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Here are some of the successes by the SE Research Centre and/or with support from researchers at the SE Research Centre in 2023 to date:

 

Conferences

• Dying.Dialogues Symposium (January 27)
  • Exploring sense-making from death experiences
• 22nd Biennial Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association Conference (April 20-22)
  • Compassionate Community of Digital Health Care: An Action Plan for Integrated Care
  • How did registered practical nurses working with older adults in the home and community sector navigate the demands of care during COVID-19: learning of personal and professional resilience
• 23rd International Conference on Integrated Care (May 22-24)
  • Operationalizing a holistic health definition as a framework to guide comprehensive assessment at the point of care: a modified eDelphi study
  • Co-designing action-oriented mental health conversations: the case for integration in home and community care
  • Integrating health and social care in the community tosupport a new model of Long-term Life Care at home
  • Designing meaningful surveys: Engaging experts-by-lived experience in the development of a patientreported experience measure (PREM) of integrated home and community care
  • “Think aloud and tell us everything that comes to mind”: Results from cognitive testing of a patient-reported experience measure (PREM) for integrated home and community care
• e-Health 2023 Conference and Tradeshow (May 28-30)
  • Investing in Patient Empowerment and Access: The Ontario Province’s Story
• Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) Annual Conference 2023 (May 29-31)
  • Co-designing action-oriented mental health conversations: adapting and validating the mental health continuum model for older adults
  • Exploring aging & mental health-related considerations in the Canadian early pandemic context
• Northwood Research Symposium 2023 (June 7)
  • ​Power, Trust and Participation: Meeting Community Needs Through Community-Academic Partnerships
• 10th International Conference on Ageing and Spirituality - Challenges and choices: Spirituality and dignity in later life (June 4-7)
  • Grief stories: A reflective practice supporting LTC homes
• 24th Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Care Conference - Integration across the mental health care continuum from research to practice (June 9-10)
  • ​Attending to pandemic-related grief: A workshop on developing reflective storytelling to support well-being
  • Adapting the mental health continuum model to guide conversations between older adults and providers in home and community care
• Hospice Palliative Care Ontario (HPCO) 2023 Annual Conference - The Time is Now (June 11-13)
  • Mitigating decline and/or optimizing bodies: A critical ethnography of constraints to end-of-life conversations in the primary care of medically frail older adults
• Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry-Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health (CAGP-CCSMH) Annual Scientific Meeting - Addressing Complexity in Senior’s Mental Health (September 29-30)
  • ​Aging and Mental Health in Canada: Working with Experts-by-Experience to Identify Priorities, Address Research Gaps and Mobilize Knowledge
  • Identifying the Aging and Mental Health Considerations of Experts-by-Experience During the Early COVID-19 Period in Canada
• Ontario Community Support Association (OCSA) Community ReConnect 2023 (October 