiernikowski, J., Fitch, M. (2014). Disparities in cancer care: perspectives from the front line. Palliative and Supportive Care, 12(03), 175-181

Affiliated Research Groups:

• Front line practitioners in cancer care (social workers, nurses) 

Email stroinsk@mcmaster.ca Call 905.525.9140 ext. 27067 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Sociolinguistics 
• Cross-cultural communication (cultural stereotyping, language and politics, propaganda, the issues of identity in exile, aging and bilingualism) 
• The effects of texting on literacy and language and psychological trauma 
• Linguistic theory 
• Language philosophy 
• Grammar of German and Slavic languages

Recent Publications:

• Stroinska, M., (2014). Metaphors we li(v)e by: Disease as a conceptual metaphor for sexual assault. In M, Stroinska, V. Cecchetto, V. & K. Szymanski (eds.). The Unspeakable: Narratives of Trauma, (pp. 193-200). New York: Berghahn Books

• Stroinska, M., Szymanski, K. & Cecchetto, V. (2013). Introduction: We need to talk about trauma. In M, Stroinska, V. Cecchetto, V. & K. Szymanski (eds.). The Unspeakable: Narratives of Trauma, (pp. 13-22). New York: Berghahn Books

• Stroinska, M. & Cecchetto, V. (2013). Facework in electronically-mediated communication in the academic environment. In M. Jamarani & F. Sharifian (eds.). Intercultural Communication in the New Era. Book series: Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, John Benjamins (pp. 160-181).

• Drzazga, G., Stroinska, M., & Sullivan, W.J. (2012). Pratchett’s death in translation: masculine śmierć? In I. Wawrzyczek & A. Kędzierska (eds). (Non)omnis moriar: Cultural and Literary Discourses of Death and Immortality (pp. 83-92). Lublin: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Press. 

• Drzazga, G & Stroinska, M. (2012). The grammatical gender of Death: A textual and discourse approach. Warsaw East European Review, 5, 324-340.

• Drzazga, G., Radisevic, I., & Stroinska, M. (2012). Discourse on minorities and social exclusion in post-communist Poland and Serbia: An exercise in political correctness or a test for tolerance. Warsaw East European Review, 2, 115-130.

Email veall@mcmaster.ca View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Econometrics
• Empirical applications in public economics
• Savings and Pensions 
• Income support programs and the income distribution

Recent Publications:

• Veall, M.R. (2014). Estimates of the Number of Guaranteed Income Supplement Recipients Who Receive Income from Registered Retirement Savings Plans. Canadian Tax Journal, 62(2), 383-399.

• Veall, M.R. (2014). Cash RRSPs Early, Avoid Clawback. Tax Highlights, 22(1).  

Current Research Projects:

• One of a very large number of co-investigators in the Canadian Longitudinal Survey of Aging (Principal Investigators: Parminder Raina, Susan Kirkland, Christina Wolfson), which has received research funding in excess of $30 million 

• Currently hold a SSHRC grant for $68 000 over three years entitled “The Surge of Top Income Shares in Canada: Determinants and Implications”

• PI on a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant entitled “Building Network to Study Productivity in Canada from a Firm-Level Perspective” which is $200 000 over two years

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• 2005 – 2011
  SSHRC Multidiscplinary Collaborative Research Initiative
  “Research Program for the Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population”
  Co-Investigator (Byron Spencer, Principal Investigator)
  $2,400,000

Affiliated Research Groups:

• American Economics Association 
• Canadian Economics Association 
• Canadian Tax Foundation 
• Econometric Society

Email zhoura@mcmaster.ca Call 905 525 9140 ext. 23787 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Globalization 
• Immigration 
• Transnationalisim 
• HIV/AIDS 
• Global Health 
• Social/health policy 
• Aging 
• Sexuality 
• Temporality

Recent Publications:

• Zhou, Y. R., Sinding C., & Goellnicht, D. (Eds.). (2021).  Sexualities, transnationalism, and globalization: New Perspectives. London & New York: Routledge. 

• Zhou, Y. R. (2021). Vaccine nationalism: Contested relationships between COVID-19 and globalization. Globalizations. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2021.1963202

• Zhou, Y. R. (2021).  “Transnational sexualities: Trajectories of Chinese queer immigrants to Canada”.  In Y. R. Zhou, C. Sinding, & D.  Goellnicht (Eds.), Sexualities, transnationalism, and globalization: New Perspectives (pp. 46-59). London & New York: Routledge.

• Zhou, Y. R., Goellnicht, D., & Sinding, C. (2021).  “Introduction”.  In Y. R. Zhou, C. Sinding, & D.  Goellnicht (Eds.), Sexualities, transnationalism, and globalization: New Perspectives (pp. 1-15). London & New York: Routledge. 

• Zhou, Y. R. (2020). “Transnational grandparenting: The intersection of transnationalism and translocality”. In V. Timonen (Ed.), Grandparenting practices around the world Grandparenting practices around the world (pp.113-130). Bristol: Policy Press. (Available at: https://policypress.co.uk/grandparenting-practices-around-the-world#book-detail-tabs-stison-block-content-1-0-tab2)

• Zhou, Y.R. . The New Aging Trajectories of Chinese Grandparents in Canada. In P. Dossa & C. Coe (eds.), Transnational Aging and Kin-Work. Rutgers: University Press.

• Zhou, Y.R., & Shi, S. . Pension reforms in the context of the global financial crisis: A reincarnation of pension privatization through austerity?. In S. McBride & B. Evans (eds.), Lived Experience of Austerity. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 

• Zhou, Y.R., & Coleman, W.D. (2015). Accelerated contagion and response: Understanding the relationships among globalization, time, and disease. Globalizations (Special issue on Time and Globalization), 13(3). DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2015.1056498 

• Zhou, Y.R. (2014). Austerity now, poverty later?: Pensions. In D. Baines & S. McBride (eds.), Orchestrating Austerity  (pp. 120-133). Fernwood Publishing. 

• Zhou, Y.R. (2013). Toward transnational care interdependence: Rethinking the relationships between care, immigration and social policy. Global Social Policy, 13(3), 280-298.

• Zhou, Y.R. (2013). Transnational aging: The impacts of adult immigration on their parents’ laterlives. Transnational Social Review (Special Issue on Transnational Aging), 3(1), 49-64.

• Neiysmith, S.M. & Zhou, Y.R. (2013). Mapping another dimension of a feminist ethics of care: Family-based transnational care. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. (Special Issue on Aging and Long-term Care), 6(2), 141-159.

• Zhou, Y.R. (2013). Time, space and care: Rethinking transnational care from a temporal perspective. Time & Society, 1-20. http://tas.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/07/02/0961463X13491342.abstract)

• Neysmith, S.M. & Zhou, Y.R. (2013). Mapping another dimension of a feminist ethics of care: Family-based transnational care. International Jornal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 6(2), 141-159.

• Zhou, Y.R. (2012). Space, time, and self: Rethinking aging in the contexts of immigration and transnationalism. Journal of Aging Studies, 26(3), 232-242.

• Zhou, Y.R. (2012). Changing behaviours and continuing silence: Sex in the post-immigration lives of mainland Chinese immigrants in Canada. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 14(1), 87-110.

Current Research Projects:

Zhou, Y. R. (2020-2024). “Globalization, time, and nostalgia: A transnational conjunctural analysis”. SSHRCC Insight Grant.

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Zhou, Y. R., Coleman, W., Huang, Y. (PIs), Cain, R., Chan, J., Gahagan, J. C., Gao, Y., Micollier, E., Sinding, C., & Wei, W. (2011-2015). Living in “transnational spaces”: Gendered vulnerability to HIV of Chinese immigrants in Canada and the implications for future interventions. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Operating Grant, $406,716.

• Zhou, Y. R. Coleman, W. (PIs), & Majumdar, B. (2007-2009). HIV/AIDS in the context of international migration and global interdependence: Understanding the vulnerability to HIV of Chinese and Indian immigrant communities in Canada. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Globalization, Gender and Health Seed Grant, $99,866.

• Zhou, Y. R. (PI) (2007-2010). Care, aging and globalization: Transnational care-giving experiences of Chinese seniors in Canada. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Standard Research Grant, $48,027.

Patents:

• Ethno-cultural immigrant communities, especially Chinese immigrant communities 
• Community-based social/health services 
• International NGOs

Affiliated Research Groups:

Member: Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition

Email vdalbel@mcmaster.ca Call (905) 525-9140 ext: 27822 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Function and quality of life in older adults and individuals with neurodegenerative diseases, particularly those with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and dementia
• Therapeutic interventions that maximize function and quality of life along the aging continuum
• Educational research  - professional issues, use of web-based interfaces in teaching, peer evaluation and strategies to increase capacity of health care professionals interested in working with older adults and neurologic populations

Recent Publications:

•  O'Connell, M.E., Dal Bello-Haas, V., Crossley, M., & Morgan, D.G. (2015). Attitudes Toward Physical Activity and Exercise: Comparison of Memory Clinic Patients and Their Caregivers and Prediction of Activity Levels. Journal of aging and physical activity, 23(1), 112-119,.

• Dal Bello-Haas V. (2014). Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. In S.B. O’Sullivan & T.J. Schmitz (eds). Physical Rehabilitation (6th ed.) (pp. 769-806). Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company. 

• Morgan, D., Crossley, M., Stewart, N., Kirk, A., Forbes, D., Dal Bello-Haas, V., ... & Cammer, A. (2014). Evolution of a Community-Based Participatory Approach in a Rural and Remote Dementia Care Research Program. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: research, education, and action, 8(3): 337. 

• Richardson, J., Dal Bello-Haas, V., Loyola-Sanchez, A., Joy MacDermid, J., & Sinclair, S. (2013). Self-management of Function in Older Adults: The Contribution of Physical Therapy. Current Translational Geriatrics and Experimental Gerontology Reports, 2(4): 215-229. DOI:10.1007/s13670-013-0058-1

• Ghandehari, O.O., Hadjistavropoulos, T. Williams, J., Thorpe, L., Alfano, D.P., Dal Bello Haas, V. ... & Lix, L. (2013). A controlled investigation of continuing pain education for long-term care staff. Pain Research and Management, 18(1): 11-18.

• Quinn, L., Busse, M., & Dal Bello-Haas, V. (2012). Management of upper extremity dysfunction in people with Parkinson disease and Huntington disease: Facilitating outcomes across the disease lifespan. Journal of Hand Therapy, 26(2): 148-155.

• Lawson, S., Zaluski, N., Petrie, A., Arnold, C., Basran, J., & Dal Bello-Haas, V. (2012). Validation of the Saskatoon Falls Prevention Consortium’s Falls Screening and Referral Algorithm. Physiotherapy Canada, 65(1): 31-39. DOI:10.3138/ptc.2011-17

• Basran, J.F.S., Dal Bello-Haas, V., Walker, D., MacLeod, P., Allen, B., D’Eon, M., ... & Trinder, K. The Longitudinal Elderly Person Shadowing Program: Outcomes from an Interprofessional Senior Partner Mentoring Program. Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 33(3): 302-23. DOI:10.1080/02701960.2012.679369.

• Dal Bello-Haas, V.P., Thorpe, L.U., Lix, L.M., Scudds, R., & Hadjistavropoulos, T. (2012). The effects of a long-term care walking program on balance, falls and well-being. BMC Geriatrics, 12(1). DOI:10.1186/1471-2318-12-76.

Affiliated Research Groups:

• The Rural Dementia Care Team,  University of Regina

• The Centre on Aging and Health, University of Regina

Email dobbinsm@mcmaster.ca Call 905.525.9140 Ext. 22481 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Knowledge translation and exchange among public health decision makers 
• Information needs of public health decision makers
• Developed, implemented, and evaluated a variety of knowledge translation strategies for public health decision makers

Recent Publications:

• Traynor R., DeCorby K., Dobbins M. (2014). Knowledge brokering in public health: A tale of two studies. Public Health, [Epub ahead of print]. Available at: http://www.publichealthjrnl.com/article/S0033-3506(14)00032-8/abstract

• Yousefi-Nooraie,R., Dobbins, M., Marin, A. (2014). Social and organizational factors affecting implementation of evidence-informed practice in a public health department in Ontario: A network modelling approach. Implementation Science, Available at: http://www.implementationscience.com/content/9/1/29 

• Yost, J., Ciliska, D., Dobbins, M.  (2014).Evaluating the impact of an intensive education workshop on evidence-informed decision making knowledge, skills, and behaviours: A mixed methods study. BMC Medical Education, 14: 13. Available at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/14/13

• Allen, P., Sequeira, S.,  Jacob, R.R., Akira, A., Hino, F., Stamatakis, K.A., Harris, J.K.,  Elliott, L., Kerner, J.F.,  Jones, E.,  Dobbins, M.,  Baker, E.A., Brownson, R.C. (2013). Promoting state health department evidence-based cancer and chronic disease prevention: A multi-phase dissemination study with a cluster randomized trial component. Implementation Science, 8: 141.

• Carter, N., Dobbins, M., Ireland, S., Hoxby, H., Peachey, G., DiCenso, A. (2013). Knowledge gaps regarding APN roles: What hospital decision makers tell us. Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership, 26(4): 60-75.

• Gilleland, J., McGugan,J., Brooks, S., Dobbins, M., Ploeg, J. (2013). Caring for critically ill children in the community: A qualitative needs assessment. BMJ Quality & Safety, [Epub ahead of print]. Available at: http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/early/2013/12/17/bmjqs-2013-002070.long

• Armstrong, R., Waters, E., Dobbins, M., Anderson, L., Moore, L., Petticrew, M., Clark, R., Pettman, T., Burns, C., Moodie, M., Conning, R., Swinburn, B. (2013). Knowledge translation strategies to improve the use of evidence in public health decision making in local government: Intervention design and implementation plan. Implementation Science, 8(1): 121. Available at: http://www.implementationscience.com/content/8/1/121

• Boyko, J.A., Dobbins, M., DeCorby, K. Hanna, S. (2013).  Comparison of the use of Self-Report Surveys and Organizational Documents in Knowledge Translation Research. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 28(1):67-85. Available at:  http://cjpe.synergiesprairies.ca/cjpe/index.php/cjpe/issue/current

• Dobbins, M., DeCorby, K,. Choi, B.C.K. (2013).  The association between obesity and cancer risk: a meta-analysis of observational studies from 1985 to 2011. ISRN Preventive Medicine, Article ID 680536, 16 pages Available at:  http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2013/680536 .

• Dobbins M., Husson H., DeCorby K., LaRocca R.L. (2013). School-based physical activity programs for promoting physical activity and fitness in children and adolescents aged 6 to 8. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2:CD007651. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD007651.pub2.  Available at:  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23450577

• Sword, W., Niccols, A., Yousefi-Nooraie, R., Dobbins, M., Lipman, E., Smith, P. (2013).  Partnerships among Canadian agencies serving women with substance abuse issues and their children. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 11(3):344-357.  Available at:  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11469-012-9418-x  

• Novotná, G.,Dobbins, M., Jack, S. M., Sword, W., Niccols, A., Brooks, S., & Henderson, J. (2013). The influence of lived experience with addiction and recovery on practice-related decisions among professionals working in addiction agencies serving women. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 20(2): 140-148. doi:10.3109/09687637.2012.714015. Available at:  http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/09687637.2012.714015

•  LaRocca, R., Yost, J., Dobbins, M., Ciliska, D., Butt, M. (2012). The effectiveness of knowledge translation strategies used in public health: a systematic review. BMC Public Health, 12:751. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-751. Available at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/12/751. This article is designated as highly accessed by the journal.

• Matthew-Maich, N., Ploeg, J., Jack, S., Dobbins, M. (2012).  Leading on the frontlines with passion and persistence: a necessary condition for Breastfeeding Best Practice Guideline uptake. Journal of Clinical Nursing,  22(11-12):1759-1770. doi: 10.1111/jocn.12027. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23186340

• Novotná, G., Dobbins, M., Henderson, J. (2012). Institutionalization of evidence-informed practices in healthcare settings. Implementation Science,7:112. doi:10.1186/1748-5908-7-112. Available at:  http://www.implementationscience.com/content/7/1/112. This article is designated as highly accessed by the journal.

• Boyko, J.A., Lavis, J.N., Abelson, J., Dobbins, M., Carter, N. (2012). Deliberative dialogues as a mechanism for knowledge translation and exchange in health systems decision-making. Social Science and Medicine, 75(11):1938-1945. doi 10.1016  j.socscimed.2012.06.016.  Available at:  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22938912.

• Wolfe, D. M., Sargeant J.M., Dobbins. M., McEwen, S.A. (2012). Knowledge translation and exchange in the Canadian microbial food safety system: A quantitative assessment of researcher awareness, attitude, and activities with government policymakers. Food Policy, 37(6):589-599 doi 10.1016/j.foodpol.2012.06.004. Available at:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2012.06.004.

• Matthew-Maich, N., Ploeg, J., Dobbins, M., Jack, S. (2012). Supporting the uptake of nursing guidelines: What you really need to know to move nursing guidelines into practice. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 10(2):104-15. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-6787.2012.00259.x. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22731122.

• Yousefi-Nooraie, R., Dobbins, M., Brouwers, M., Wakefield, P. (2012). Information seeking for making evidence-informed decisions: A social network analysis on the staff of a public health department in Canada. BMC Health Services Research, 12:118. doi:10.1186/1472-6963-12-118. Available at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/12/118This article is designated as highly accessed by the journal. 

• McKibbon K.A., Lokker, C., Wilczynski, N.L., Haynes, R.B., Ciliska, D., Dobbins, M.,Davis, D.A., Strauss, S.E. (2012). Search filters can find some but not all knowledge translation articles in MEDLINE: An analytic survey. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 65(6): 651-659.  doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2011.10.014. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22424986.

• Cunningham, C.E., Henderson, J., Niccols, A., Dobbins, M., Sword, W., Chen, Y., Mielko, S., Milligan, K., Lipman, E., Thabane, L., Schmidt, L. (2012). Preferences for evidence-based practice dissemination in addiction agencies serving women: A discrete-choice conjoint experiment. Addiction, 107(8): 1512-1524. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2012.03832.x. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22296280.

• Lee, E., Dobbins, M., DeCorby, K., McRae, L., Tirilis, D., Husson, H. (2012). An optimal search filter for retrieving systematic reviews and meta-analyses. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 12:51. doi:10.1186/1471-2288-12-51. Available at: www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/12/51. This article is designated as highly accessed by the journal.

• Sibbald, S.L., Kothari, A., Rudman, D., Dobbins, M., Rouse, M., Edwards, N., Gore, D. (2012). Partnerships in Public Health: Lessons from Knowledge Translation and Program Planning. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 44(1): 95-119. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22679847.
•  Kothari, A., Rudman, D., Dobbins, M., Rouse, M., Sibbald, S., Edwards, N. (2012). The use of tacit and explicit knowledge in public health: A qualitative study. Implementation Science, 7:20. doi:10.1186/1748-5908-7-20.  Available at: http://www.implementationscience.com/content/pdf/1748-5908-7-20.pdf. This article is designated as highly accessed by the journal.

• Peirson, L., Ciliska, C., Dobbins, M., Mowat, D. (2012). Building capacity for evidence informed decision making in public health: A case study of organizational change. BMC Public Health, 12:137. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-137.  Available at:  http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/12/137. This article is designated as highly accessed by the journal. (4111 to June 13, 2012).

Current Research Projects:

• Decision Pending (submitted April 2014)
  Funding Agency:  Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute, Prevention Research Grant
  Amount:  $582,862
  Support Period:  August 2014 – July 2018
  Title:  Supporting evidence-informed public health decision making in cancer prevention
  Investigators:  Dobbins, M., Akhtar-Danesh, N., Levinson, A., Traynor, R.

• Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health / National Cancer Institute (NIH/NCI)
  Amount:  $300,988
  Support Period: September 2013-August 2018
  Title: Mentored Training for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Cancer
  Investigators: Brownson, R., Colditz, G.A., Kreuter, M.W., Proctor, E.K., Pfund, C., Dobbins, M.

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Funding Agency: Hamilton Academic Health Sciences Organization Innovation Fund (HAHSO)
  Amount: $ 191,735
  Support Period: Apr 2012- Mar 31, 2014
  Title: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Enhanced Caregiver Support versus Usual Care for Managing Older Heart Failure Patients at Hospital Discharge                          
  Investigators: Demers, C., Archer, N.P., Gwadry-Sridhar, F., Keshavjee, K., Patterson, C., McKelvie, R.S., Goeree, R., Dobbins, M., Thabane, L., Heckman,G.

Email dubbels@mcmaster.ca

Primary Area of Research:

• Technology and aging 
• Software for our healthy aging population 
• What considerations hould be designed into user interface for different age cohorts?
• Mild cognitive impairement, dementia, or other diagnoses related to sensorimotor skills, attention, or memory 

Recent Publications:

• CFP: Special Issue. Games for the Elderly, and Representation of Aging in Video Game

Current Research Projects:

• NSERC EGP #469097-14: Can games be used to improve spatial reasoning?
• NSERC EGP #477442-15: Development of Life Review Software for Early Stage Alzheimer’s Patients

Other Information:

Brock Dubbels examines issues related to scaling user interface across different screen sizes, with emphasis on applications for gaming software. Specialties include game design, psychometrics, cognition, behavioral change, and social learning. Honors include a Fulbright Fellowship at the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology on the use of simulation software for learning; an NIH Fellowship at for quality of life studies of organ transplant recipients; Internships at Xerox PARC and Oracle Corporation; and research associate at the Center for Cognitive Science at the University of Minnesota. He teaches course work on games and cognition, and specializes in games for health interventions, training, and game design for return on investment (ROI).

Email qiyin@mcmaster.ca Call (905) 525-9140 x 24227 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Optical imaging and sensing technology development for biomedical and environmental applications

Current Research Projects:

• Sensing system technology for smart home/room

Affiliated Research Groups:

• The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), senior member
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Optical Society of America (OSA)
• Electrochemical Society (ECS)
• Chinese Optical Society (COS) - senior member

Email robert@mcmcaster.ca Call 905 525 9140 ext. 27408

Primary Area of Research:

• Design thinking including systems thinking and integrative thinking
• Engineering design pedagogy
• Computer aided design
• The future of the engineering profession
• Automotive design and aging
• Sustainability in engineering design
• Innovation through engineering design

Current Research Projects:

• 2012 – 2014
  AUTO21
  Evaluating the Onroad Performance of Older Drivers: Innovations to Enhance Safety
  $26,400

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• 2012 – 2013
  Labarge Donation
  Innovations in Vehicle Design that Promote Safety and Usability in an Aging Society
  Optimal Aging Opportunities Fund
  $195,000

• 2013
  Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
  Innovations in automobile design for an aging population
  Leaders Opportunity Fund (LOF)
  $400,000

Affiliated Research Groups:

• Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO)
• American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
• Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education (PACE)
• Centre for Innovation in Complex Care
• General Motors
• School of Rehabilitations Science

Email krh@mcmaster.ca Call 905.525.9140 ext. 23011

Primary Area of Research:

• Cognitive Psychology
• Psycholinguistics
• Language Production
• Speech Errors
• Language Disorders
• Cognitive Neuropsychology
• Medical Decision Making
• Language and Health
• Linguistics
• Communications
• Cognitive Science

Email kaasal@mcmaster.ca Call 905.525.9140 Ext. 22291 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Gerontology
• Pain
• Palliative care
• Evidence-based practice
• Advanced practice nursing
• Family caregiving
• Program evaluations
• Long term care
• Dementia care

Recent Publications:

• Brazil, K., Kaasalainen, S., Williams, A. & Dumont, S. (2014). A comparison of support needs between rural and urban family caregivers providing palliative care. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 31(1), 13-19

• Kaasalainen, S., Hadjistavropoulos, T., Zwakhalen, S., Akhtar-Danesh, N. & Verreault, R. (2012). A comparison between behavioral and verbal report pain assessment tools for use with residents in long term care. Pain Management Nursing, 14(4), e106-e114.

• Kaasalainen, S. (2013). Advancing the pain management agenda in long term care. Pain Management, 3(3), 1-3.

• Kaasalainen, S., Brazil, K., Williams, A., Wilson, D., Willison, K., Marshall, D., & Taniguchi, A. (2012). Barriers and enablers to providing palliative care in rural communities: A nursing perspective. The Journal of Rural and Community Development, 7(4), 4-19.

• Donald, F., Martin-Misener, R., Carter, N., Donald, E.E., Kaasalainen, S., Wickson-Griffiths, A., ... & DiCenso, A. (2013). A systematic review of the effectiveness of advanced practice nurses in long-term care. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 69(10), 2148-2161. 

• Kaasalainen, S., Brazil, K. & Kelley, M.L. (2014). Building capacity in palliative care for personal support workers in long term care through experiential learning. International Journal of Older People Nursing, 9(2), 151-158.

• D’Hondt, A., Kaasalainen, S., Schindel Martin, L. & Prentice, D. (2012). Bathing residents with dementia in long term care: Critical incidents described by personal support workers. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 7(4), 253–263.

• Ellis, W., Kaasalainen, S., Baxter, P. & Ploeg, J. (2012). Medication management for nurses working in long-term care. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 44(3), 128 –149.

• Marcella, J., Jayanthini, N., Kelley, M.L., Heckman, G., D’Elia, T., Kaasalainen, S., ... & Demers, C. (2012). Understanding organizational context and heart failure management in long term care homes in Ontario, Canada. Health, 4(Special Issue 1), 725-734.

• Newhouse, I., Heckman, G., Harrison, D., D’Elia, T., Kaasalainen, S., Strachan, P. & Demers, C. (2012). Barriers to the management of heart failure in ontario long-term care homes: An interprofessional care perspective. Journal of Research in Interprofessional Practice and Education, 2(3), 278-295.

• Kaasalainen, S., Brazil, K., Akhtar-Danesh, N., Coker, E., Ploeg, J., Donald, F., ... & Papaioannou, P. (2012). The evaluation of an interdisciplinary pain protocol in long-term care. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 13(7), 664.e1-664.e8. 

• Brazil, K., Brink, P., Kaasalainen, S., Kelly, M.L. & McAiney, C. (2012). Knowledge and perceived competence among nurses caring for the dying in long-term care homes. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 18(2), 77-83.

• Kaasalainen, S., Dolovich, L., Papaioannou, A., Holbrook, A., Lau, E., Ploeg, J., ... & Emily, A. (2011). The process of medication management for older adults with dementia. Journal of Nursing and Healthcare of Chronic Illness, 3(4), 407-418.

• Kaasalainen, S., Stewart, N., Middleton, J., Knezacek, S., Hartley, T., Ife, C. & Robinson, L. (2011). The development and psychometric evaluation of the Pain Assessment in the Communicatively Impaired (PACI) tool: Part 1. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 17(8), 387-391.

• Kaasalainen, S., Stewart, N., Middleton, J., Knezacek, S., Hartley, T., Ife, C. & Robinson, L. (2011). The development and psychometric evaluation of the Pain Assessment in the Communicatively Impaired (PACI) tool: Part 2. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 17(9), 431-438.

• Kaasalainen, S., Strachan, P., Brazil, K., Willison, K., Marshall, D., Dolovich, L., ... Demers, C. (2011). Managing palliative care for patients with advanced heart failure. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 43(3), 38-57.

• Kaasalainen, S., Brazil, K., Wilson, D., Willison, K., Marshall, D., Taniguchi, A. & Williams, A. (2011). Palliative care nursing in rural and urban community settings: A comparative analysis. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 17(7), 344-352.

• Hadjistavropoulos, T., Janzen Claude, J.A., Hadjistavropoulos, H.D., Marchildon, G.P., Kaasalainen, S., Gallagher, R. & Beattie, B.L. (2011). Stakeholder opinions on a transformational model of pain management in long-term care. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 37(7), 40-51.

• Evers, C., Ploeg, J. & Kaasalainen, S. (2011). Case study of the attitudes and values of nursing students toward caring for older adults. Journal of Nursing Education, 50(7), 404-409.

• Kaasalainen, S., Brazil, K., Coker, E., Ploeg, J., Martin-Misener, R., Donald, F., ... & Burns, T. (2010). An action-based approach to improving pain management in long-term care. Canadian Journal on Aging, 29(4), 503–517.

• Kaasalainen, S., Williams, J., Hadjistavropoulos, T., Thorpe, L., Whiting, S., Neville, S., Tremeer, J. (2010). Creating bridges between researchers and long term care homes to promote quality of life for residents. Qualitative Health Research, 20(12), 1689–1704.

• Brazil, K., Kaasalainen, S., Ploeg, J. & Marshall, D. (2010). A study on moral distress experienced by health care professionals who provide home-based palliative care. Social Science & Medicine, 71(9), 1687-1691.

• Williams, J., Kaasalainen, S., Hadjistavropoulos, T., Scudds, R., Thorpe, L., Neville, S., ... & Andersen, D. (2010). A qualitative investigation of injurious falls in long-term care: perspectives of staff members. Disability and Rehabilitation, 33(5), 423-432. 

• Kaasalainen, S., Martin-Misener, R., Donald, F., DiCenso, A., Carter, N., Baxter, P. (2010). The nurse practitioner role in pain management in long-term care. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 66(3), 542–551.

• Coker, E., Papaioannou, A., Kaasalainen, S., Turpie, I., Dolovich, L., & Taniguchi, A. (2010). Nurses’ perceived barriers to optimal pain management in older adults on acute medical units. Applied Nursing Research, 23(3), 139-46.

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• 2013-2014: Duggleby, W. (PI), Anderson, J., Baxter, S., Berry, P., Cooper, D., Fainsinger, R., Fassbender, K., Fraser, K., Ghosh, S., Goodridge, D., Hallstrom, L. Kaasalainen, S., Sandra, K., Keating, N. Kemmer, K., Mann, A., MacLeod, R., Nekolaichuk, C., Pesut, B., Robinson, C., Salas, A., Swanson, S., Swindle, J., Watanabe, S., Whitfield, K., Williams, A., Woytkiw, T. Which way from here? Navigation Competencies for the Care of Older Rural Adults at the End of Life. $23,500 CIHR Planning grant.

• 2012-2013. Principal Investigator. Moving the pain management in older adults agenda forward through the development of a national network and consensus of key research priorities. PIs: Kaasalainen S & Zacharias R. Co-investigators: Hadjistavropoulos T, Verreault R. CIHR Planning Grant, $24, 925.

• 2011-2014: Co-investigator.  Les soins palliatifs et de fin de vie dans la démence: Évaluation d'un programme interdisciplinaire et multidimensionnel d'organisation des soins en milieu d'hébergement [Palliative and end of life in dementia: Evaluation of an interdisciplinary, multi-dimensional progam of care]. PIs: Verreault R & Arcand M; Co-Investigators: Aubin M, Bedard, A, Carmichael P, Charbonneau, C, Durand P, Hadjistavropoulos T, Kaasalainen S, Marcoux H, Savoie M, Sevigny A. CIHR, $588,306.

• 2010-2015: Co-Investigator. Partnerships in Dementia Care Alliance: Assessing the Process of Culture Change in Dementia Care within Diverse Long-term Care Settings. PI: Sherry Dupuis, Co-Investigators: McAiney C, Kaasalainen S, Ploeg J, D’Avernas J, LeClair K, Ray K, Ladouceur D, McWilliam C, Smale B, Westley F, DeWitt L & Go A. SSHRC, $999,347.

• 2009-2014: Co-Investigator.  Choosing, Using and Losing Medications in Older Adults: A Research Training Program Bridging Biosciences, Clinical, Population Health, and Health Policy Research. PI: L Dolovich; Co-Investigators: Raina P, Holbrook A, Levine M, Thabane L, Kaczorowski J, Papaioannou A, Goeree R, Tarride JE, Kaasalainen S, Pullenayegum E, Oremus M, Agarwal G, Rangachari PK, Brown E, Singh G, Willison D, Beyenne J, MacKinnon N. CIHR (STIHR Grant) November 10, 2008, $1,781,941.

• 2009-2014: Co-Principal Investigator. Improving Quality of Life for Elderly People Who are Dying in LTC Homes. Co-PIs: Kelley ML  & Kaasalainen S; Co-Investigators: S Habjan, K. Brazil, E. Wiersma, C. McAiney, S. Wolfson. SSHRC, $998,340.

• 2008-2013: Co-Investigator. Research and Community Alliance for Quality of Life in Long Term Care (The QOL Team). PI: Hadjistavropoulos T; Co-Investigators: Juurlink B, Whiting S, Alfano D, Martin R, Scudds R, Thorpe L, Lix L, Kaasalainen S, Sharpe D, Malloy D. Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation, $2,408,501

Affiliated Research Groups:

• Centre on Aging and Health at the University of Regina

• Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing

• Gerontology Nurses Association

• College of Nurses of Ontario

• Canadian Pain Society

• International Association for the Study of Pain

• Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario

• Gerontological Nursing Association

• Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association

Email lettsl@mcmaster.ca Call (905) 525-9140 ext.27816 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Interprofessional team integration in primary health care
• Creating supportive environments with older adults
• Participatory research
• Occupational therapy and health promotion
• Chronic disease self-management
• Evidence-based occupational therapy practice

Recent Publications:

• Richardson, J., Loyola-Sanchez, A., Sinclair, S., Harris, J., Letts, L., MacIntyre, N., …. Martin Ginis, K. (2014). Self-management interventions for chronic disease: A systematic scoping review. Clinical Rehabilitation, 28(11), 1067-1077. DOI: 10.1177/0269215514532478

• Donnelly, C., Brenchley, C., Crawford, C., & Letts, L. (2014). The emerging role of occupational therapy in primary care. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 81(1), 51-61. DOI:10.1177/0008417414520683

• Donnelly, C., Letts, L., Klinger, D., & Shula, L. (2014). Supporting knowledge translation through evaluation. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 29(1), 36-61. DOI: 10.3138/cjpe.29.1.36

• Douglas, A., Letts, L., Eva, K., & Richardson, J. (2012). Use of the Cognitive Performance Test for identifying deficits in hospitalized older adults. Rehabilitation Research and Practice, Article ID: 638480, 1-10 DOI:10.1155/2012/638480

• Douglas, A., Letts, L., Eva, K., & Richardson, J. (2012). Measurement of harm outcomes in older adults after hospital discharge: Reliability and validity. Journal of Aging Research, Article ID: 150473, 1-7. DOI:10.1155/2012/150473

• Letts, L., Edwards, M., Berenyi, J., Moros, K., O’Neill, C., O’Toole, C., & McGrath, C. (2011). Using occupations to improve quality of life, health and wellness, and client and caregiver satisfaction for persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias: An evidence based review. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 65, 497–504. DOI: 10.5014/ajot.2011.002584

• Letts., L., Minezes, J., Edwards, M., Berenyi, J., Moros, K., O’Neill, C., & O’Toole, C. (2011). Effectiveness of interventions designed to modify and maintain perceptual abilities in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias: A review of evidence. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 65, 505–513. DOIi: 10.5014/ajot.2011.002592

• Vrkljan, B. H., McGrath, C. E., & Letts, L. (2011). Assessment tools for evaluating fitness to drive: A critical appraisal of evidence. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 78, 80-96.

• Douglas, A., Letts, L. & Richardson, J. (2011). A systematic review of accidental injury from fire, wandering and medication self-administration errors for older adults with and without dementia. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 52, e1-e10. DOI:10.1016/j.archger.2010.02.014

• Richardson, J., Letts, L., Chan, D., Stratford, P., Hand, C., Price, D., et al. (2010). Rehabilitation in a primary care setting for persons with chronic illness: A randomized controlled trial. Primary Health Care Research and Development, 11, 382-395. DOI:10.1017/S1463423610000113 

Current Research Projects:

• January 2015- December 2018
  Integrating Rehabilitation Principles into Integrated Self-Management: A Health Strategy for Chronic Disease and Aging
  Richardson, J., Chan, D. (Co-PIs),  Letts, L.,Mangin, D., Donnelly, C., Wojkowski, S., Loyola-Sanchez, A., & Sanford, S.
  Health Research Foundation Academic Interdisciplinary Team Research Grant
  $200,000
  
  
• January 2015-December 2015
  "Do Live Well" in the community: Translating a new approach to healthy aging
  Letts, L., Moll, S. & Gewurtz, R. with Clark, P. (Active Living Coalition of Older Adults)
  CIHR –Institute of Aging Voluntary Sector Partnership Initiative
  $10,000

• October 2013-September 2016
  Understanding Episodic Disability: A Longitudinal Study of Aging with HIV
  Solomon, P. E., O’Brien, K. K., Nixon, S. A., Letts, L. J., Baxter, L. N., Jose, M. G., & Zack, E.
  Canadian Institutes of Health Research; Priority Announcement: HIV/AIDS Res Initiative - Health Services/Population Health Stream
  $230,763

• April 2013 – March 2016
  PHC linking with Community Agencies: Keeping patients with multiple complex conditions healthy and at home.
  Dolovich, L., Agarwal, G., Valaitis, R., Reid, G., Ryan, B. L., Ploeg, J., Liddy, C., Goeree, R., Richardson, J., & Letts, L.
  Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Health System Research Fund.
  $445,194

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• January 2013-December 2014
  Detecting and Addressing Pre-Clinical Disability
  Richardson, J., Letts, L., Chan, D., Thebane, L., & Siu, H.
  Labarge Optimal Aging Initiative, McMaster University
  $220,000

• November 2013 – October 2014
  Application of a Next-Generation Healthy Living Guide: Optimizing Successful Aging through Integrated Knowledge Translation
  Letts, L., Moll, S. (co-PIs), Gewurtz, R., Krupa, T., Lariviere, N., Law, M., & Levasseur, M.
  CIHR, Planning Grant, Priority Call in Aging
  $25,000

• October 2013 – September 2014
  Establishing Occupational Therapy Performance Indicators in a Primary care Setting: A Delphi Study
  Leclair, L., Wener, P., Hand, C., Letts, L., & Donnelly, C.
  Rehabilitation Research Grant. University of Manitoba.
  $19,646.60

• September 2013 – August 2014
  Development and Implementation of an Occupation-Based Falls Prevention Program in Primary Care
  Donnelly, C., Boudreau, M. L., Mitchell, B., Priestley, K., Letts, L., Garand-Last, I.
  Ontario Society of Occupational Therapists Research Fund (OSOTRF) & Queen’s Fund for Scholarly Research and Creative Work and Professional Development, Queen’s University
  $10,000 (OSOTRF: $5,000; Queen’s fund: $5,000)

•  July 2013 – June 2014
  Helping Hamiltonians through Occupational and Physiotherapy Engagement (H2OPE) – Feasibility and Acceptability of the MAC H2OPE Clinic
  dal Bello-Haas, V., Wojkowski, S., Letts, L., Shimmell, L., Richardson, J.
  Saint Elizabeth Research Grant for Community Based Projects, Physiotherapy Foundation of Canada.
  $5,000

Affiliated Research Groups:

• North American Primary Care Research Group

• Community Campus Partnerships for Health

• College of Occupational Therapists on Ontario

• Canadian Association on Gerontology

• World Federation of Occupational Therapists

• Ontario College of Occupational Therapists

• Ontario Society of Occupational Therapists

• Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists

Email lovegrove@bell.net Call (905) 730-0441 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Self-care for the Caring Professional (including students)
• Mental Health
• Seniors and Caregivers
• Hospice Palliative Nursing Care
• Curriculum Development
• Community and Mental Health Nursing
• Community Development and Capacity Building
• Stress management

Other Information:

Everyone has a story to tell. As a practicing registered nurse with more than thirty years experience working in acute, critical, and community care settings, I have heard many stories from seniors and caregivers who feel alone and overwhelmed. Sensing that what most of these people want is to be heard and to belong, I am working with this population to help them find creative and practical ways to tell their stories while building a base of resilience and support in themselves. Presently I am facilitating Life Process Transformation™, a sixteen-week program created by Viola Fodor, M.Ed., that invites participants to learn how to take care of themselves—in body, mind, and spirit, so that they can care for others. I am a recipient of an Associated Medical Services (AMS) Phoenix ‘Call to Caring’ Fellowship, co-sponsored by McMaster University’s School of Nursing Collaborative Program, which looks to bring meaningful self-care to people’s lives. In a Fall 2013 program funded by Brant United Way community impact dollars and in collaboration with the Alzheimer Society of Brant, participants explored the importance of honest self-examination, quieting the mind, and nurturing the inner self.  Janet Lovegrove, RN, BScN, MSc

Email mreid@mcmaster.ca Call 905.525.9140 ext.22306 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Older adults
• Family caregivers
• Home and community care
• Evaluation and translation of health care interventions
• Health services research
• Home and community care
• Intervention design and evaluation
• Economic evaluation
• Interprofessional collaboration
• University-community partnerships
• Chronic disease prevention and management
• Health promotion and disease prevention
• Uptake and spread of research evidence

Recent Publications:

• Greuneir, A., Markle-Reid, M., Fisher, K., Reimer, H., & Ploeg, J. (2016). Comorbidity burden and health services use in community-living older adults with diabetes mellitus: A retrospective cohort study. Canadian Journal of Diabetes, 40, 35-42.

• Isaranuwatchai, W., Markle-Reid, M., & Hoch, J.S. (2015). Adjusting for baseline covariates in net benefit regression: How you adjust matters. PharmacoEconomic, 33(10), 1083-1090. DOI: 10.1007/s40273-015-0287-6

• Ploeg, J., Markle-Reid, M., Davies, B., Higuchi, K., Gifford, W., Bajnok, I., ... & Bookey-Bassett, S. (2014). Spreading best practices for home care of older adults: a grounded theory study. Implementation Science, 9(1): 1-17. DOI: 10.1186/s13012-014-0162-4

• Markle-Reid, M., McAiney, C., Forbes, D., Thabane, L., Gibson, M., Browne, G., Peirce, T., Busing, B., & Hoch, J. (2014). An interprofessional nurse-led mental health promotion intervention for older home care clients with depressive symptoms. BMC Geriatrics, 14(62), 1-23. Available at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2318/14/62

• Ploeg, J., Fraser, K., Matthew-Maich, N., Markle-Reid, M., Kaasalainen, S., McAiney, C., ... Emili, A. (2014). Managing multiple chronic conditions: Perceptions of older adults, caregivers and providers. Gerontologist, 54(Suppl 2), 509.

• Ploeg, J., Markle-Reid, M., Davies, B., Higuchi, K., Gifford, W., Bajnok, I., McConnell, H. (2014). A grounded theory of the process of spread of best practices in home care organizations. Gerontologist, 54(Suppl. 2), 526. 

• Ploeg, J., Markle-Reid, M., Matthew-Maich, N., Harris, L., Bender, D., Taberner, C., Ibrahim, S., Valaitis, R. (2014). My stroke team (MYST): A mobile technology solution to enhance interprofessional stroke care.  Gerontologist, 54(Suppl 2), 207.

• Markle-Reid, M., Dykeman, C., Reimer, H., Goodall, C., Boratto, L., Gagne, H., Bonomo, S., Bowes, C. (2014). Engaging community stakeholders in fall prevention for older adults: moving from research to action. Gerontologist, 54(Suppl 2), 753.

• Forbes, D., Blake, C., Thiessen, E., Finkelstein, S., Gibson, M., Morgan, D.G., Markle-Reid, M., & Culum, I. I couldn’t be in a better place: Dementia care knowledge sharing on a First Nation community. Canadian Journal on Aging.

• Forbes, D., Blake, C., Thiessen, E., Finkelstein, S., Gibson, M., Morgan, D.G., Markle-Reid, M., & Culum, I. (2013). Dementia Care Knowledge Sharing within a First Nations Community. Canadian Journal on Aging, 32(4), 360-374. DOI:10.1017/S0714980813000457.

• Forbes, D., Finkelstein, S., Blake, C., Gibson, M., Morgan, D., Markle-Reid, M., Culum, I., & Thiessen, E. (2012). Knowledge exchange throughout the dementia care journey by Canadian rural community-based health care practitioners, persons with dementia, and their care partners: An interpretive descriptive study. Rural and Remote Health. 12(4): 2201. Available http://www.rrh.org.au.

• Carroll, S.L., Markle-Reid, M., Ciliska, D., Connolly, S.J., & Arthur, H.M. (2012). Age and mental health predict early device-specific quality of life in patients receiving prophylactic implantable defibrillators. Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 28, 502-507.

• Markle-Reid, M., Browne, G., & Gafni, A. (2011). Nurse-led health promotion interventions improve quality of life in frail older home care clients: Lessons learned from three randomized trials in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 19(1), 118-131. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2753.2011.01782, 1-14.

• Markle-Reid, M., McAiney, C., Forbes, D., Thabane, L., Gibson, M., Browne, G., ... & Hoch, J. (2011). Reducing depression in older home care clients: Design of a prospective study of a nurse-led interprofessional mental health promotion intervention. BMC Geriatrics, 11(1), 1-21. DOI:10.1186/1471-2318-11-50.

• Markle-Reid, M., Orridge, C., Weir, R., Browne, G., Gafni, A., Lewis, M., ... & Roberts, J. (2011). Interprofessional stroke rehabilitation for stroke survivors using home care. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 38(2), 317-334.

• Carroll, S.L., Markle-Reid, M., Ciliska, D., Connolly, S.J., & Arthur, H.M. (2012). Age and mental health predict early device-specific quality of life in patients receiving prophylactic implantable defibrillators. Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 28(4), 502-507.

• Markle-Reid, M., Browne, G., & Gafni, A. (2011). Nurse-led health promotion interventions improve quality of life in frail older home care clients: Lessons learned from three randomized trials in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 19(1), 118-131. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2011.01782, 1-14.

• Markle-Reid, M., McAiney, C., Forbes, D., Thabane, L., Gibson, M., Browne, G., ... & Hoch, J. (2011). Reducing depression in older home care clients: Design of a prospective study of a nurse-led interprofessional mental health promotion intervention. BMC Geriatrics, 11(1), 1-21. DOI:10.1186/1471-2318-11-50.

• Markle-Reid, M., Orridge, C., Weir, R., Browne, G., Gafni, A., Lewis, M., ... & Roberts, J. (2011). Interprofessional stroke rehabilitation for stroke survivors using home care. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 38(2), 317-334. 

Current Research Projects:

• Kaasalainen, S., (PI), Hunter, P., dal Bello-Haas, V., Dolovich, L., Froggatt, K., Hadjistavropoulos, T., Markle-Reid, M., Ploeg, J., Thabane, L., van der Steen, J., Volicer, L. The Feasibility, Acceptability, and Effects of the Namaste Care Program for Residents with Advanced Dementia in Long Term Care. Funded by the Canadian Alzheimer’s Society (2015-2017), $119,780

• Dufour, S., Richardson, J. (Co-PIs), Ploeg, J., Markle-Reid, M., Thabane, L., McAiney, C., & Reimer, H. Moving up stream: Preventive approaches to preclinical mobility limitation for community-dwelling older adults. Labarge Optimal Aging Initiative,  McMaster University, $100,000 (April 2015- March 2017).

• Markle-Reid. M. Valaitis, R. (Co-PIs), Dufour, S., Ploeg, J., Akhtar-Danesh, N., Thabane, L., Gafni, A., Reimer, H., & Ibrahim, S. Strengthening community-based stroke care: A mixed-methods study to evaluate a mobile health solution. CIHR Catalyst Grant: e-Health Innovations, $92,241 (March 1, 2014 – Mar 31, 2017).

• Markle-Reid, M. (PI), Reimer, H., Dykeman, C., Boratto, L., Goodall, C., Ploeg, J. Collaborative leadership and knowledge translation practices used by Public Health to engage community service providers in fall prevention. Public Health Ontario, $75,000 (April 1, 2014 – March 31, 2015). 

• Markle-Reid, M., Upshur, R., (Co-PIs), Ploeg, J., Reimer, H., Fraser, K., Triscott, J., Kaasalainen, S., Gafni, A., Thabane, L., Akhtar-Danesh, N., Gruneir, A., Bender, D., Sadowski, C., Ganann, R. A client-driven intervention to support self-management among community-living older adults with Type 2 Diabetes and MCC. Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Health System Research Fund Program Award, $517,486 (April 1, 2014 – March 31, 2016). 

• Markle-Reid, M., Ploeg, J., Valaitis, R. Upshur, R., Gafni, A., Kothari, A., Thabane, L. The centre for research in community interventions to promote optimal aging at home – Phase 2. Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Health System Research Fund, $2,957,598 (Submitted September 28, 2015).

• Markle-Reid, M., Ploeg, J., (Co-PIs), Green, T., Lui, L., Reimer, H., Gafni, A., Akhtar-Danesh, N., Bender, D., Sadowski, C., Matthew-Maich, N., Thabane, L., Patterson, C., Taberner, C., & Rojas-Fernandez, C. A community navigation and rehabilitation intervention for stroke survivors with MCC.  Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Health System Research Fund Program Award, $467,611 (April 1, 2014 – March 31, 2016). 

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Markle-Reid, M. (PI), Dykeman, C., Boratto, L., Gagne, H., Nalayeh, S., Goodall, S., Scott, K., Mak, A., Bowes, C., Orr-Shaw, S., Barrington, H., & Filer, C. Engaging community-based organizations in evidence-based fall prevention for older adults: Moving from research to action. Public Health Ontario, $100,000 (October 2011- September 2013).

• Ploeg, J., Markle-Reid, M. (Co-PIs), Davies, B., Higuchi, K., McConnell, H., & Bajnok, I. Spreading nursing best practice guidelines in community-based settings: Enhancing evidence-based care of older adults. Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Nursing Secretariat and Research Unit, Nursing Research Fund, $200,000 (April 1, 2011-March 31, 2014).

• Forbes, D. (PI), Gibson, M., Markle-Reid, M., & Morgan, D. The process of developing evidence-informed dementia care decisions through knowledge exchange in rural settings. The Alzheimer Society of Canada, Canadian Nurses Foundation, CIHR Institute of Aging and Parkinson Society of Canada. $192,063 (March 1, 2010- February 28, 2013).

• Markle-Reid, M. (PI), Upshur, R., Gruneir, A., Kirkconnell, R., Hedley, M., Kaasalainen, S., Gafni, A, Akhtar-Danesh, N., Ploeg, J., Marzouk, S., & Tracy, S. Improving diabetes care for frail community-dwelling older adults with comorbid chronic conditions: A pilot project. Ontario Research Coalition: A Coalition of Institutes & Centres on Health and Aging, $35,000 (March 1, 2011- June 30, 2013).

• McCainey, C. (PI), Markle-Reid, M., & Gafni, A. Extended evaluation of the first link demonstration project. Alzheimer Society of Ontario, $100,516 (2009-2013).

• Markle-Reid, M. (PI), Kirkconnell, R., Gruneir, A., Gafni, A, Akhtar-Danesh, N., Kaasalainen, S., Ploeg, J., Marzouk, S., Hedley, M. Improving diabetes care for frail community-dwelling older adults with comorbid chronic conditions. CIHR Health Services and Policy Research, Meetings Planning and Dissemination Grant, $25,000 (October 2011-September 2012).

• Ploeg, J., Markle-Reid, M. (Co-PIs), McAiney, C., Kaasalainen, S., Akhtar-Danesh, N., Gafni, A., Heckman, G., Hirst, S. P., Williams, A., Brookman, C., Emili, A., Fraser, K., & Harvey, D. Improving primary healthcare for frail older persons and their caregivers. CIHR Meetings Planning and Dissemination Grant, $25,000 (October 2011 - September 2012). 

Affiliated Research Groups:

• College of Nurses of Ontario

• Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (Community Health Nursing and Research Interest Groups)

• Canadian Association on Gerontology

• Canadian Association for Nursing Research

• Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Lambda Pi Chapter, University of Toronto

• National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly

• Gerontological Nursing Association

• Ontario Home Care Research Network

Email mcaineyc@mcmaster.ca Call 905.525.1155 ext. 36722 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Quality of care and quality of life for older adults
• Individuals living with dementia and their care partners

Current Research Projects:

• Dufour, S., Richardson, J. (Co-PIs), Ploeg, J., Markle-Reid, M., Thabane, L., McAiney, C., Reimer, H. Moving Up Stream: Preventive Approaches to Preclinical Mobility Limitation for Community-Dwelling Older Adults. Labarge Optimal Aging Initiative, McMaster University. $100,000. April 1- March 2017.

• Bergman H, Vedel I, Strumpf E, Pakzad S, Moore A, Rochon P, Bronskill S, Couturier Y, McAiney C, Lapointe L (Co-Lead Investigators for Team 19), Aubin M, Borges da Silva R, Kroger E, St-Laurent D, Emond V, Bourque P-E, Lee L, Gruneir A , Molnar F, Anderson G , Dalziel W, Seitz D, Rodriguez C, Baxter P, Dupuis S . Integrating dementia patient care into the health care system. CIHR- Canadian Consortium on Neurodegenerative disease and Aging (CCNA). $1,200,000. October 1, 2014 – September 30, 2019.

• Lewis, M., Saperson, K., McAiney, C., Bieling, P., Baxter, J., Wright, S., LeClair, K., Van Bussell, L. Enhancing Learning through a Community of Practice for Seniors Mental Health. Innovation Award from the Department of Psychiatry. $4300, 2014-2015.

• J. Ploeg, M. Markle-Reid (Co-PIs), D. Bournes, C. Anderson, M. Farrell, S. Paetkau, N. Akhtar-Danesh, S. Baptiste, D. Bender, W. Duggleby, A. Emili, S. Feldman, D. Forbes, K. Fraser, A. Gafni, R. Ganaan, S. Ghosh, M. Gibson, L. Griffith, A. Gruneir, S. Hirst, S. Kaasalainen, J. Keefe, N. Matthew-Maich, C. McAiney, C. Patterson, S. Peacock, C. Rojas-Fernandez, C. Sadowski, J. Triscott, R. Upshur, R. Valaitis, A. Williams. Innovative Community-Based Approaches to Promote Optimal Aging for Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions and their Caregivers. CIHR, Community-Based Primary Healthcare Team Grant, $2,500,000, April 1, 2013 – March 31, 2018.

• M. Markle-Reid and J. Ploeg    (Co-PIs), D. Bender, D. Forbes, K. Fraser, A. Gafni, R. Ganaan, L. Griffith, A., Gruneir, S. Kaasalainen, N. Matthew-Maich, C. McAiney, C. Patterson, C. Rojas-Fernandez, C. Taberner, L. Thabane, J. Triscott, R. Upshur, R. Valaitis, A. Williams. Centre for Research in Community Interventions to Promote Optimal Aging at Home. Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Health System Research Fund Program Awards, $3,265,903, April 1, 2013 – March 31, 2016.

• Dupuis, S., McAiney, C.A. (Co-PIs), Ploeg, J., Ray, K., de Witt, L. Kaasalainen, S., LeClair, JK., McWilliams, C., Smale, B., Westley, F., D’Avernas, J., Go, A., Ladouceur, D., Nolan, M. Assessing the process of culture change within different long-term care settings. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council – Community-University Research Alliances, $998,996. 2010-2015.

Email mcbride@mcmaster.ca Call 905.525.9140. Ext.23707

Primary Area of Research:

• Global Public Policy
• Globalization and the Canadian/Nation State
• Canadian Political Economy
• North American Governance and Political Economy
• Comparative Public Policy

Recent Publications:

• Ayhan, B. and McBride, S.  (2015) Global Crisis and Social Policy in Semi-Peripheral Europe: Comparing Ireland, Portugal and Greece in McBride, Mahon and Boychuk (Eds.) After '08: Social Policy and the Global Financial Crisis (pp237-253). Vancouver: UBC Press.
• McBride, S. (2015) Neoliberalism in Question? in McBride, Mahon and Boychuk (Eds.) After '08: Social Policy and the Global Financial Crisis (pp 21-39). Vancouver: UBC Press.

• McBride, S. (2015) The Economics of Austerity in K. Farnsworth and Z. Irving (Eds). Social Policy in an Age of Austerity  (pp. 67- 85). Bristol: Policy Press.

• McBride, S., Mahon, R. and Boychuk, G. eds. (2015) After '08: Social Policy and the Global Financial Crisis. Vancouver: UBC Press.

• McBride, S. and Whiteside, H. (2011). Private Affluence, Public Austerity: Economic Crisis and Democratic Malaise in Canada. Halifax: Fernwood.

Email namasia@mcmaster.ca View Website

Primary Area of Research:

speech-language pathology, swallowing, swallowing disorders, caregiver burden, long-term care, dementia, older adults, geriatrics, malnutrition, dehydration, exercise, rehabiliation

Recent Publications:

Varindani Desai, R. & Namasivayam-MacDonald, A.M. (e-pub ahead of print). A preliminary survey of practice patterns among US-based speech-language pathologists managing dysphagia in dementia. Perspectives of ASHA Special Interest Groups. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_PERSP-19-00152

Shune, S. E., Resnick, B., Zarit, S. H., & Namasivayam-MacDonald, A. M. (2020). Creation and Initial Validation of the Caregiver Analysis of Reported Experiences with Swallowing Disorders (CARES) Screening Tool. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 29(4), 2131-2144. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_AJSLP-20-00148

Namasivayam-MacDonald, A.M., Riquleme, L.F & Molfenter, S.M. (2020). Establishing a method for quantifying spinal curvature during videofluoroscopic swallow studies: Applying the modified Cobb angle to healthy young and older adults. OBM Geriatrics. 4(3):13; doi:10.21926/obm.geriatr.2003129

Namasivayam-MacDonald, A. M., & Riquelme, L. F. (2020). Speech-language pathology management for adults with COVID-19 in the acute hospital setting: initial recommendations to guide clinical practice. American journal of speech-language pathology, 29(4), 1850-1865. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_AJSLP-20-00096

Shune, S.E. & Namasivayam-MacDonald, A.M. (2020). Dysphagia-Related Caregiver Burden: Moving Beyond the Physiological Impairment. Perspectives of ASHA Special Interest Groups. 5:1282-1289 https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_PERSP-20-00067

Current Research Projects:

- A Survey of Speech-Language Pathologists: Determining the Engagement of Clinicians with Caregivers

- The Effects of Whole-Body Exercise on Swallowing Function in Older Adults with Dementia

- The Pathophysiology of Swallowing Impairment in People Recovering from COVID-19 Infection

- Validating the Caregiver Analysis of Reported Experiences with Swallowing Disorders (CARES) in Populations with Neurodegenerative Disease

- Exploring the Prevalence and Predictors of Swallowing Difficulties within the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging

- Understanding the Pathophysiology of Swallowing in Persons with Dementia

Past Grant/Research Projects:

2020 CO-PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR. National Institute of Health. $135,000. Determining the Impact of Swallowing Impairment on People Recovering from Severe COVID-19 Infection. Awarded to Catriona Steele, Ashwini Namasivayam-MacDonald (Co-PI), Azadeh Yadollahi, Mark Bayley, Steven Pong, and Emily Plowman. Research Grant.

2020 PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR. Drummond Foundation. $25,000. The Effects of Whole-Body Exercise on Swallowing Function in Older Adults with Dementia. Awarded to Ashwini Namasivayam-MacDonald (PI), Ada Tang and Segio Mazzadi. Research Grant.

2019 CO-INVESTIGATOR. University of Waterloo International Research Partnership Grant. Development of a Feasible Hydration Intervention for Residential Living. $45,000. Awarded to Heather Keller, Ashwini Namasivayam-MacDonald (Co-I), Janet Mentes, George Heckman, Christina Lengyel, Susan Slaughter and Minn Yoon. Research Grant.

2019 CO-PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR. Speech-Language & Audiology Canada (SAC) Clinical Research Grants. Development of a Survey about Dysphagia and Oral Health Management in Long-Term Care. $3,500. Awarded to Rebecca Cliffe Polacco, Ashwini Namasivayam-MacDonald (Co-PI), Rebecca Affoo and Catriona Steele. Research Grant.

2019 CO-PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR. Adelphi University International Faculty Development Grant. Forging an international clinical partnership in Uganda. $5,240. Awarded to Ashwini Namasivayam-MacDonald (Co-PI) and Melissa Randazzo. Clinical Grant.

2018 PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR. ASHA Advancing Academic-Research Careers. Understanding pathophysiology of swallowing in persons with dementia. $5,000. Awarded to Ashwini Namasivayam-MacDonald (PI). Training/Research Grant.

2017 PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR. Adelphi Faculty Development Grant. Swallow function and perception of swallowing difficulties in patients after strokes, brain injuries and with Parkinson’s disease. $2,540. Awarded

Affiliated Research Groups:

McMaster Institute for Research on Aging

Other Information:

Ashwini Namasivayam-MacDonald is a clinically trained speech-language pathologist and an Assistant Professor in the Speech-Language Pathology Program with the School of Rehabilitation Science at McMaster University. Her current research focuses on understanding the physiological aspects of disordered swallowing in older adults. More specifically, her work centers on building a comprehensive and collaborative approach to dysphagia management in older adults, especially with those living with dementia. Her research also explores swallowing-related quality of life, management of dysphagia related caregiver burden and dysphagia management in long term care. In 2020 she was awarded the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Early Career Contributions in Research Award.

Email newbold@mcmaster.ca Call 905.525.9140 ext.27948 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Immigration
• Health
• Population issues
• Aging
• Environment & health

Recent Publications:

• Newbold, K.B., Watson, S., & Ellaway, A. (2014). Emigration of Scottish Steelworkers to Canada: Impacts on Social Networks. Population, Space and Place, 21(8), 720-734 DOI: 10.1002/psp.1852

• Newbold, K.B. (2013). Place and residence attachments in Canada's older population. In J. Percival (Ed.). Return Migration in Later Life. Bristol: Policy Press.

• Newbold, K.B. & Meredith, T. (2012). Migration among Canadian Seniors: Implications for Public Policy. IRPP Study 36. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy                                                                                       

Current Research Projects:

Disability in the immigrant population

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• CIHR  Canada’s Blood Futures (A. Paez, PI)

• CIC Perceptions of discrimination in health services experienced by immigrant minorities in Ontario

• CIHR  Cultural influences on family caregiving in palliative end-of-life care (A. Williams, PI)

• CIHR  Journey to Health: An Investigation of the Social Production of Health and Access to Health Care Within Hamilton’s Refugee Community (PI, with S. Birch, J. Eyles, & K. Wilson)

Affiliated Research Groups:

• Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups
• Canadian Association on Gerontology
• Gerontological Society of America
• Ontario Association of Social Workers
• Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers
• North Hamilton Community Health Center, St. Joseph’s Immigrant Women’s Cente
• Statistics Canada
• Citizenship and Immigration Canada

Email oremusm@mcmaster.ca Call 905.525.9140 ext. 22437 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Population and public health
• Aging
• Dementia
• Alzheimer’s disease
• Epidemiology
• Population health
• Chronic disease
• Caregiving
• Knowledge transfer
• Questionnaire design and administration
• Systematic reviews
• Measuring drug efficacy
• Health economics
• Health policy

Recent Publications:

• Randhawa, H., Jiwa, A., & Oremus, M. (2015). Identifying the Components of Clinical Vignettes Describing Alzheimer's Disease or Other Dementia: a Scoping Review. BMC medical Informatics and Decision Making, 15(1): 1-9. 

• Hazzan, A.A., Ploeg, J., Shannon, S., Raina, P., & Oremus, M. (2013). Association between caregiver quality of life and the care provided to persons with Alzheimer's disease: protocol for a systematic review. Systematic Reviews, 2(1), 1-5.

• Oremus, M., Postuma, R., Griffith, L., Balion, C., Wolfson, C., Kirkland, S. … & Raina, P. (2013). Validating chronic disease ascertainment algorithms for use in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). Canadian Journal on Aging, 32(3): 232-239.

• Oremus, M. & Tarride, J.E. (2012). Modeling cost-effectiveness of pharmaceuticals in Alzheimer’s disease. Expert Rev Pharmacoecon Outcomes Res, 12(3): 275-277. 

• Oremus, M., Santaguida, P., Walker, K., Wishart, L.R., Siegel, K.L., & Raina, P. (2012). Studies of stroke rehabilitation therapies should report blinding and rationalize use of outcome measurement instruments. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 65(4): 368-74.

• Oremus, M., Tarride, J.E., Raina, P., Thabane, L., Foster, G., Goldsmith, C., Clayton, N. (2012). The general public’s willingness-to-pay for tax increases to support unrestricted access to an Alzheimer’s Disease medication. Pharmacoeconomics, 30(11):1085-1095. 

• Xie, F., Oremus, M., & Gaebel, K. (2012). Measuring health-related quality-of-life for Alzheimer’s disease using the general public. Quality of Life Research, 21(4): 593-601.  

• Tarride, J.E., Oremus, M., Pullenayegum, E., Clayton, N., & Raina, P. (2011). How does the Canadian general public rate moderate Alzheimer's disease? Journal of Aging Research. Doi:10.4061/2011/682470.

Current Research Projects:

Using the General Public as Proxy to Rate Health-related Quality-of-life for Persons with Alzheimer's Disease (CIHR); Willingness-to-pay for Alzheimer's Disease Medications in Canada: Patients, Caregivers, and the General Public (CIHR)

Affiliated Research Groups:

• Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging
• Ontario Interdisciplinary Council on Aging and Health

Email paezha@mcmaster.ca Call (905) 525-9140 ext. 26099 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Spatial analysis
• Travel behavior
• Health geography

Recent Publications:

• Drackley, A., Newbold, K.B., Páez, A., & Heddle, N.M. (2012). Forecasting Ontario’s Blood Supply and Demand. Transfusion, 52(2): 366-374. DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2011.03280.x

• Morency, C., Páez, A., Roorda, M.J., Mercado, R., & Farber, S. (2011). Distance traveled in three Canadian cities: Spatial analysis from the perspective of vulnerable population segments. Journal of Transportation Geography, 19(1): 39-50.

• Mercado, R., Páez, A., & Newbold, K.B. (2010). Transport policy and the provision of mobility options in an aging society: A case study of Ontario, Canada. Journal of Transport Geography, 18(5): 649-661.

• Páez, A., Mercado, R.G., Farber, S., Morency, C., & Roorda, M. (2010). Accessibility to health care facilities in Montreal Island: An application of relative accessibility indicators from the perspective of senior and non-senior residents. International Journal of Health Geographics, 9(52): 1-15. DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-9-52.

• Roorda, M.J., Páez, A., Morency, C., Mercado, R., & Farber, S. (2010). Trip generation of vulnerable populations in three Canadian cities: A spatial ordered probit approach. Transportation, 37(3): 525-548. DOI: 10.1007/s11116-010-9263-

Current Research Projects:

• Walk the Talk: Transforming the Built Environment to Enhance Mobility in Seniors; M. Ashe, S. Bryan, P.J. Clarke, L.D. Frank (Co-PI), H.A. McKay (Co-PI), C. Mitton, A. Páez, R.A. Rhodes, V. Scott, J. Sims-Gould (Emerging Team; CAD 1.5 million over 6 years: 2010-2016)

• Recent work includes studies on accessibility, spatial filtering, aging and mobility, spatial analysis of qualitative variables, transportation and social exclusion, the influence of the built and social environments on travel behavior, social networks and decision making, telework adoption, and blood donor behavior and trends.

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) - Enhancing the Mobility and Health of Older Adults; M. Ashe, P.J. Clarke, H.A. McKay (PI), A. Páez, J. Sims-Gould, M. Winters (Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Planning Grants; CAD 25,000 over 1 years: 2011)

Email ploegj@mcmaster.ca Call 905.525.9140 ext. 22294 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Community health services for older adults and their caregivers 
• Chronic Conditions 
• Elder Abuse 
• Evidence Informed Practice 
• Health Promotion and Disease Prevention 
• Evaluation of best practice guideline implementation, sustainability and spread 
• Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research 
• Gerontology

Recent Publications:

• Grenier, A., Markle-Reid, M., Fisher, K., Reimer, H., & Ploeg, J. [In press]. Co-morbidity burden and health services use in community-living older adults with diabetes mellitus: A retrospective cohort study. Canadian Journal of Diabetes. 

• Hazzan, A.A., Shannon, H., Ploeg, J., Raina, P., & Oremus, M. (2014). Association between caregiver quality of life and the care provided to persons with Alzheimer's Disease: Systematic review. Advances in Alzheimer's Disease, 3, 44-53. 

• Wickson-Griffiths, A., Kaasalainen, S., Ploeg, J., McAiney, C. (2014). A review of advance care planning programs in long-term care homes: Are they dementia friendly? Nursing Research and Practice, Article ID 875897, 1-11. DOI: 10.1155/2014/875897. 

• Valaitis, R., Longaphy, J., Nair, K., Agarwal, G., Griffith, L., Ploeg, J. ... & Dolovich, L. (2014). Persona-scenario exercise for codesigning primary care interventions. Canadian Family Physician, 60, 294-296. 

• Coker, E., Ploeg, J., & Kaasalainen, S. (2014). The effect of programs to improve oral hygiene outcomes for older residents in long term care: A systematic review. Research in Gerontological Nursing, 7(2), 87-100.

• Dupuis, S., McAiney, C., Fortune, D., Ploeg, J., de Witt, L. (2014). Theoretical foundations guiding culture change: The work of the Partners in Dementia Care Alliance. Dementia, 1-21. DOI:10.1177/1471301213518935. 

• Benjamin, K., Edwards, N., Ploeg, J., & Legault, F. (2014). Barriers to physical activity and restorative care for residents in long-term care: A review of the literature. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 22(1), 154-165. DOI: 10.1123/JAPA.2012-0139. 

• Ploeg, J., Denton, M., Tindale, J., Hutchison, B., Brazil, K., Akhtar-Danesh, N., ... & Millen Plenderleith, J. (2013). Older adults' awareness of community health and support services for dementia care. In G. LoBiondo-Wood & J. Haber (Eds), Nursing research in Canada: Methods, critical appraisal, and utilization 3rd ed. (pp. 438-452). Toronto: Elsevier.  

• Cressman, G., Ploeg, J., Kirkpatrick, H., Kaasalainen, S., & McAiney, C. (2013). Uncertainty and alternate level of care: A narrative study of the older patient and family caregiver experience. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 45(4), 12-29. 

• Sangster-Gormley, E., Carter, N., Donald, R., Martin-Misener, R., Ploeg, J., Kaasalainen, S., ... & Wickson-Griffiths, A. (2013). A value added benefit of nurse practitioners in long-term care settings: Increased nursing staff's ability to care for residents. Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership, 26(3), 24-37. 

• Kaasalainen, S., Ploeg, J., McAiney, C., Schindel Martin, L., Donald, F., Martin-Misener, R., ... & Sangster-Gormley, E. (2013). Role of the nurse practitioner in providing palliative care in long term care homes. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 19, 477-485. 

• Ploeg, J., Kaasalainen, S., McAiney, C., Martin-Misener, R., Donald, F., Wickson-Griffiths, A., ... & Taniguchi, A. (2013). Resident and family perceptions of the nurse practitioner role in long-term care: A qualitative descriptive study. BMC Nursing, 12(1), 1-11. DOI: 10.1186/1472-6955-12-24 

• Mores, G., Whiteman, R., Knobl, P., Ploeg, J., Cahn, M., Klaponski, L., & Lindley, A. (2013). Pilot evaluation of an education and support program for family caregivers of stroke survivors. Canadian Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, 35(2), 18-26. 

• Coker, E., Ploeg, J., Kaasalainen, S., & Fisher, A. (2013). Assessment of rigour in published nursing intervention studies that use observational methods. The Qualitative Report, 18(67), 1-23. 

• Gifford, W., Davies, B. L., Ploeg, J., Eldred, S., & Bajnok, I. (2013). Moving knowledge to action: A qualitative study of the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario Advanced Clinical Practice Fellowship Program. Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership, 26(1), 32-57. doi:10.12927/cjnl.2013.23302 

• Ploeg, J., Lohfeld, L., & Walsh, C. (2013). What is elder abuse? Voices from the margin: The views of underrepresented Canadian older adults. Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, 25(5), 396-424. DOI:10.1080/089466566.2013.780956 

• Hazzan, A., Ploeg, J., Shannon, H., Raina, P., & Oremus, M. (2013). Association between caregiver quality of life and the care provided to persons with Alzheimer's disease: Protocol for a systematic review. Systematic Reviews, 2(1), 1-5. DOI: 10.1186/2046-4053-2-17 

• Matsuoka, A., Guruge, S., Koehn, S., Beaulieu, M., & Ploeg, J. (2012/2013). Moving forward: Prevention of abuse of older women in the post-migration context in Canada. Canadian Review of Social Policy, 2(68/69), 107-120. 

• Coker, E., Ploeg, J., Kaasalainen, S., & Fisher, A. (2013). A concept analysis of oral hygiene care independent older adults in institutional settings. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 69(10), 2360-2371. DOI:10.1111/jan.12107. 

• de Witt, L., Campbell, L., Ploeg, J., Kemp, C. L., & Rosenthal, C. (2013). “You’re saying something by giving things to them”: Communication and family inheritance. European Journal of Ageing, 10(3), 181-189. Doi:10.1007/s10433-013-0262-z. 

• Matthew-Maich, N., Ploeg, J., Jack, S., & Dobbins, M. (2012). Leading on the frontlines with passion and persistence: A necessary condition for guideline uptake. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 22(11-12), 1759-1770. Doi: 10.1111.jocn.12027 

• Kaasalainen, S., Brazil, K., Akhtar-Danesh, N., Coker, E., Ploeg, J., Donald, F., ... & Papaioannou, A. (2012). The evaluation of an interdisciplinary pain protocol in long term care. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 13(7), 664.e1-664.e8. DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2012.05.013.
  

• Ellis, W., Kaasalainen, S., Baxter, P., & Ploeg, J. (2012). Medication management for nurses working in long-term care. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 44(3), 128-149. 

• Allen, D., Ploeg, J., & Kaasalainen, S. (2012). The relationship between emotional intelligence and clinical teaching effectiveness in nursing faculty. Journal of Professional Nursing, 28(4), 231-240. DOI:10.1016/j.profnurs.2011.11.018 

• Matthew-Maich, N., Ploeg, J., Dobbins, M., & Jack, S. (2012). Supporting the uptake of nursing guidelines: What you really need to know to move nursing guidelines into practice. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 10(2), 104-115. DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-6787.2012.00259.x 

• Benson, G., Martin, L., Ploeg, J., & Wessell, J. (2012). Longitudinal study of emotional intelligence, leadership and caring in undergraduate nursing students. Journal of Nursing Education, 51(2), 95-101. DOI: 10.3928/01484834-20120113-01. 

• Brazil, K., Maitland, J., Ploeg, J., & Denton, M. (2012). Identifying research priorities in long-term care homes. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 13(1), 84.e1-4. DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2011.04.018 

• Brazil, K., Bainbridge, D., Ploeg, J., Krueger, P., Taniguchi, A., & Marshall, D. (2012). Family caregiver views on patient-centred care at the end-of-life. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 26(3), 513-518. DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2011.00956.x 

• Bainbridge, D., Brazil, K., Krueger, P., Ploeg, J., Taniguchi, A., & Darnay, J. (2011). Evaluating program integration and the rise in collaboration: A case study of a palliative care network. Journal of Palliative Care, 27(4), 270-278. 

• Kaasalainen, S., Dolovich, L., Papaioannou, A., Holbrook, A., Lau, E., Ploeg, J., ... & Emili, A. (2011). The process of medication management for older adults with dementia. Journal of Nursing and Healthcare of Chronic Illness, 3(4), 407-418. DOI:10.1111/j.1752-9824.2011.01114.x 35.

• Tindale, J., Denton, M., Ploeg, J., Lillie, J., Hutchison, B., Brazil, K., ... & Plenderleith, J. (2011). Social determinants of older adults’ awareness of community support services. Health and Social Care in the Community, 19(6), 661-672. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2524.2011.01013.x 36.

• Larin H., Benson, G., Martin, L., Wessel, J., Williams, R., & Ploeg, J. (2011). Examining change in emotional-social intelligence, caring and leadership in health professional students. Journal of Allied Health, 40(2), 96-102.
  

• Evers, C., Ploeg, J., & Kaasalainen, S. (2011). Case study of the attitudes and values of nursing students towards caring for older adults. Journal of Nursing Education, 50(7), 404-409. DOI: 10.3928/01484834-20110429-03 38.

• Higuchi, K.S., Davies, B.L., Edwards, N., Ploeg, J., & Virani, T. (2011). Implementation of clinical guidelines for adults with asthma and diabetes: A three year follow-up evaluation of nursing care. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 20(9-10), 1329-1338. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03590.x 

• Walsh, C.A., Olson, J., Ploeg, J., Lohfeld, L., & MacMillan, H. (2011). Elder abuse and oppression: Voices of marginalized elders. Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, 23(1), 17-42. DOI:10.1080/08946566.2011.534705 

• Bach, V., Ploeg, J., & Black M. (2011). Nursing roles in end-of-life decision making in critical care settings. In H. J. Streubert and D.R Carpenter (Eds), Qualitative research in nursing: Advancing the humanistic imperative 5th ed. (pp. 154-166). NY: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 

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Current Research Projects:

• May 2014- April 2016 
  Understanding Structures, Processes and Outcomes Related to Effective Leaders in Long-Term Care Homes. 
  K. McGilton (PI), J. Ploeg, K. Corazzini, V. Boscart, D. Prentice, W. Wodchis
  Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
  $447,337

• March 2014-February 2015 
  Strengthening Community-Based Stroke Care: A Mixed Methods Study to Evaluate a Mobile Health Solution. 
  M. Markle-Reid (NPI), S. Daub (Knowledge User), N. Akhtar-Danesh, D. Bender, S. Dufour, A. Gafni, T. Green, S. Ibrahim, N. Matthew-Maich, J. Ploeg, H. Reimer, C. Taberner, L. Thabane & R. Valaitis. 
  CIHR Catalyst Grant for e-Health Innovations
  $92,241

• February 2014-March 2015 
  Collaborative Leadership and Knowledge Translation Practices Used by Public Health to Engage Community Service Providers in Fall Prevention. 
  J. Brenner (PI), A. Andrews, M. Campbell, L. Roberts, C. Dykeman, C. Goodall, S. Orr-Shaw, S. Bonomo, M. Markle-Reid, J. Ploeg, H. Reimer.
  Public Health Ontario Locally Driven Collaborative Projects (LDCP): Cycle 3
  $75,000

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• October 2013-September 2014 
  Developing and Validating a Screen for Autism Spectrum Disorders in Later Life (SALL)
  P. Raina (PI), J. Dergal, J. Ploeg, K. Stoddart, D. Streiner, P. Szatmari. 
  Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Bridge Funding 
  $100, 000

• April 2013-April 2014 
  Knowledge Translation in Dementia Care: It Takes a Community. 
  C. Ward-Griffin (PI), V. Boscart, S. Dupuis, M. Kloseck, C. McAiney, J. Orange, J. Ploeg, E. Wiersma, C. Wong. 
  CIHR, Dissemination Events 
  $24,498

• April 2013-April 2018 
  Innovative Community-Based Approaches to Promote Optimal Aging for Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions and their Caregivers 
  J. Ploeg, M. Markle-Reid (PIs), D. Bournes, C. Anderson, M. Farrell, S. Paetkau, N. Akhtar-Danesh, S. Baptiste, D. Bender, W. Duggleby, A. Emili, S. Feldman, D. Forbes, K. Fraser, A. Gafni, R. Ganaan, A. Garnett, S. Ghosh, M. Gibson, L. Griffith, A. Gruneir, S. Hirst, S. Kaasalainen, J. Keefe, N. Matthew-Maich, C. McAiney, C. Patterson, S. Peacock, C. Rojas-Fernandez, C. Sadowski, J. Triscott, R. Upshur, R. Valaitis, A. Williams. 
  CIHR, Community-Based Primary Healthcare Team Grant 
  $2,500,000

• April 2013-April 2016 
  Centre for Research in Community Interventions to Promote Optimal Aging at Home
  M. Markle-Reid and J. Ploeg (PIs), D. Bender, D. Forbes, K. Fraser, A. Gafni, R. Ganaan, L. Griffith, A., Gruneir, S. Kaasalainen, N. Matthew-Maich, C. McAiney, C. Patterson, C. Rojas-Fernandez, C. Taberner, L. Thabane, J. Triscott, R. Upshur, R. Valaitis, A. Williams. 
  Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Health System Research Fund Program Awards 
  $3,265,903

• April 2013-March 2016 
  Primary Healthcare Linking with Community Agencies: Keeping Patients with Multiple Complex Conditions Healthy and at Home
  Dolovich, L., Agarwal, G. (PIs), Valaitis, R., Reid, G., Ryan, B.L., Ploeg, J., Liddy, C., Goeree, R., Richardson, J., Letts, L. 
  Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, Health System Research Fund 
  $445,194

• 2010-2015 
  Partnerships in Dementia Care Alliance: Assessing the Process of Culture Change in Dementia Care Within Diverse Long-term Care Settings. 
  S. Dupuis, C. McAiney (PIs), S. Kaasalainen, J. Ploeg, J. D’Avernas, K. LeClair, K. Ray, D. Ladouceur, C., McWilliam, B. Smale, F. Westley, L. deWitt, A. Go. 
  SSHRC, Community University Research Alliance program 
  $999,347

Affiliated Research Groups:

• Home Care Groups
• Community Care Groups
• Long Term Care
• Ministry of Health

Email scottdm@mcmaster.ca Call 905.525.9140 ext. 24953 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Active travel and physical activity 
• Activity-based approaches to travel analysis and modeling 
• Built environment 
• Geographic information systems for transportation 
• Global positioning system (GPS) for travel data acquisition 
• Integrated land-use and transportation models 
• Spatial analytical issues 
• Time geography

Recent Publications:

• Clark, A.F. & Scott, D.M. (2013). The social environment and walking for travel: a case study for Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Journal of Transport Geography, 31: 278-285. 

• Papinski, D. & Scott, D.M. (2013). Route choice efficiency: an investigation of home-to-work trips using GPS data. Environment and Planning A, 45: 263-275. 

• Millward, H., Spinney, J. & Scott, D.M. (2013). Active-transport walking behavior: destinations, durations, distances. Journal of Transport Geography, 28: 101-110. 

• Scott, D.M. & He, S.Y. (2012). Modeling constrained destination choice for shopping: a GIS-based, time-geographic approach. Journal of Transport Geography, 23: 60-71. 

• Scott, D.M., Dam, I., Páez, A. & Wilton, R.D. (2012). Investigating the effects of social influence on the choice to telework. Environment and Planning A, 44: 1016-1031. 

• Spinney, J.E.L., Millward, H. & Scott, D.M. (2012). Walking for transport versus recreation: a comparison of participants, timing and locations. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 9: 153-162.

Current Research Projects:

• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Understanding and Modeling Route Choice Decisions 
  PI: Darren M. Scott; Social Sciences

• Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Understanding Barriers to Participation in Sport and Other Physical Activities 
  PI: Darren M. Scott 
  Co-PI: Antonio Páez

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation (NSHRF) 
  Promoting Active Lifestyles and Neighborhoods: A Time Geography Approach 
  PI: Hugh Millward 
  Co-PI: Darren M. Scott; 

• Geomatics for Informed Decisions (GEOIDE) 
  Transportation Implications of Canada’s Aging Population, 
  PI: Darren M. Scott 
  Other Investigators: Pavlos Kanaroglou, Eric Miller, K. Bruce Newbold, Antonio Páez, Clarence Woudsma

Email sekuler@mcmaster.ca Call 905 525 9140 x27944 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Perceptual organization
• Face and object recognition
• Pattern vision 
• Motion perception
• Perceptual learning and plasticity
• Aging and vision
• Neuroimaging
• Autism

Recent Publications:

• Fiacconi, C.M., Harvey, E.C., Sekuler, A.B., & Bennett, P.J. (2013). The influence of aging on audio-visual temporal order judgments. Experimental Aging Research, 39(2), 179-93.

• Roudaia, E., Farber, L.E., Bennett, P.J., & Sekuler, A.B. (2011). The effects of aging on contour discrimination in clutter. Vision Research, 51(9), 1022-32.

• Govenlock, S.W., Taylor, C.P., Sekuler, A.B., & Bennett, P.J. (2010). The effect of aging on the spatial frequency selectivity of the human visual system. Vision Research, 50(17), 1712-9.

• Pilz, K.S., Bennett, P.J. & Sekuler, A.B. (2010). Effects of aging on biological motion discrimination. Vision Research, 50(2), 211-19

• Roudaia, E., Bennett, P.J., Sekuler, A.B., & Pilz, K.S. (2010). Spatiotemporal properties of apparent motion perception and aging. Journal of Vision, 10(14):5, 1-15.

• Rousselet, G.A., Gaspar, C.M., Pernet, C.R., Husk, J.S., Bennett, P.J., & Sekuler, A.B. (2010). Healthy aging delays scalp EEG sensitivity to noise in a face discrimination task. Frontiers in Perception Science, 1(Article 19), 1-14. DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00019

• Govenlock, S.W., Taylor, C.P., Sekuler, A.B., & Bennett, P.J. (2009). The effect of aging on the orientational selectivity of the human visual system. Vision Research, 49(1), 164-72. 

Email strachan@mcmaster.ca Call 905-525-9140 ext 26157 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• End-of life care and planning
• Advanced heart failure

Recent Publications:

• Cosman, T.L., Arthur, H.M., Bryant-Lukosius, D., Strachan, P.H. (2015). Reliability of vascular access site bruise measurement. Journal of Nursing Measurement, 23(1), 179-200.
  
  
• You, J., Downar, J., Fowler, R.A., Lamontagne, F., Ma, I., Jayaraman, D., Kryworuchko, J., Strachan, P.H., Ilan, R., Nijjar, A.P., Neary, J., Shik, J., Brazil, K., Patel, A., Wiebe, K., Albert, M., Palepu, A., Nouvet, E., Roze des Ordons, A., Sharma, N., Abdul-Razzak, A., Jiang, X., Day, A., Heyland, D.K. on behalf of the Canadian Researchers at the End of Life Network  (CARENET). (2015). Barriers to goals of care discussions with seriously ill hospitalized patients and their families: a multi-center survey of healthcare providers. JAMA Internal Medicine. (published online first on Feb 2, 2015). DOI:10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.7732.
  
  
• Currie, K., Strachan, P.H., Spaling, M., Harkness, K., Barber, D., Clark, A.M. (2014). The importance of interactions between patients and healthcare professionals for heart failure self-care: A systematic review of qualitative research into patient perspectives. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, [Epub ahead of print 08/2014]. DOI: 10.1177/1474515114547648.

• Strachan, P.H., Kaasalainen, S., Horton, A., Jarman, H., D-Elia, T., Van Der Horst, M., Newhouse, I, Kelley, ML., McCainey, C., McKelvie, R., Demers, C., Heckman, G. (2014). Managing heart failure in the long-term care setting: nurses’ experiences in Ontario, Canada. Nursing Research, 63(5); 357-365. DOI: 10.1097/NNR.0000000000000049. Nursing Research, 63(5); 357-365. DOI: 10.1097/NNR.0000000000000049.
  
  
• Heckman, G. A. , Boscart, V., McKelvie, R., D’Elia, T., Osman, O., Kaasalainen, S., Kelly, M.L,  McAiney, C., Stolee, P., Strachan, P.H. Perspectives of primary care providers on the diagnosis and management of heart failure in long-term care homes (2014). Canadian Journal on Aging. First published online 07 August 2014. DOI:10.1017/S0714980814000245.
  
  
• Clark, A.M., Spaling, M., Harkness, K., Spiers, J., Strachan, P.H.,Thompson, D.R., Currie, K. (2014). Determinants of effective heart failure self-care: A systematic review of patients and caregivers’ perceptions. (”Editor’s Choice” award.). Heart. 100 (9), 716–721. Published Online First Feb. 18, 2014 as doi:10.1136/heartjnl-2013-304852.Banerjee,  A.T., Boyle, M.H., Anand, S.S., Strachan, P.H., Oremus, M. (2014). Factors facilitating the implementation of church-based heart health promotion programs in canada for older adults: A qualitative study guided by the precede-proceed model. American Journal of Health Promotion. 2014 May 12. [Epub ahead of print].
  
  
• Strachan, P.H., Currie, K., Harkness, K., Spaling, M., Clark, A.M. (2014). Context matters in HF self-care: A qualitative systematic review. Journal of Cardiac Failure. 20(6), 448-455. Epub 2014 Apr 13. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2014.03.010.
  
  
• Strachan, P.H., Joy,C., Costigan, J., Carter, N. Development of a practice tool for community-based nurses: The Heart Failure Palliative Approach to Care (HeFPAC) (2014). European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 3(2), 139-146. First published online before print on January 15, 2014. doi: 10.1177/1474515113519522.1. (Summarized on MDLinx.com in April 2014).
  
  
• Harkness, K., Spaling, M., Currie, K., Strachan, P., Clark, A.M. (2014). A systematic review of patient heart failure self care strategies: Self care process, adaptation and individualization. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. 2014 Mar 18. [Epub ahead of print]. DOI 10.1097/JCN.0000000000000118.
  
  
• Buck, H., Harkness, K., Wion, R., Carroll, S., Cosman, T., Kaasalainen, S., Kryworuchko, J., McGillion, M., O’Keefe-McCarthy, S., Sherifali, D., Strachan, P.H., Arthur, H.M. (2014). Caregivers’ contributions to heart failure self-care: a systematic review. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, first published online before print on January 6, 2014 as doi:10.1177/1474515113518434. 
  
  
• Strachan, P.H., Joy,C., Costigan, J., Carter, N. (2014, Apr). Development of a practice tool for community-based nurses: The Heart Failure Palliative Approach to Care (HeFPAC). European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 13(2), 139-146. First published online before print on January 15, 2014. DOI: 10.1177/1474515113519522.
  
  
•  Strachan, P.H., Kaasalainen, S., Horton, A., Jarman, H., D-Elia, T., Van Der Horst, M., Newhouse, I, Kelley, ML., McCainey, C., McKelvie, R., Demers, C., Heckman, G. (2014). Managing heart failure in the long-term care setting: nurses' experiences in Ontario, Canada. Nursing Research, 63(5); 357-365. DOI: 10.1097/NNR.0000000000000049.
  
  
•  Strachan, P.H., Currie, K., Harkness, K., Spaling, M., Clark, A.M. (2014). Context matters in HF self-care: A qualitative systematic review. Journal of Cardiac Failure, 20(6), 448-455. Epub 2014 Apr 13. DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2014.03.010. 
  
  
•  Clark, A.M., Spaling, M., Harkness, K., Spiers, J., Strachan, P.H., Thompson, D.R., Currie, K. (2014). Determinants of effective heart failure self-care: a systematic review of patients’ and caregivers’ perceptions.Heart, 100(9), 716–721. First Published Online Feb. 18, 2014. DOI:10.1136/heartjnl-2013-304852.
  
  
• Strachan, P.H. (2013).  Mrs. Jones Can’t Breathe: Can a Resilience Framework Help? In E. Hollnagel, J. Braithwaite, R. Wears (Eds.). Resilient Healthcare. Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing. 

Current Research Projects:

• Kaasalainen S, Costello A, Hunter P, Neves P, Sussman T, Thompson G, Venturato L. (Co-Principal Investigators); Co-investigators: Akhtar-Danesh N, Bourgeois-Guérin V, Chochinov H, dal Bello-Haas V, Duggleby W, Earl M, Goodridge D, Hadjistavropoulos T, Holtslander L, McCleary L, McClement S, O’Leary J, Papaioannou A, Parker D, Ploeg J, Sinclair S, Strachan P, Thorpe L, Touchette C, Trinidad G, You J, Young L. Partnering Together to Improve Palliative Care in Long Term Care. Co-funding from Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Partnerships in Health System Improvement; Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions; Manitoba Health Research Council; Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care; Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation, for $740,000. 2015-2018.
  
  
• Kaasalainen, S., Sussman, T., Neves, P., O’Leary, J., Akhtar-Danesh, N., Brazil, K., Bonifas, R., Bourgeois-Guérin, V., dal Bello-Haas, V., Earl, M., Kelley, M.L., McCleary, L., McKee, M., Papaioannou, A., Parker, D., Ploeg, J., Sinclair, S., Strachan, P., Thompson, G., Venturato, L., Wickson-Griffiths, A., You, J., Young, L. Improving palliative care in long term care homes using Participatory Action Research. Technology Evaluation in the Elderly Network (TVN). $607,520/2 years. 2 years. Jan 2015-Dec 2016.
  
  

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• You, J. (co-PI), Ross, H.J.,  MacIver, J., Downar, J., Demers, C., Strachan, P., Fowler, R., Heyland, D., Day, A., Giannetti, N., Clarke, B., Zeiroth, S., Mielniczuk, L., Toma, M., Ducharme, A. Decision-making about goals of care for hospitalized patients with Heart Failure (DECIDE-HF). Heart and Stroke Foundation (Ontario Provincial Office).  $70,000/1 year. July 2014-June 2015. 
  
  
• Strachan, P.H. Bridging Heart Failure and Hospice Palliative Care: Evaluation of the Heart Failure Palliative Approach to Care (HeFPAC) pocket guide for nurses. Hospice of Waterloo Region - HPC Consultation Services. 2014-2015. $5,000 
  
  
• Lingard, L., Arnold, M., Bates,J., Burge,F., Kimel, G., Marshall, D., McDougall, A., Schulz, V., Shadd, J., Stewart, M., Strachan, P.H., Tait, G., Palliative care on the heart failure care team: mapping patient and provider experiences and expectations. Canadian Institutes of Health Research. 2012-2014. $116,024
  
  

• Heyland, DK. (Scientific Director), Gramlich, L., Mourtzakis, M., Khursheed, J., Graham, T., Mutch, M., Duncan, A., Kutsogiannis, J., Pichora, D., Bryant, T., Tremblay, A., Rockwood, K., Bitritz, L., Newhouse, I., Fowler, R., Albert, M., Muscedere, J., Sinuff, T., Cook, D., Kumar, A., Dodek, P., Skrobik, Y., Meade, M., Lamontagne, F., Bagshaw, S., Cohen, R., Stajduhar, K., Kelley, M.L., Rodney, P., You, J., Johnson, A., Brazil, K., Strachan, P.H., Kryworuchko, J., Kozak, J.F., Heckman, G., Barwich, D., Taylor, C., Jones, K., McKee, M., Yeates, K., Krahn, M., Baxter, S., Stockley, D.. (2012[July]-2017). Technology Evaluation in the Elderly Network (TECH VALUE NET). $23, 888, 157 (plus in-kind contributions $21,409,646).  Networks of Centres of Excellence. Role in grant: Co-applicant. Project member; Training Committee.

Affiliated Research Groups:

• Heart and Stroke Foundation
• Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association
• Canadian Virtual Hospice. 

Other Information:

Dr. Patricia Strachan is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing. Following her doctoral studies she completed a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship with the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. She was a post-doctoral trainee with the FUTURE Program for Cardiovascular Nurse Scientists, a CIHR Strategic Training Initiative aimed to develop capacity of cardiovascular nurse scientists in Canada. Her clinical background is in emergency, intensive care and adult medical-surgical nursing. Dr. Strachan is a member of the Training Committee for Technology Evaluation in the Elderly Network (TVN) a Canadian National Center of Excellence initiative represents the Heart and Stroke Foundation on the Quality End-of-Life Care Coalition of Canada.

Email vrkljan@mcmaster.ca

Primary Area of Research:

• Age and risk factors
• Aging process
• Quality of life and aging
• Technology use with older adults
• Driving rehab
• Community mobility

Recent Publications:

• Gish, J.A., & Vrkljan, B. (2016). Aging embodiment and the somatic work of getting into and out of a car. Journal of Aging Studies, 36, 33-46. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406515300645

• Marshall, S.C., Man-Son-Hing, M., Bédard, M., Charlton, J., Gagnon, S., Gélinas, I., ... & Vrkljan, B. (2013). Protocol for Candrive II/Ozcandrive, a multicenter prospective older driver cohort study. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 61, 245-252

• Zhan, J., Porter, M.M.,  Polgar, J., & Vrkljan, B. (2013). Older drivers' opinions of criteria that inform the cars they buy: A focus group study. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 61, 281-287.

• Hickey, A.J., Weegar, K., Kadulina, Y., Gagnon, S., Marshall, S., Myers, A., ... & Vrkljan, B. (2013). The impact of subclinical sleep problems on selfreported driving patterns and perceived driving abilities in a cohort of active older drivers. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 61, 296-303.

• Tuokko, H., Myers, A., Jouk, A., Marshall, S., Man-Son-Hing, M., Porter, M.M., ... & Vrkljan, B. (2013). Associations between age, gender, psychosocial and health characteristics in the Candrive II study cohort. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 61, 267-271.

• Rapoport, M.J., Naglie, G., Weegar, K., Myers, A., Crizzle, A., Vrkljan, B., ... & Marshall, S. (2013). The relationship between cognitive performance, perceptions of driving comfort and abilities, and self-reported driving restrictions among healthy older drivers. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 61, 288-295.

• Smith, A., Marshall, S., Porter, M., Ha, L., Bédard, M., Gélinas, I., & Vrkljan, B. (2013). Stability of physical assessment of older drivers over 1 year. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 61, 261-266.

• Vrkljan, B. & Anaby, D. (2011). What vehicle features are considered important when buying an automobile? An examination of driver preferences by age and gender. Journal of Safety Research, 42(1), 61-65

• Vrkljan, B., McGrath, C.E., & Letts, L.J. (2011). Assessment tools for evaluating fitness to drive: a critical appraisal of evidence. Canadian journal of occupational therapy/Revue canadienne d'ergothérapie, 78(2), 80-96.

• Bedard, M., Weaver, B., Man-Son-Hing, M., Classen, S., & CanDRIVE Investigators (including Vrkljan, B. listed alphabetically) (2011). The SIMARD screening tool to identify unfit drivers: Are we there now? Journal of Primary Care and Community Health, 2, 133-135.

• Vrkljan, B. (2011). Evaluating collaboration between older drivers and passengers during first-time use of an in-vehicle navigation system; Potential implications on driving safety. Educational Gerontology, 37(2), 133-135.

Current Research Projects:

• Project Title: Innovations in automobile design for an aging population 
  Investigators: Brenda Vrkljan and Robert Fleisig 
  Funding Agency: Canada Foundation for Innovation 
  Amount: $200,000 
  Funding Period: 2013-2015 

• Project Title: Evaluating the on-road performance of older drivers: Innovations to enhance safety. 
  Investigators: (Co-PIs). Vrkljan, B., Gélinas, I., Mazor, B. (PIs), Marshall, S., & Fleisig, R. 
  Funding Agency: AUTO21-Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE). 
  Amount: $202,976 
  Funding Period: 2012-2014

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Project Title: Driving-related screening, assessment, and referral practices of OTs treating older individuals experiencing mild cognitive impairment and dementia.
  Investigators: Korner-Bitensky, N. & Rapoport, M. (co-PIs). Vrkljan, B., Gelinas, I. (co-Investigators)
  Funding Agency: Edith-Strauss Rehabilitation Research (McGill University)
  Amount: $15,000
  Funding Period: 2012-2013

• Project Title: Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)
  Investigators: Raina, P., Wolfson, C. Kirkland, S. (Co-PIs), Vrkljan, B. et al. (1 of 160 Co-Investigators and Collaborators)
  Funding Agency: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
  Amount: $23,500,000
  Funding Period: 2008-2012

Affiliated Research Groups:

• CAA 
• Canadian Association of the 55+ (aka Canadian Association of Retired Persons)

Email awill@mcmaster.ca Call 905.525.9140 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Caregiving
• Caregiver-employees (CEs) - family caregivers who are also employed)
• Caregivers of multiple chronic conditions
• Caregiver-friendly workplace policies/practices,
• KT
• Therapeutic landscapes

Recent Publications:

• Williams, A., Donovan, R., Stajduhar, K., & Spitzer, D. (2015). Cultural influences on palliative family caregiving: Program/policy recommendations specific to the Vietnamese. BMC Research Notes, 8(1): 280. DOI: 10.1186/s13104-015-1252-3

• Lang, A., Toon, L., Cohen, S.R., Stajduhar, K., Griffin, M., Fleiszer, A.R., Easty, T., & Williams, A. (2015). Client, Caregiver, and Provider Perspectives of Safety in Palliative Home Care: A Mixed Method Design. Safety in Health. 1(1): 3. DOI:10.1186/2056-5917-1-3.

• Donovan, R. & Williams, A. (2014). Caregiving as a Vietnamese Tradition:  “It’s like eating, you just do it”. Health and Social Care in the Community (Impact Factor 1.151), 23(1):79-87. DOI: 10.1111/hsc.12126.

• Kaasalainen, S., Brazil, K., Williams, A., Wilson, D.M., Willison, K., Marshall, D., ... & Phillips, C. (2014). Nurses’ Experiences Providing Palliative Care to Individuals Living in Rural Communities: Aspects of the Physical Residential Setting. Rural and Remote Health (Impact Factor 0.868), 14(2): 2728. 

• Duggleby, W., Cooper, D., Leipert, B., Wilson, D., Williams, A., Marshall, D. & Goodridge., D. (2012). Development of a “Changes Toolkit” for Rural Older Palliative Patients and Their Family Caregivers. Journal of Rural and Community Development 7(4): 62-75.

Affiliated Research Groups:

• Caregiver organizations (Canadian Caregiver Coalition)
• Work site partners(public institutions and manufacturers)
• Health & safety partners(the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety)

Email jyou@mcmaster.ca Call 905.525.9140 ext. 21858 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• End-of-life Communication and Decision-making
• Clinical Epidemiology
• Health Services Research
• Diagnostic Imaging
• Diagnostic Testing

Recent Publications:

• You, J.J., Fowler, R.A., Heyland, D.K., on behalf of the Canadian Researchers at the End of Life Network (CARENET). (2014). Just ask: discussing goals of care with patients in hospital with serious illness. CMAJ, 186(6), 425-32.

• Abdul-Razzak, A., You, J.J., Sherifali, D., Simon, J., & Brazil, K. (2014). ‘Conditional candour’and ‘knowing me’: an interpretive description study on patient preferences for physician behaviours during end-of-life communication. BMJ open, 4(10), e005653.

• Palmer, K.S., Agoritsas, T., Martin, D., Scott, T., Mulla, S., Miller, A.P., ... & You, J.J. (2014). Activity-based funding of hospitals and its impact on mortality, readmission, discharge destination, severity of illness, and volume of care: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS One, 9(10), e109975.

• Sinuff, T., Dodek, P., You, J.J., Barwich, D., Tayler, C., Downar, J., ... & Heyland, D. (2015). Improving end of life communication and decision-making: the development of a conceptual framework and quality indicators. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 49(6), 1070-1080
  

Past Grant/Research Projects:

Type:  Operating Grant
Source:  Ontario Academic Health Science Centre AFP Innovation Fund
Title:  “ACCEPT 360: defining strategies to improve the quality of end-of-life communication in acute care”
Amount:  $159,884/2 years
Role:  Principal investigator (JJ You)
Years:  2014-2016

Type:  Operating Grant
Source:  TECH VALUE NET (Technology Evaluation in the Elderly Network)
Title:  “Improving DECIsion‐making about goals of care for hospitalized, elDerly patiEnts:
a ‘multi‐incubator unit’ study (iDECIDE)”
Amount:  $504,246/2 years from TVN; $302,670/2 years in-kind from partners
Role:  Principal investigator (JJ You)
Years:  2014-2016

Type:  Operating Grant (Bridge Funding)
Source:  Heart and Stroke Foundation (Ontario Provincial Office)
Title:   “DECIsion-making about goals of care for hospitalizeD patiEnts with Heart
Failure (DECIDE-HF)”
Amount: $70,000/1 year
Role:  Co-principal investigator (JJ You)
Years:  2014-2015

Type:  Operating Grant
Source:  Technology Evaluation in the Elderly Network (TVN)
Title:  “Systematic scoping review and meta-analysis of end-of-life decision making tools and strategies”
Amount:  $49,750/1 year
Role:  Principal investigator (JJ You)
Years:  2014-2015

Other Information:

Dr. John You, MD MSc FRCPC, is a hospital-based general internist who received his MSc in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Toronto in 2005. He joined McMaster University in 2007 and is currently an Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine, and Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, and a member of the CLARITY (Clinical Advances Through Research and Information Translation) research group. His main clinical and scholarly interest is to improve the quality of end of life communication, decision-making, and care for seriously ill hospitalized patients and their families.

Dr. You is leading a CIHR-funded, multi-center study in Canada called DECIDE (DECIsion-making about goals of care for hospitalized meDical patients: A multicentre, mixed-methods study). He is also a member of and HHS site lead for the ACCEPT study team (Advance care planning evaluation in hospitalized elderly patients: a multicenter, prospective study), led by Dr. Daren Heyland, Queen's University, funded by CIHR and the Ontario AFP Innovation Fund. Dr. You is a network investigator for TECH VALUE NET (Technology evaluation in the elderly network), a recently funded Network of Centre of Excellence (NCE) which has received $22 million in tri-council funding over the next 5 years to study, as one of its major foci, the improvement of end of life communication and decision-making for seriously ill elderly patients. Dr. You is an executive member of CARENET (Canadian Researchers at the End of Life Network), an interdisciplinary network of health care professionals from across Canada who collaborate to improve palliative and end-of-life care (www.thecarenet.ca)

Email zeytino@mcmaster.ca

Primary Area of Research:

• Employer flexibility strategies and non-standard employment/flexible work arrangements (part- time, temporary/casual, contract, telework)
• Flexible work schedules (flex-time, compressed workweek, variable workweek and weekend work)
• Promotion, training, job satisfaction and retention issues
• Health sector human resources (nursing and home care focus)
• Human resource management issues in Turkey
• Occupational health (social organization of work, stress and musculoskeletal disorders)

Recent Publications:

• Zeytinoglu, I.U., Denton, M., & Plenderleith, J., 2011. Workplace violence and workers’ stress: The case of homecare workers in Ontario, Canada. In O. Manninen (ed), Work Among the Elderly: 55-69. Tampere, Finland: Kopijy vä (publisher). ISBN: 978-952-93-0123-2

• Mann, S.L., Cooke, G.B. and Zeytinoglu, I.U. 2011. ‘Workplace child care and elder care programs and employee retention’, Journal of Industrial Relations, 53(2): 248-254. 

• Zeytinoglu, I.U., Cooke, G.B. & Mann, S. 2010. ‘Employer Offered Family Support Programs and Voluntary and Involuntary Part-time Work’, Relations Industrielles/ Industrial Relations, 65(2): 177-195.

Current Research Projects:

• Home care and health & safety

• Task shifting in home care

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• 2012-2013
  Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, Healthy Work Environments Partnership and Innovation Fund (Knowledge Translation Grant)
  $238,700
  Promoting Healthy and Safe Living for Individuals and their Caregivers through Exercise- a Video Tool C. Brookman (PI, Consultant & Closing the Gap Healthcare Group), partners: O. Maharaj (TransCare Community Support Services), S. Ganguli (St. Clair West Services for Seniors) and R-M. Raymond- Simmons (Timiskaming Home Support/Soutien A Domicile); evaluation and research consultation: I. Zeytinoglu & M. Denton (McMaster University)

• 2005-2011
  SSHRC
  $2,500,000
  Social and Economic Dimensions of Aging Population II (SEDAP II) B. Spencer (PI), I. Zeytinoglu & 44 others (CIs)

Email rbarken@yorku.ca View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Life and work in home and long-term care settings
• Aging families and care arrangements
• Age-disability intersections
• Inequalities in aging
• Gender and aging
• Qualitative methodologies

Recent Publications:

Barken, R., & Davies, M.J. (Guest editors). (In Press). ‘Re-imagining the House of Old: Promising Practices in Canadian Long-term Residential Care.’ Journal of Canadian Studies.

Barken, R., Daly, T., & Armstrong, P. (In Press). Family Matters:The Work and Skills of Family Members in Long-Term Residential Care. Journal of Canadian Studies theme issue ‘Re-imagining the House of Old: Promising Practices in Canadian Long-term Residential Care.’

Barken, R., & Armstrong, P. (In Press). Skills for Long-term Residential Care: Exploring Complexities, Challenges, and Opportunities. Ageing International.

Barken, R. (2017). Reconciling Tensions: Needing Formal and Family/Friend Care but Feeling Like a Burden. Canadian Journal on Aging, 36(1), 81-96. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0714980816000672.

Grenier, A., Sussman, T., Barken, R., Bourgeois-Guérin, V., Rothwell, D. (2016) ‘Growing Old’ in Shelters and 'On the Streets’: The Experiences of Older People who are Homeless. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 59(6), 454-473. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01634372.2016.1235067.

Grenier, A., Barken, R., & McGrath, C. (2016) Homelessness and Aging: The Contradictory Ordering of ‘House’ and ‘Home.’ Journal of Aging Studies, 39, 73-80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2016.11.002

Grenier, A., Barken, R., Sussman, T., Rothwell, D., & Bourgeois-Guerin, V. (2016) Homelessness Among Older People: Assessing Strategies and Frameworks across Canada. Canadian Review of Social Policy, 74, 1-39.                                

Grenier, A., Barken, R., Sussman, T., Rothwell, D., Bourgeois-Guérin, V. A., & Lavoie, J.P. (2016) Literature Review of Homelessness and Aging: Suggestions for a Policy and Practice-Relevant Research Agenda. Canadian Journal on Aging, 35(1), 28-41. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0714980815000616.

Barken, R., Denton, M., Brookman, C., Zeytinoglu, I., & Plenderleith, J. Home Care Workers’ Skills in the Context of Task Shifting: Complexities in Care Work. (2015) Canadian Review of Sociology 52(3), 289-309. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cars.12078/abstract.

Denton, M., Zeytinoglu, I., Brookman, C., Plenderleith, J., & Barken, R. (2015) Task Shifting in the Provision of Home and Social Care: Implications for Quality of Care. Health & Social Care in the Community, 23(5), 485-492. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hsc.12168/abstract.

Barken, R. (2014) Caregivers’ Interpretations of Time and Biography: The Experiences of Caring for a Spouse with Parkinson’s Disease. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 43(6), 695-719. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0891241613514999.    

Current Research Projects:

My current research examines:

1. Family engagement in long-term care homes.
2. Conditions and experiences of work in home and long-term care settings.
3. Diversity and inequality in older people’s encounters with care.

I am a team member on the SSHRC-funded Multi-Collaborative Research Initiative “Re-Imagining Long-term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices” (PI Pat Armstrong).

Affiliated Research Groups:

In addition to the Gilbrea Centre, I am affiliated with the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility at the University of British Columbia and the Trent Centre for Aging and Society. 

Other Information:

Email ellieb@nipissingu.ca Call 705-474-3450 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• ​Aging workforce
• Ageism
• Workplace transitions
• Retirement and pensions
• Age and gender discrimination
• Gender and work history
• Work-family balance in academia

Recent Publications:

Current Research Projects:

Ageism at Work: Negotiating Age, Gender, and Identity in the Discriminating Workplace (book contract with University of Toronto Press).

The Parent Track: Timing, Balance, and Choice within Academia (edited book manuscript submitted with C. DeRoche).

Email crizzle@sympatico.ca Call 519 888 4567 ext. 31372 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Community mobility (driving simulation, on-road testing, naturalistic driving using GPS, falls, pedestrian accidents, wheelchair mobility, rehabilitation, screening, private and commercial drivers)
• Mobility issues within retirement and long term care homes
• Parkinson’s Disease
• Epilepsy
• Dementia
• Stroke
• Role of cognition on activities of daily living

Recent Publications:

• Crizzle, A.M., Vrkljan, B.H., Kajaks, T., Gish, J., & Fleisig, R. (2014). A systematic review of driver ingress and egress using passenger vehicles: Considerations for designers. Journal of Ergonomics: Special Issue on Driver Safety, S3, 1-5. DOI: 10.4172/2165-7556.S3-005

• Vrkljan, B.H., Myers, A.M., Crizzle, A.M., Blanchard, R.A., & Marshall, S. (2013). Evaluating medically at-risk drivers: A survey of assessment practices in Canada. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 80(5), 295-303.

• Crizzle, A.M., Myers, A.M., Roy, E., & Almeida, Q.J. (2013). Drivers with Parkinson’s disease: Are the symptoms of PD associated with restricted driving practices? Journal of Neurology, 260(10), 2562-2568.

• Crizzle, A.M., Classen, S., LaFranca, C., Roper, S.N., & Eisenschenk, S. (2013). Assessing the driving performance of a person with epilepsy pre and post surgery. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 67(3):e24-e29.

• Crizzle, A.M., Classen, S., Lanford, D.N., Malaty, I.A., Okun, M.S., Wang, Y., ... & McFarland, N.R. (2013). Postural/Gait and cognitive function as predictors of driving performance in Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Parkinson’s Disease, 3(2), 153-160.

• Rapoport, M.J., Naglie, G., Weegar, K., Myers, A.M., Cameron, D., Crizzle, A.M., ... & Marshall, S. (2013). The relationship between cognitive performance, perceptions of driving comfort and abilities, and self-reported driving restrictions among healthy older adults. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 61, 288-295.

• Classen, S., Wang, Y., Crizzle, A.M., Winter, S.M., & Lanford, D.N. (2013). Predicting older driver on-road performance via the Useful Field of View and the Trail Making Test Part B.  American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 67(5), 574-582.

• Crizzle, A.M., Classen, S., Lanford, D.N. Malaty, I.A., Okun, M.S., Wagle Shukla, A., & McFarland, N.R. (2013). Driving performance and behaviors: A comparison of gender differences in drivers with Parkinson’s disease.Traffic Injury Prevention, 14(4), 340-345.

• Crizzle, A.M., Myers, A.M., & Almeida, Q.J. (2013). Self-regulatory practices of drivers with Parkinson’s disease: Accuracy of patient reports. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, 19, 176-180.

• Crizzle, A.M. & Myers, A.M. (2013). Examination of naturalistic driving practices in drivers with Parkinson’s disease compared to age and gender-matched controls. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 50, 724-731.

• Classen, S., Wang, Y., Crizzle, A.M., Winter, S.M., & Lanford, D.N. (2013). Gender differences among older drivers in a comprehensive driving evaluation. Accident Analysis and Prevention: Special Issue: Emerging Issues in Safe and Sustainable Mobility for Older Persons, 61, 146-152.

• Crizzle, A.M., Classen, S., & Uc, E. (2012). Parkinson’s disease and driving: An evidence based review. Neurology, 79, 2067-2074. 

• Crizzle, A.M. & Newhouse, I. (2012). Themes associated with exercise adherence in Parkinson’s disease: A qualitative study. Occupational Therapy in Health Care, 26(2-3), 174-186.

• Crizzle, A.M., Myers, A.M., & Almeida, Q.J. (2012). Drivers with Parkinson’s disease: Who participates in research studies? Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, 18(7), 833-836.

• Crizzle, A.M., Classen, S., Bedard, M., Lanford, D.N., & Winter, S.M. (2012). MMSE as a predictor of on-road driving performance in community dwelling older drivers. Accident Analysis and Prevention: Special Issue on Cognitive Impairment and Driving Safety, 49, 287-292.

• Crizzle, A.M., Classen, S., Winter, S., Silver, S., LaFranca, C., & Eisenschenk, S. (2012). Associations between clinical tests and simulated driving performance in persons with epilepsy. Epilepsy and Behavior, 23, 241-246.

• Classen, S., Crizzle, A.M., Winter, S.M., Silver, W., & Eisenschenk, S. (2012). Evidence based literature review on determinants of driving performance in people with seizures. Epilepsy and Behavior, 23, 103-112.

Other Information:

Dr. Crizzle is a member of the dementia and driving team, as part of the larger Canadian Consortium for Neurodegeneration and Aging initiative, to develop interventions for driving cessation in those with early to mid-stage dementia and their caregivers. Additionally, Dr. Crizzle is also a member of the Canadian Driving Research Initiative for Vehicular Safety in the Elderly (Candrive), an interdisciplinary health-related research program dedicated to improving the safety of older drivers.

Email caemlet@u.washington.edu Call 253-692-5827

Primary Area of Research:

• Vulnerable populations of older adults
• Aging and HIV
• LGBT Gerontology
• Elder Friendly Communities

Recent Publications:

• Emlet, C.A., Harris, L., Pierpaoli, C.M., and Furlotte, C. (2017) “The Journey I Have Been Through”: The Role of Religion and Spirituality in Aging Well Among HIV-Positive Older Adults. Research on Aging, I-24. DOI: 10.1177/0164027517697115

• Emlet, C.A., Harris, L., Furlotte, C., Brennan, D.J. and Pierpaoli, C.M. (2016). ‘I'm happy in my life now, I'm a positive person’: approaches to successful ageing in older adults living with HIV in Ontario, Canada. Ageing and Society, Available on CJO 2016 doi:10.1017/S0144686X16000878

• Emlet, C.A. & Hughes, A.K. (2016). Older adults with HIV/AIDS. In D. Kaplan and B. Berkman (eds). Oxford Handbook of Social Work in Health and Aging (2nd edition). pp. 363-372. New York, Oxford University Press

• Erosheva, E., Kim, H-J, Emlet, C.A. & Fredriksen-Goldsen, K.I. (2015). Social networks of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender older adults. Research on Aging. DOI: 10.1177/0164027515581859.

• Emlet, C.A., Fredrisken-Goldsen, K.I., Kim, H-J., & Hoy-Ellis, C. (2015). The Relationship Between Sexual Minority Stigma and Sexual Health Risk Behaviours Among HIV-positive Older Gay and Bisexual Men. Journal of Applied Gerontology. DOI: 10.1177/0733464815591210.

• Fredriksen-Goldsen, K. I., Shiu, C., Kim, H.-J., Emlet, C. A., & Goldsen, J. (2015). At-Risk and Underserved: LGBTQ Older Adults in Seattle/King County - Findings from Aging with Pride. Seattle: Aging with Pride. Available at: http://caringandaging.org/. 

• Emlet, C.A., Breannan, D.J., Brennanstuhl, S. Rueda, S. Hart, T. Rourke, S.B. (2015). The Impact of HIV-Related Stigma on older and younger adults living with HIV disease: Does age matter? AIDS Care, 27, 520-528

• Fredriksen-Goldsen, K. I., Kim, H-J, Shiu, C., Goldsen, J. & Emlet, C.A. (2015). Successful aging among LGBT older adults: Physical and mental health related quality of life by age group. The Gerontologist, 55, 154-168 doi:10.1093/geront/gnu081

• Emlet, C. A. (2014). Current knowledge and future directions on aging and HIV research. Behavioral Medicine, 40, 143-148. doi: 10.1080/08964289.2014.935235

• Beaulaurier, R., Fortuna, K., Lind, D. & Emlet, C.A. (2014). Attitudes and stereotypes regarding older women and HIV risk. Journal of Women and Aging, 26, 351–368.  DOI:10.1080/08952841.2014.933648

• Fredriksen-Goldsen, K. I., Hoy-Ellis, P., Goldsen, J., Emlet, C.A. & Hooyman, N. R. (2014). Creating a Vision for the Future: Key Competencies and Strategies for Culturally Competent Practice With Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Older Adults in the Health and Human Services. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 57(2-4), 80-107

• Emlet, C.A. (2014). Understanding the Impact of Stigma on Older Adults with HIV. Psychology and AIDS Exchange, Available at: http://apa.org/pi/aids/resources/exchange/2014/01/stigma-living.aspx

• Fredriksen-Goldsen, K. I., Cook-Danials, L., Kim, H-J., Erosheva, E. A., Emlet, C.A., Hoy-Ellis, C., Goldsen, J. & Muraco, A. (2013). The Physical and Mental Health of Transgender Older Adults: An At-Risk and Underserved Population. The Gerontologist, 54(3), 488-500. doi:10.1093/geront/gnt021.

• Emlet, C.A., Brennan, D.J., Brennenstuhl, S., Rueda, S., Hart, T. A. Rourke, S. B. (2013). Protective and Risk Factors Associated with Stigma in a Population of Older Adults Living with HIV in Ontario Canada. AIDS Care, 25(10), 1330-1339. doi:10.1080/09540121.2013.774317

• Emlet, C.A., Fredriksen-Goldsen, K. I. & Kim, H-J. (2013). Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Heath-Related Quality of Life In Older Gay and Bisexual Men Living with HIV Disease. The Gerontologist, 53, 963-972 doi:10.1093/geront/gns191

• Fredriksen-Goldsen, K. I., Emlet, C.A., Kim, H-J. Muraco, A., Erosheva, E. A. & Goldsen, J. (2012). The Physical and Mental Health of Lesbian, Gay Male and Bisexual (LGB) Older Adults: The Role of Key Health Indicators and Risk and Protective Factors. The Gerontologist, 53, 664-675 doi:10.1093/geront/gns123

• Brennan, D. J., Emlet, C.A., Brennenstuhl, S. & Reuda, S. (2013).  A sociodemographic profile of older adults living with HIV disease in Ontario: Differences based on sex and sexual orientation. Canadian Journal on Aging, 32(1) 31-43.

• Emlet, C.A. & Moceri, J.T. (2012). The Importance of Social Connectedness in Building Age-Friendly Communities. Journal of Aging Research, Article ID 173247, 1-9. Doi:10.1155/2012/173247

• Brennan, D. J. & Emlet, C.A. (2012). Older adults living with HIV/AIDS in Ontario, Canada. Aging Today Online. Available at: http://www.asaging.org/blog/research-note-older-adults-living-hivaids-ontario-canada.

• Fredriksen-Goldsen, K. I. & Emlet, C.A. (2012). Health disparities among LGBT older adults living with HIV. Aging Today Online. Available at: http://www.asaging.org/blog/research-note-health-disparities-among-lgbt-older-adults-living-hiv. 

Current Research Projects:

• National Health, Aging and Sexuality Study: Older adults in vulnerable communities: Health and quality of life over time(2 R01 AG 026526 - 03 A1), National Institute on Aging, Co-Investigator (Fredriksen-Goldsen, PI). 

• Understanding the Lived Experiences of Older Adults Living with HIV in Ontario: An Examination of Strengths and Resilience in a Vulnerable Population.  Funded by Fulbright Canada. Principal Investigator. 

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• A profile of older adults with HIV/AIDS in Toronto, Ontario. Government of Canada, International Council for Canadian Studies. Principal Investigator 

• HIV Stigma in a population of adults age 50 and over (R03). National Institute of Mental Health, 2003-2005. Principal Investigator. 

• John A. Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholars Award. John A. Hartford Foundation and The Gerontological Society of America, 2001-2003. Award $100,000. Principal Investigator

Affiliated Research Groups:

• AIDS Service Organizations
• Casey House
• Gerontological Society of America

Email amanda.grenier@utoronto.ca View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Aging, Later Life & Identity
• Health, Mental Health, Disability & Decline
• Narrative Approaches & Qualitative Methodology
• Lived Experiences of Social Policy
• Diverse Social Locations that Impact/Disrupt the ‘Storylines’ of Aging
• Theoretical Approaches in Critical Gerontology

Recent Publications:

• Sussman, T., Barken, R., Grenier, A. (2020). Supporting older homeless person’s positive relocations to long-term care: Service provider views. The Gerontologist. Pre-print online version: https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnz171 
• Kelly, C., Jamal, A., Aubrecht, K., and Grenier, A. (2020). Emergent issues in directly-funded care: Canadian perspectives. Journal of Aging and Social Policy, Online April 22, 2020. DOI: 10.1080/08959420.2020.1745736
• Grenier, A. (2019). The conspicuous absence of the social, political and emotional aspects of frailty: The White Book. Ageing and Society. Online preprint https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X19000631
• Grenier A., Phillipson, C., and Settersten, R. (Eds.) (Forthcoming, late 2019/early 2020). Precarity and Aging: Understanding changing forms of risk and vulnerability in later life. Bristol, Policy Press.
• Grenier, A., Hatzifilalithis, S., Laliberte-Rudman, D., Kobayashi, K., Marier, P., Phillipson, C. (2019). Precarity and aging: A scoping review. The Gerontologist, November , 2019. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnz135
• Grenier, A. and Phillipson, C. (2018). Precarious aging: Insecurity and risk in late life,” What Makes a Good Life in Late Life? Citizenship and Justice in Aging Societies, special report, Hastings Center Report 48, no. 5 (2018): S15-S18. DOI: [///]. Open access link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1552146x/2018/48/S3
• Grenier, A., Griffin, M., Andrews, G., Wilton, R., Burke, E., Ojembe, B., Feldman, B., Papaioannou, A. (2019). Meanings and feelings of (im)mobility in later life: Case study insights from a ‘new mobilities’ perspective. Journal of Aging Studies, 51, Dec 2019, 100819, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2019.100819.
• Andrews, G. and Grenier, A. (2018). The ever-breaking wave of everyday life: animating ageing movement-space. In S. Katz (Ed.), Ageing and Everyday Life: Materialities and Embodiments. (66-82). Bristol: Policy Press.
• *Weldrick, R., & Grenier, A. (2018). Social isolation in later life: Extending the conversation. Canadian Journal on Aging. Volume 37, (1), 76-83. https://doi.org/10.1017/S071498081700054X.
• Gish, J., Grenier, A., & Vrkljan, B. (2018). Aging bodies, driving and change: Exploring older body-driver fit in the high-tech automobile. In S. Katz (Ed.), Ageing and Everyday Life: Materialities and Embodiments. (145-162). Bristol: Policy Press.
• Grenier, A., Phillipson, C., Laliberte Rudman, D., Hatzifilalithis, S., Kobayashi, K and Marier, P. (December, 2017). Precarity in late life: Understanding new forms of risk and insecurity. Journal of Aging Studies, 43, p. 9-14.

• Grenier, A., Lloyd, L., and Phillipson, C. (2017). Precarity in late life: Rethinking dementia as a ‘frailed’ old age. Sociology of Health and Illness, 39 (2), pp. 318-330. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12476 

• Pace, J.E., & Grenier, A. (2016)  Expanding the Circle of Knowledge: Reconceptualizing Successful Aging Among North American Older Indigenous Peoples.The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological and Social Sciences (2016); doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbw128

• Gish, J., Vrkljan, B. Grenier, A., VanMiltenburg, B. (2017; Epub August 2016). Driving with advanced vehicle technology: A qualitative investigation of older drivers’ perceptions and motivations for use. Accident Analysis and Prevention. Advanced Access. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2016.06.027

• Raymond, E., & Grenier, A., (2016). La participation sociale des aînés ayant des incapacités: un photoroman pour passer de la marge a l’inclusion. Revue Service Social, 62 (2), 131-149.

• Grenier, A., Barken, R. and McGrath, C. ( 2016). Homelessness and Aging: The Contradictory Ordering of ‘House’ and ‘Home’. Journal of Aging Studies, 39, 73-80.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2016.11.002

• Grenier, A., Barken, R., Sussman, T., Bourgeois-Guerin, V., Rothwell, D. (2016). ‘Growing old’ in shelters and on the streets’: The experiences of older people who are homeless. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 59 (6), 458-477. Doi: 10.1080/01634372.2016.1235067 

• Grenier, A., Griffin, M. and McGrath, C. (2016). Aging and disability: The paradoxical positions of the chronological life course. The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal. Vol 12 (2), 11-27. http://www.rds.hawaii.edu/ojs/index.php/journal/article/view/588

• Grenier, A., Barken, R., Sussman, T., Rothwell, D., & Bourgeois-Guérin, V. (2016). Homelessness among older people: Assessing strategies and frameworks across Canada. Canadian Review of Social Policy/ Revue Canadienne de Politique Sociale, 74, 1-39.

• Rothwell, D. W., Sussman, T., Grenier, A., Mott, S., & Bourgeious-Guerin, V. (2016). Patterns of shelter use amongst men new to homelessness in later life: Duration of stay and psychosocial factors related to departure. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 1-23.

• Grenier, A., Barken, R., Sussman, T., Rothwell, D., Bourgeois-Guérin, V., & Lavoie, J-P. (2016). A literature review of homelessness and aging: Suggestions for a policy and practice-relevant research agenda. Canadian Journal on Aging, 35(1), 1-14. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26782092

• Andrews, G. & Grenier, A. (2015). Ageing movement as space-time: introducing non-representational theory to the geography of ageing. Progress in Geography, 34(12), 1512-1534. http://www.progressingeography.com/EN/10.18306/dlkxjz.2015.12.003

• Grenier, A., & Bidgoli, E. (2015). The emotional consequences of organizational change.Canadian Social Work Review, 32(1), 181-199.  doi: 10.7202/1034150arhttps://www.erudit.org/revue/cswr/2015/v32/n12/1034150ar.html?vue=resume&mode=restrict

• Raymond, E. & Grenier, A. (2015). Social participation at the intersection of old age and lifelong disabilities: illustrations from a Photo-Novel project. Journal of Aging Studies, 35: 190-200.

• Grenier, A. (2015). Transitions and time. In J. Twigg & W. Martins (Eds.), Handbook of Cultural Gerontology (pp. 404-411). London: Routledge.

• Raymond, E., Grenier, A., & Hanley, J. (2014). The community participation of seniors with disabilities: A matter of self-determination, inclusive environments and identity integration. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology: Special Issue on Aging and Community, 24(1), 50-62. 

• Burns, V., Grenier, A., Lavoie, J.P., Rothwell, D. & Sussman, T. (2013). Les personnes âgées itinérantes – invisibles et exclues. Une analyse de trois stratégies pour contrer l’itinérance. Frontières,  21(1).

• Raymond, E. & Grenier, A. (2013). Participation in Policy Discourse: a New Form of Social Exclusion for Seniors with Disabilities.Canadian Journal on Aging/La Revue canadienne du vieillissement, 32(2), 117-129. doi: 10.1017/S0714980813000135.

• Baars J., Dohmen J., Grenier, A., & Phillipson, C. (Eds.). (2013). Ageing, meaning and social structure: Connecting critical and humanistic gerontology. Bristol: Policy Press. 

• Grenier, A., & Phillipson, C. (2013).  Rethinking agency in late life: structural and interpretive approaches.  In J. Baars, J. Dohmen

• A. Grenier, & C. Phillipson, (Eds.), Ageing, meaning and social structure: Connecting critical and humanistic gerontology (pp. 55-79).  Bristol: Policy Press.

• Grenier, A. (2012). Transitions and the lifecourse: Contested models of ‘growing old’. Bristol: Policy Press (Ageing and the Lifecourse Series).

• Carpentier, N. & Grenier, A. (2012). Successful linkage between formal and informal care systems: the mobilization of outside help by caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease. Qualitative Health Research, 22(10),1330-44. doi: 10.1177/1049732312451870.

• Raymond, E. & Grenier, A. (2012). Vieillissement actif et aînés handicapés au Québec: Duo du possible ou mirage? Les Politiques Sociales, 1-2, 113-125.

Current Research Projects:

• Grenier, A. (Co-Lead CC KMOB) - Official Partner of the NICE-Age-Well Initiative (2015-2022). Mihailidis, A., Sixsmith, A. (co-PI). Aging Gracefully across Environments using Technology to Support Wellness, Engagement, and Long Life - AGE WELL (Toronto, Ontario). National Centres of Excellence. 

• Grenier, A. (PI), Rudman, D., Kobayashi, K., Marier, P., Phillipson, C. Precarity and Aging: Unequal Experiences in Contemporary Late Life. Insight Grant. SSHRC. 2015-2021. $231,520.

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Grenier, A. (PI), & Dunn, J. Reducing Senior’s Social Isolation: Linking Community in a Participatory Research Initiative. Employment and Social Development Canada, Pan-Canadian Projects: New Horizons for Seniors Funding Program. 2015-2018. $281,043.
• Dunn, J., McKay, H., Murray, C., Anderson, L., Grenier, A., Heisz, J., Hooks, G., Kanaroglou, P., Newbold, B., Paez, A., Pisko, L., Raina, P., Scott, D., Sims-Gould, J., Tremain, H., Vrkljan, B., Winters, M., Yjannakoulias, N., & Young, M. Cross--sectoral policy implementation tools for healthier urban form futures. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) - Team Grant -Environments and Health: Programmatic Grants in Intersectoral Prevention Research LOI. 2016. $49,953.
• Vrkljan, B., Mueller, A., Deen, M. J., Dunn, J., Fang, Q., Fleisig, R., Gish, J., Grenier, A., Griffith, L., Heisz, J., Paez, A., Phillips, S., Raina, P., Selvaganapathy, P. Designing thinking for a cross-faculty and community partner collaboration: A transformative approach to addressing the mobility needs of our aging population. McMaster University, Interdisciplinary Research Fund (IRF). 2016-2017. $20,000.
• Marier, P. (PI) et al. (2014-2019). regards sur la vieillesse et le vieillissement: De l'expérience singulière aux enjeux collectifs. Fonds Québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC) Concours Soutien aux infrastructures de recherches des Instituts et des centres affilies universitaries du sectuer sociale. $867 000
• Gish, J. (PI) & Grenier, A., & Vrkljan, B. (May 2014-April 2016). Bodies, Technology, and Aging: Older People Driving a High-Tech Personal Automobile. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) - Insight Development Grant, $49 683.

• Papaioannou, A.,(PI), Kennedy, C., Ioannidis, G.,Sztramko, R., Merom,D., Trainor, L.,Woolhouse, M., Grenier, A., Marr, S., Patterson, C., (2017-), DANcing for Cognition &Exercise (DANCE) Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial, A Collaborative Initiative between GERAS Centre, McMaster DANCE Research Group, YMCA, and Alzheimer Society. Labarge Optimal AgingOpportunities Fund $75,000

• Kelly, C., (PI). (2016-2019). Aubrecht, K., Bourgeault, L., Grenier, A., Hande, M J., Martin-Matthews, A., Williams, A., Direct funded home care for older people in Ontario, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Project Scheme. $267,575.

• Greater Hamilton Senior’s isolation population impact plan. (2016-2019). 7 Partnered projects including, Gilbrea Centre; Hamilton Council on Aging (see Grenier and Dunn), Wesley Urban Ministries, YWCA Hamilton, Able Living, St. Joseph's Home Care, Thrive Group. Government of Canada New Horizons for Seniors Funding Program: Pan-Canadian Projects (2016-2021). Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC). $2,187,295.

• Grenier, A. (PI)., Gish, J., Vrkljan, B., & Paez, A. (Jan 2015-Dec 2015). Technology for Optimal Aging: An exploratory study o fthe effects of automobile innovations on the lived experience of older drivers, their mobility, and social policy. Labarge Optimal Aging Fund. $50 499

• Grenier, A. (PI) & Lombardo, A. (May 2014-April 2015). Landscapes of Aging: Critical Issues, Emerging Possibilities. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) - Connections Grant. $25 000

Email laura.hurd@ubc.ca View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Aging and body image
• Embodiment in later life
• Gender and gender identity
• Health, illness, and aging
• LGBTQ aging
• Qualitative methods
• Socio-cultural studies
• Sociology of the body

Recent Publications:

• Hurd Clarke, L., Currie, L., & Bennett. E. “I don’t want to be, feel like an old man”: Older Canadian men's perceptions and experiences of physical activity. Published online at Ageing and Society on July 17, 2018. doi.org/10/1017/ S0144686X18000788.

• Wada, M., Hurd Clarke, L., & Mortenson, W. B. (2019). “I am busy independent woman who has sense of humor, caring about others”: Older adults’ self-representations in online dating profiles. Ageing and Society, 39(5), 951-976.
• Hurd Clarke, L. (2017). Women, aging, and beauty culture: Navigating the social perils of looking old. Generations, 41(4), 104-108.

• Hurd Clarke, L., & Lefkowich, M. (2018). “I don’t really have any issue with masculinity”: Older Canadian men’s perceptions and experiences of aging masculinity. Journal of Aging Studies, 45, 18-24.

• Hurd Clarke, L., & Korotchenko, A. (2016). ‘I know it exists…but I haven’t experienced it personally’: Older Canadian men’s perceptions of ageism as a distant social problem. Ageing and Society, [Advanced online]. DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X15000689
• Korotchenko, A., & Hurd Clarke, L. ‘Becoming disabled yet again’: Experiences of bodily loss among men and women ageing with mobility impairments. Accepted to Ageing and Society on March 3, 2015.
• Donnelly, L., Hurd Clarke, L., Phinney, A., & MacEntee, M. (2015). The impact of oral health on body image and social interactions among elders in long-term care. Gerodontology. DOI: 10.1111/ger.12187
• Wada, M., Hurd Clarke, L., & Rozanova, J. (2015). Constructions of sexuality in later life: Analyses of Canadian media discourses. Journal of Aging Studies, 32(1), 40-49.
• Hurd Clarke, L., Bennett, E. V., & Liu, C. (2014). Aging and masculinity: Portrayals in men’s magazines. Journal of Aging Studies, 31(4), 26-33.
• Korotchenko, A., & Hurd Clarke, L. (2014). Power mobility and the built environment: The experiences of older Canadians. Disability and Society, 29(3), 431-443.
• Hurd Clarke, L., Bennett, E. V., & Korotchenko, A. (2014). Negotiating vulnerabilities: How older adults with multiple chronic conditions interact with physicians. Canadian Journal on Aging, 33(1), 26-37.
• Hurd Clarke, L. & Bennett, E. V. (2013). Constructing the moral body: Self-care among older adults with multiple chronic conditions. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 17(3), 211-228.
• Hurd Clarke, L., & Bennett, E. V. (2013). “You learn to live with all the things that are wrong with you”: Gender and the experience of multiple chronic conditions in later life. Ageing and Society, 33(2), 342-360.
• Hurd Clarke, L., Korotchenko, A., & Bundon, A. (2012). “The calendar is just about up”: Older adults with multiple chronic conditions reflect on death and dying. Ageing and Society, 32(8), 1399-1417.
• Hurd Clarke, L., & Korotchenko, A. (2011). Aging and the body: A review. Canadian Journal on Aging, 30(3), 495-510.
• Bundon, A., Hurd Clarke, L., & Miller, W. (2011). Frail older adults and patterns of exercise engagement: Understanding exercise behaviours as a means of maintaining continuity of self. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 3(1), 33-47. 
• Hurd Clarke, L., & Korotchenko, A. (2010). Shades of grey: To dye or not to dye one’s hair in later life. Ageing and Society, 30(6), 1011-1026.

Current Research Projects:

• Principal Investigator, SSHRC Insight Grant: LGBTQ Older Adults: Media Portrayals and Everyday Experiences (2017-2022).
• Co-Investigator, SSHRC Insight Grant: An Intersectional Analysis of Assistive Technology Access and Utilization Across Cultural Groups (2019-2023) (PI: W.B. Mortenson).

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Principal Investigator, SSHRC Insight Grant: Older Men, Ageism and the Body: Everyday Embodiment in Later Life (2012-2016).
• Principal Investigator, SSHRC Standard Research Grant: Body Image and Identity: The Experience of Multiple Chronic Conditions in Later Life (2008-2011).
• Principal Investigator, SSHRC Standard Research Grant: Body Image, Aging, and Non-surgical Cosmetic Procedures (2004-2007)

Email skatz@trentu.ca Call 705 748-1011 ext. 6020 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Cultural and critical gerontology
• Sociology of the body
• Cognitive culture and memory impairment
• Aging expertise
• Medicalization of memory impairment
• Phenomenology of falls/falling
• Biography and music
• Critical gerontology theory

Recent Publications:

• Katz, S. (forthcoming). How is Aging a Critical Sociological Problem? In M.J. Hird & G. Pavlich (eds.). Questioning Sociology: Canadian Perspectives. Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

• Katz, S. (2015). Five eye-openers in my life of critical gerontology. International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 1-14. DOI: 10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.15276

• Peters, K.R. & Katz, S. (2015). Voices from the Field: Expert Reflections on Mild Cognitive Impairment. Dementia, 14(3), 285-297. Includes 'Editorial', Kevin R. Peters and Stephen Katz, pp 1-15.

• Katz, S. (2015). Aging, Risk and the Falling Body. In W. Martin & J. Twigg (eds.). Handbook of Cultural Gerontology (pp. 165-172). London: Routledge. 

• Katz, S. & Gish, J. (2015). Aging in the Biosocial Order: Repairing Time and Cosmetic Rejuvenation in a Medical-Spa Clinic. The Sociological Quarterly, 56(1), 40-61.

• Katz, S. & Calasanti, T. (2015). Critical Perspectives on Successful Aging: Does It ‘Appeal More Than It Illuminates’? The Gerontologist, 56(1), 26-33.

• Katz, S. (2014). What is Age Studies? Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1(1).

• Katz, S. (2014). Music, Performance and Generation: The Making of Boomer Biographies. In C.L. Harrington, D.D. Bielby & A.R. Bardo (eds.). Aging, Media and Culture (pp. 93-106) London: Lexington Books. 

• Katz, S. (2013). Active and Successful Aging: Lifestyle as a Gerontological Idea. Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques, 44(1), 33-49. 

• Katz, S. (2013). Dementia, Personhood and Embodiment: What Can We Learn from the Medieval History of Memory? Dementia: Journal of Social Research and Practice, 12(3), 303-314. 

• Marshall, B.L. & Katz, S. (2012). The Embodied Life Course: Post-Ageism or the Renaturalization of Gender? Societies, 2(4), 222-234.

• Katz, S. (2012). Embodied Memory: Aging, Neuroculture and the Genealogy of Mind. Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities. 4(31), 1-14.

• Simon, J. Williams, S.J., Higgs, P. & Katz, S. (2012). Neuroculture, Active Ageing and the Older Brain: Problems, Promises and Prospects. Sociology of Health and Illness, 34(1), 64-78.

• Katz, S. (2012). How Are Emotions Social? In M.J. Hird & G. Pavlich (eds.). Questioning Sociology: Canadian Perspectivces. London: Oxford University Press.

• Williams, S. J., Katz, S., & Martin, P. (2011). Neuroscience and medicalisation: sociological reflections on memory, medicine and the brain. Sociological Relections on the Neurosciences, 13, 231-254. 

• Katz, S. (2010). Hold On! Falling, Embodiment and the Materiality of Old Age. In M.J. Casper & P. Currah (eds.). Corpus: An Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge (pp. 187-206). New York: Palgrave Press.

• Katz, S. & McHugh, K.E. (2010). Age, Meaning, and Place: Cultural Narratives and Retirement Communities. In T.R. Cole, R. Ray, & R. Kastenbaum (eds.). A Guide to Humanistic Studies in Aging (pp.). Johns Hopkins University Press.

• Katz, S. (2010). Sociocultural Perspectives on the Aging Body. In D. Dannefer & C. Phillipson (eds.). The SAGE Handbook of Social Gerontology (pp. 357-366). London: Sage Publications.

Current Research Projects:

• Principal Nominated Investigator: Canadian Institutes of Health (CIHR) Operating Grant: Perceptions and Realities of Mild Cognitive Impairment: Diagnosis and Treatment for Older Individuals, 2011-14.

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Co-Applicant, SSHRC Partnership Grant, Ageing, communication, technologies (ACT): Experiencing a digital world in later life.’  2014-2021.  $2.9 M.

Affiliated Research Groups:

• European Network of Ageing Studies (ENAS)

• Aging, Memory and Aesthetics Research Group (Toronto)

• Fellow, Otonabee College, Trent University

• Canadian Association on Gerontology (CAG)

• Gerontology Society of America (GSA)

• Institute on Aging and the Life Course (Toronto)

• Canadian Council on Social Development

• North York Women’s Shelter (Toronto)

• White Ribbon Campaign

Email pia.kontos@uhn.ca Call 416-597-3422 x7609 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Sociology of health
• Critical social science
• Embodiment theory
• Selfhood
• Dementia
• Qualitative methods
• Arts for social justice

Recent Publications:

• Kontos, P., Miller, K.L., Colobong, R., Lazgare, P., Luis, I., Binns, M., ... & Naglie, G. (2016). Elder‐Clowning in Long‐Term Dementia Care: Results of a Pilot Study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 64(2), 347-353.

• Kontos, P., (2015). Embodiment and dementia. In J. Twigg and W. Martin (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology (pp. 173-180). Routledge: London.

• Gray, J., & Kontos, P. (2015). Immersion, Embodiment, and Imagination: Moving Beyond an Aesthetic of Objectivity in Research-Informed Performance in Health. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 16(2), Art. 29, http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1502290.

• Kontos, P., Miller, K.L., Mitchell, G., & Stirling-Twist, J. (2015). Presence redefined: The reciprocal nature of engagement between elder-clowns and persons with dementia. Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice. DOI: 10.1177/1471301215580895.

• Kontos, P., Miller, K.L., Cott, C., Colantonio, A. (2015). Therapeutic landscape: Rethinking ‘place’ in client-centred brain injury rehabilitation. In K. McPherson and B. Gibson, A. Leplege (Eds.), Rethinking Theory and Practice in Rehabilitation (pp. 117-136). CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL. Senior Responsible Author.

• Haag, H.L., Caringal, M., Sokoloff, S., Kontos, P., Yoshida, K., Colantonio, A. (2015). Being a woman with acquired  brain injury: Challenges and implications for practice. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 97(2), S64–S70. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2014.12.018.

• Topolovec-Vranic, J., Ennis, N., Howatt, M., Ouchterlony, D., Michalak, A., Masanic, C., ... & Kontos, P. (2014). Traumatic brain injury amongst three cohorts of men in an urban homeless shelter: An observational study of the rates and mechanisms of injury. CMAJ Open. 2(2), E69-E76.

• Kontos, P., Miller, K.L., Mitchell, G., & Stirling-Twist, J. (2015). Presence redefined: The reciprocal nature of engagement between elder-clowns and persons with dementia. Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice. DOI: 10.1177/1471301215580895.

• Kontos, P., Miller, K.L., Colantonio, A., & Cott, C. (2014). Grief, anger, and relationality: The impact of a research based theatre intervention on emotion work practices in brain injury rehabilitation. Evaluation Review, 38(1), 29-67.

• Kontos, P. (2014). Selfhood and the body in dementia care. In M. Downs and B. Bowers (Eds.), Excellence in Dementia Care, pp. 122-131. Open University Press: New York.

• Kontos, P. (2014). Musical embodiment, selfhood, and dementia. In L.C. Hydén, J. Brockmeier, and H. Lindemann, H. (Eds.), Beyond loss: Dementia, identity, personhood, (pp. 107-119). Oxford University Press: New York.

• Kontos, P., & Martin, W. (2013). Embodiment and dementia: Exploring critical narratives of selfhood, surveillance, and dementia care. Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 2(3), 288-302.

• Kontos, P., Miller, K.L., Gilbert, J.E., Mitchell, G.J., Colantonio, A., Keightley, M.L., & Cott, C. (2012). Improving client-centered brain injury rehabilitation through research-based theater. Qualitative Health Research, 22(12), 1612-1632.

• Kontos, P. (2012). Alzheimer expressions or expressions despite Alzheimer's?: Philosophical reflections on selfhood and embodiment. Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities. Retrieved from http://arcade.stanford.edu/occasion/alzheimer-expressions-or-expressions...

• Kontos, P. (2011). Rethinking sociability in long-term care: An embodied dimension of selfhood. Dementia: An International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 11(3), 324-346.

• Kontos, P., Miller, K.L., Mitchell, G.J., & Cott, C. (2010). Dementia care at the intersection of regulation and reflexivity: A critical realist perspective. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 66B(1), 119-128.

• Kontos, P., Miller, K.L., & Mitchell, G.J. (2010). Neglecting the importance of the decision-making and care regimes of personal support workers: A critique of standardization of care planning through the RAI/MDS. The Gerontologist, 50(3), 352-362.

• Kontos, P., Miller, K. L., Colobong, R., Lazgare, P., Luis, I., Binns, M., ... & Naglie, G. (2016). Elder‐Clowning in Long‐Term Dementia Care: Results of a Pilot Study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 64(2), 347-353.

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Co-Investigator. “Older adults’ active involvement in aging and technology research and development”. AGE-WELL Operating Grant. Co-Principal Investigators: S. Kirkland & J. Sixsmith; Co-Investigators: P. Kontos, K. O’Doherty. $1,457,226 CAD.  2015 April – 2018 March 

• Co-Principal Investigator.“Traumatic brain injury in the workplace: Innovations for prevention”. Ontario Ministry of Labour Research Opportunities Program: Research for the Workplace. Operating Grant. 13-R-056. Co-Principal Investigator: A. Colantonio & P. Kontos; Co-Investigators: M. Bayley, J. Lewko, A. Mihailidis, T. Mollayeva. $298,916 CAD.  2014 June – 2016 May

• Principal Investigator. “Fit for Dialysis: Exploring research-based film as a knowledge translation strategy”. Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Operating Grant. MOP-133433. Co-Investigators: G. Naglie, S. Alibhai, T. Parsons, V. Jassal, D. Brooks & A. Thomas. 213,999 CAD.  2014 April – 2016 March

• Co-Investigator. “Enhancing person-centred and relational care through research-based drama”. Alzheimer Society of Canada. Operating Grant. Principal Investigator: S. Dupuis. Co-Investigators: G. Mitchell, P. Kontos & C. Jonas-Simpson. 120,000 CAD.  2013 Sept – 2015 Sept

• Principal Investigator. “Embodied selfhood and clowning: An innovative approach to person-centred dementia care”. Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Operating Grant. MOP-114953. Co-Investigators: G. Naglie, L-F. Low & G. Mitchell. 214,888 CAD.  2012 Apr – 2014 Mar

• Co-Investigator. “Exploring knowledge translation and exchange through arts-based health research: Theoretical, methodological and practical innovations”. Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Operating Grant. KTE-120252. Principal Investigator: K. Boydell. Co-Investigators: G. Belliveau, H. Cheu, G. Edwards, B. Gladstone, P. Kontos, W. Leeming, J. Parsons, E. Stasiulis, K. Tilleczek & T. Volpe. 100,000 CAD.  2012 Mar – 2013 Feb

• Co-Investigator. “Enhancing relationship-centred care through research-based drama”. Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Knowledge Translation Supplement Grant. KTB-117419. Principal Investigator: S. Dupuis. Co-Investigators: G. Mitchell, P. Kontos & C. Jonas-Simpson. 100,000 CAD.  2011 Oct – 2012 Sep

• Co-Principal Investigator. “Exploring the experience of artful engagement with older adults”. Ontario Trillium Foundation. Operating Grant. Co-Principal Investigators: P. Kontos, M. Tafler & A. Patteson. Co-Investigators: N. Anderson & T. Fujioka. 216,250 CAD.  2009 Nov – 2012 Dec

• Co-Principal Investigator. “Exploring clown work as a creative intervention in person-centred dementia care”. Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant. MPA-99128. Co-Principal Investigators: P. Kontos Warren, B. Co-Investigators: P. Spitzer, P. McKeever, G. Naglie & G. Einstein. 9,939 CAD.  2009 Sep – 2010 Sep

• Principal Investigator. “After the Crash: Exploring knowledge translation through research-based drama”. Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Operating Grant. MOP-86624. Co-Investigators: A. Colantonio, G. Mitchell, C. Cott, J. Gilbert & M. Keightley. 345,601 CAD.  2008 Apr – 2011 Mar

• Principal Investigator. “Embodied selfhood and person-centred dementia care: Exploring an arts-informed educational intervention”. Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Operating Grant. MOP-82889. Co-Investigators: G. Mitchell, B. Poland, B. Ballon, S. Jaglal, C. Cott & K. McGilton. 189,360 CAD.  2007 Apr – 2009 Apr

Affiliated Research Groups:

• Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Program
• Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
• York University
• Toronto General Hospital

Email bmillington@bath.ac.uk View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Physical activity and health
• Aging and physical activity
• Gender
• Race
• Media and communication production, consumption and representation
• Sport and environment

Recent Publications:

• Millington, B. (2015). Exergaming in retirement centres and the integration of media and physical literacies. Journal of Aging Studies, 35, 160-168.

• Millington, B. (2014). Video games and the political and cultural economies of health-entertainment. Leisure Studies, (ahead of print), 1-18.

• Millington, B. (2012). Use it or lose it: Ageing and the political economy of brain training. Leisure Studies, 31(4), 429-446.

Current Research Projects:

• Wilson, B. & Millington, B. (In progress) Corporate environmentalism and the Canadian golf industry. Principal investigator: Dr. Brian Wilson.

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Millington, B. (2015) Aging in the Information Age: An ethnographic study of video gaming in Canadian retirement centres. Supervisor: Dr. Margaret MacNeill (University of Toronto, Faculty of Physical Education & Health).

Affiliated Research Groups:

• Schools
• Retirement Centres
• Health Organizations
• Sports related businesses 

Email kristine.newman@ryerson.ca Call 416 979-5000 ext. 4160 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Informatics
• Technology
• Knowledge Translation
• Information-seeking
• Problem-solving
• Nurses’ work
• Nursing Education
• Rehabilitation Nursing
• Public Health

Recent Publications:

• Newman, K., & Booi, L. (2015). Critical reflections from the millennials on the global action against dementia legacy events. Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, 16 (3), 177-182.

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Newman, K. (PI) & Milhailidis, A. (2013-2014). Agitation Detection for Alzheimer's Disease - Pilot for Software Development. Internal Seed Grant Faculty of Community Services, Ryerson University, $5000

Affiliated Research Groups:

• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO)
• Nursing Research Interest Group (NRIG)
• Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA)
• Sigma Theta Tau International nursing Honour Society
• Provincial Nurse Educators Interest Group (PNEIG)

Other Information:

Dr. Kristine Newman is an Assistant Professor at the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Faculty of Community Services at Ryerson University. She obtained her Bachelor of Nursing Science (2003) and Master of Science (Nursing) (2005) from Queen’s University.  Dr. Newman completed her PhD in Nursing Science (2012) from the University of Toronto and a Knowledge Translation Canada: Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2013) at McMaster University in the field of Health Evidence. Her program of research includes Health Services Delivery and Policies, Knowledge Translation and Health Evidence with a focus on the aging population.

Email drudman@uwo.ca Call 519.661.2111 ext. 88965 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Discourses of aging
• Work transitions and long-term employment in mid to later life
• Low vision in later life
• Shaping of occpational possibilities in life

Recent Publications:

• Rudman, D.L. (2015). Embodying positive ageing and neoliberal rationality: Talking about the ageing body within narratives of retirement. Journal of Aging Studies, 10-20.

• Rudman, D.L. (2015). Situating occupation in social relations of power: Occupational possibilities, ageism and the retirement choice. South African Journal of Occupational Therapy, 45(1), 27-33.

• Rudman, D.L., & Dennhardt, S. (2015). Discourse analysis: Using critical discourse analysis to situate occupation and occupational therapy. In S. Nayar & M. Stanley (eds.), Qualitative research methodologies for occupational therapy and occupational science (pp.137-154). New York: Routledge.

• Asaba, E., Rudman, D.L., Mondaca, M. & Park, M. (2015). Visual methods: Photovoice in focus. In S. Nayar & M. Stanley (eds.). Qualitative research methodologies for occupational therapy and occupational science (pp.155-173). New York: Routledge.

• Prodinger, B., Shaw, L. & Rudman, D.L. (2015). Institutional enthnography: Studying the situated nature of occupation. Journal of Occupational Science, 20(5), 71-81.

• Mohler, C., Klinger, L., Rudman, D.L., & Shaw, L. (2014). An examination of systems-level barriers to employment for persons with vision loss. In, B. Altman & S. Barnartt (Eds.). Environmental Contexts and Disability (pp.259-275). Emerald Publishing.

• Rudman, D.L. (2013). Enacting the critical potential of occupational science: Problematizing the individualizing of occupation. Journal of Occupational Science, 20(4), 298-313. DOI: 10.1080/14427591.2013.803434. 

• Rudman, D.L. (2013). Critical discourse analysis: Adding a political dimension to inquiry. In M.P. Cutchin & V.A. Dickie (eds). Transactional Perspectives on Occupation (pp.169-181). New York: Springer. 

• Zur, B. & Rudman, D.L. (2013). WHO Age Friendly Cities: Enacting societal transformation through occupation. Journal of Occupational Science, 20(4), 370-381. DOI: 10.1080/14427591.2013.805456. 

• Zur, B., Rudman, D.L., Johnson, A., Roy, E., & Wells, J. (2013). Components of cognitive competence predictive of occupational competence in persons with dementia: A Delphi study. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 80(2), 71-81. 

• McGrath, C. & Rudman, D.L. (2013). Factors that influence the occupational engagement of older adults with low vision: A scoping review. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 76(5), 234-241. 

• Johansson, K., Rudman, D.L., Mondaca, M., Park, M., Luborsky, M., Josephsson, S. & Asaba, E. (2013). Moving beyond aging-in-place to understand migration and aging: Place making and the centrality of occupation. Journal of Occupational Science, 20(2), 108-119. 

• Rudman, D.L. (2012). Governing through occupation: Shaping expectations and possibilities. In G.E. Whiteford & C. Hocking (eds.), Occupational science: Society, inclusion and participation (pp.100-116). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 

• Dennhardt, S. & Rudman, D.L. (2012). When occupation goes ‘wrong’: A critical reflection on risk discourses and their relevance in shaping occupation. In G.E. Whiteford & C. Hocking (eds.), Occupational science: Society, inclusion and participation (pp.117-136). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 

• Prodinger, B., Shaw, L., Rudman, D.L. & Townsend, E. (2012). Arthritis-related occupational therapy: Making invisible ruling relation visible using institutional ethnography. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 75(10), 463-470. 

• Zur, B., Johnson, A., Roy, E., Rudman, D.L., & Wells, J. (2012). Beyond traditional notions of validity: Selecting appropriate measures for occupational therapy practice. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 59(3), 243-246.

• Kothari, A., Rudman, D.L., Dobbins, M., Rouse, M., Sibbald, S. & Edwards, N. (2012). The use of tacit and explicit knowledge in public health: A qualitative study. Implementation Science, 7(1), 1-12.

Current Research Projects:

• Negotiating long-term unemployment

• Perspective of service providers and persons facing barriers to re-employment

• Re-imagining risk in geriatric rehabilitation

• Environmental influences on occupational participation of seniors with age-related vision loss

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight grant, Possibilities and boundaries in the socio-political shaping of unemployment: How service providers and service seekers negotiate long-term unemployment in everyday life, $243,577 awarded to D. Laliberte Rudman (PI), Rebecca Aldrich, Suzanne Huot, Lilian Magalhaes & J. Griffiths, 2014-2017.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight development grant, Exploring the person-place transactions underpinning social connectedness and inclusion among older adults: Creating an innovative, interdisciplinary method, $68,700 awarded to C. Hand (PI), D. Laliberte Rudman, S. Huot & J. Gilliland, 2015-2017.

• Canadian Institutes of Health Research grant, Enhancing client-centredness in Parkinson’s Disease Care: Using a visual methodology to capture lived experience, $99,440 awarded to J. Holmes, A. Johnson & D. Laliberte Rudman (co-investigator), 2014-2016

• The Drummond Foundation, Research Grant, Older adults’ lived experience of age-related vision loss and the vision rehabilitation process: Service and environmental influences on participation and social inclusion, $50,000 awarded to D. Laliberte Rudman (Principal Investigator), D. Gold, M. Spafford, R. Renwick, S. Dale Stone & W. Hodge, 2011-2012. 

• The Toyota Foundation, Research Grant, Creating inclusive communities: Challenging the status quo through a multi-national innovative integration of ethnography and photovoice among elder migrants in Sweden and Japan, $60,000 awarded to E. Asaba (Principal Investigator), M. Luborsky, S. Josephsson, A. Kottrop, D. Laliberte Rudman & M. Park, 2010-2012.

Affiliated Research Groups:

• Canadian National Institute for the Blind

• Goodwill Industries

Email markskinner@trentu.ca Call 705-748-1011 ext. 7946 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Health geography
• Social gerontology
• Rural aging
• Aging rural communitites
• Health and social care
• Voluntary sector
• Community-based research

Recent Publications:

• Skinner, M. & Hanlon, N. (Eds.). (2015). Ageing Resource Communities: New frontiers of Rural Population Change, Community Development and Voluntarism. New York: Routledge. 

• Skinner, M. (2014). Ageing, place and voluntarism: towards a geographical perspective on third sector organisations and volunteers in ageing communities. Voluntary Sector Review, 5(2), 161-179.
  

• Skinner, M., Joseph, A., Hanlon, N., Halseth, G., & Ryser, L. (2014). Growing old in resource communities: exploring the links among voluntarism, aging and community development. The Canadian Geographer, 58(4), 418-428.

• Herron, R.V. & Skinner, M. (2013). Using care ethics to enhance qualitative research on rural aging and care. Qualitative Health Research, 23, 1697-1707.

• Herron, R.V. & Skinner, M. (2013). The emotional overlay: older people and carer perspectives on negotiating aging and care in rural Ontario. Social Science & Medicine, 91, 186-193.

• Joseph, G., Skinner, M., & Yantzi, N.M. (2013). The weather-stains of care: interpreting the meaning of bad weather for front-line health care workers in rural long-term care. Social Science & Medicine, 91, 194-201.

• Skinner, M., Joseph, A.E., & Herron, R.V. (2013). Spaces of resistance or acquiescence? Learning from media discourses on the evolving role of voluntarism in ageing communities. Environment & Planning A, 45, 438-450.

• Wilkinson, F., MacLeod, A., Skinner, M., & Reid, H. (2013). Visible voices: expressive arts with isolated seniors using trained volunteers. Arts & Health, 5, 230-237.

• Herron, R.V. & Skinner, M. (2012). Farmwomen's emotional geographies of care: a view from rural Ontario. Gender, Place & Culture, 19, 232-248.

• Joseph, A.E., & Skinner, M. (2012). Voluntarism as a mediator of the experience of growing old in evolving rural spaces and changing rural places. Journal of Rural Studies, 28, 380-388.

• MacLeod A, Skinner, M., & Low, E. (2012). Supporting hospice volunteers and caregivers through community-based participatory research. Health & Social Care in the Community, 20, 190-198.

• Skinner, M., & Fleuret, S. (2011). Health geography's voluntary turn: a view from western France. Health & Place, 17, 33-41.

• Skinner, M., Hanlon., N., & Halseth, G. (2011). Health- and social-care issues in aging resource communities. In J. Kulig & A. Williams (Eds.), Health in Rural Canada (pp. 462-480). Vancouver: UBC Press.

• Skinner, M., & Joseph, A.E. (2011). Placing voluntarism within evolving spaces of care in ageing rural communities. GeoJournal, 76, 151-162.

Current Research Projects:

• Skinner, M (principal investigator), G Halseth, N Hanlon and A Joseph (co‐investigators), Social
  Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Connection Grant, 2014‐15,
  $19,450 (International Symposium in Aging Resource Communities: Population Dynamics,
  Community Development and the Voluntary Sector).

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Skinner, M (principal investigator), G Halseth, N Hanlon and A Joseph (co‐investigators), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Insight Development Grant, 2012‐14, $71,110 (The Transformative Role of Voluntarism in Aging Resource Communities: Integrating People, Place and Community). 

• Skinner, M (lead principal investigator), N Keating and M Rosenberg (co‐principal investigators), G Andrews, F Beland, D Cloutier‐Fisher, J Guernsey, G Higginbottom, A MacLeod, V Menec and D Munoz (co‐applicants), N Beben, A Corriveau, J Kasperski, D Luck, R Pellizzari and P Rosebush (collaborators), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Planning, Meeting and Development Grant, 2011‐12, $24,994 (Rural Primary Healthcare for Older People: Building Research Capacity, Informing Policy and Practice).

• Skinner, M (principal investigator), meeting grants from Peterborough County‐City Health Unit and Trent University (Trent Aging Studies Collaborative, Frost Centre for Canadian & Indigenous Studies, Trent‐Fleming School of Nursing, School of Graduate Studies, Canadian Studies, Geography and Sociology), 2011, $2,000 (Rural Aging: Canadian Issues and International Contexts, a public seminar)

• Picton R and M Skinner (co‐principal investigators), Trent University, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Internal Operating Grant, 2010‐12, $3,840(Culturing Entrepreneurialism and Franco‐Manitoban Community‐Based Development)

Affiliated Research Groups:

• Local governements

• Community groups

• Public health agencies

• Hospitals

• Health care service providers

• Community support organizations

• Non-profit organizations

Other Information:

Mark Skinner, Associate Professor of Geography and founding Director of the Trent Centre for Aging & Society, Trent University, is a health geographer with expertise in rural aging, health and social care, and voluntarism. His CIHR and SSHRC funded research examines how rural people and places are responding to the challenges and opportunities of population aging, particularly the evolving role of the voluntary sector and volunteers in supporting older people and aging communities. Mark supervises graduate students through Trent's interdisciplinary programs in Canadian Studies and Sustainability Studies as well as the Geography graduate program at Queen’s University where he is Adjunct Professor. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in qualitative methods, foundations of geographic thought, health geography, community‐based research and rural community sustainability. He has held invited research fellowships at Université d’Angers and National University of Ireland Galway and was recently guest editor of the international journal Health & Place. In 2015 he will present an invited plenary address at the Australian Association of Gerontology national conference. More locally, he is a member of the Age‐Friendly Peterborough steering committee.

Email ltamblynwatts@gmail.com Call 1-647-969-6793 View Website

Primary Area of Research:

• Civil Law
• Aging Process
• Human Rights and Liberties
• Collective Rights
• Dementia
• Palliative Care
• Mental Health and Society
• Social, Economical and Political Impacts of Innovations
• Administrative Law

Current Research Projects:

• 2010/6 - 2013/10 Law Foundation of British Columbia (The)
  Assisted Living Law Reform Project
  Co-investigator : Krista James
  Funding Sources
  Total Funding: 100000 (Canadian dollar)
  Funding Competitive?: Yes

Affiliated Research Groups:

• Institute on Aging - University of Toronto

• Senior Fellow - Aging - Institute for Knowledge Mobilization

• Principal - Elder Concepts

• Chair - Law and Aging Theme Team - NICE Network (NCE funded)

• Affiliated Faculty - Elder Law - Elder Law Australia

• Federation of Law Reform Agencies of Canada - BC Representative - BC Law Institute

• Chair - Strategic and Policy Development Committee - National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly (NICE Network) - NICE Network (NCE funded)

• Member - International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse

• Past-President and Executive Member CBA Elder Law Section - Elder Law - Canadian Bar Association - National 

• Canadian / International Member - National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys 

• Center for Elder Justice and Policy - Affiliated Faculty - Law - Center for Elder Justice and Policy - William Mitchell College of Law

• Chair - End of Life Theme Team - NICE Network (NCE funded) 

Other Information:

Laura Tamblyn Watts is pursuing her doctorate in law and aging issues jointly at the Faculty of Law and the Institute for Lifecourse and Aging at the University of Toronto. 

She is a Senior Fellow and immediate past-National Director of the Canadian Centre for Elder Law (CCEL), the national organization which uniquely focuses on issues of law and aging in Canada.  She has been a long-time Staff Lawyer at the British Columbia Law Institute, the law reform body of BC.  Completing her law degree at the University of Victoria Law School in 1998, Laura was called to the Bar in British Columbia in 1999.  Her work includes research, education, law reform and outreach on elder law issues.  She is the author of numerous reports, articles and studies in the area of law and aging. (www.bcli.org/ccel). 

As a part of her research and consulting work, Laura performs “elder-friendly” audits of companies and organizations to become more responsible and able to deliver service to an increasingly aging customer base.

Laura is the past National Chair of the CBA Elder Law Section and a frequent contributor to Canadian and international programs on elder law issues.  Laura has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal on Elder Law and is an editor of a number of international journals in her field, including the Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect.  She is the facilitator of the World Study Group on Elder Law and co-Chair of the International Federation on Aging's Law and Aging section.  In 2009 she was appointed to the Uniform Law Conference of Canada, where she was actively engaged in projects on substitute decision-making in Canada.  Laura is a frequent author and presenter on law reform issues at conferences and speaking engagements nationally and internationally.

A founding member of the National Initiative for Care of the Elderly (NICE Network), Laura has served that organization a number of capacities.  She is currently the Chair of the Strategic Sustainability Committee, Chair of the Law and Aging Theme Team.  She serves as a Board Member for the NICE Network. 

She has provided expert testimony on law and aging or disability issues before a number of Canadian Senate and House of Commons Committees. 

Email peter.whitehouse@case.edu

Primary Area of Research:

• Aging
• Dementia
• Bioethics
• Intergenerational learning
• Information technology

Recent Publications:

• Whitehouse, P.J., & George, D.R. (2014). Prevention: How the Paradigm Is Shifting. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease, 1(1), 1-5.

• Whitehouse, P.J. (2013). The end of Alzheimer’s disease—From biochemical pharmacology to ecopsychosociology: A personal perspective. Biochemical Pharmacology, 88, 677-681.

• Vayda, S.E.M., Patterson, B., & Whitehouse, P.J. (2010).The Future of Dementia: A Case of Hardening of the Categories? Am J Geriatr Psychiatry, 18(9), 755-8.

• Whitehouse P.J. & George, D. (2010). Protecting life and lives: Putting gene research in context. J Alzheimers Dis., 20(2), 415-6.

• Dangour, A., Allen, E., Richards, M., Whitehouse, P., Uauy, R. (2010). Design considerations in long-term intervention studies for the prevention of cognitive decline or dementia. International Life Science Institute (ILSI) Europe Nutr Rev. 68(1), S16-21.

• Dangour, A.D, Whitehouse, P.J., Rafferty, K., Mitchell, S.A., Smith, L., Hawkesworth, S., & Vella, B. (2010). B-Vitamins and Fatty Acids in the Prevention and Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia: A Systematic Review. J Alzheimers Dis. 22(1). 205-24.

• George, D.R. & Whitehouse, P.J. (2010). Intergenerational volunteering and quality of life for persons with mild-to-moderate dementia: results from a 5-month intervention study in the United States. J Am Geriatr Soc. 58(4), 796-7.

Current Research Projects:

• Quality of Life in Dementia (NIA ADCS)

• Intergenerational exercise using the MS Kinect platform to teach systems thinking

• School-based health care (InterWell)

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• American Academy of Neurology 

• American Association for the Advancement of Science

• American Geriatrics Society 

• American Society on Aging 

• American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 

• Brain Health Executive Committee of Case Brain Health Collaborative 

• Case Sustainability Alliance 

• Institute for the Study of Aging Scientific Advisory Board 

• International Association of Gerontology 

• International Longevity Centre 

• Legacy Project 

• National Center for Creative Aging 

• NIA ADCS 

• Taos Institute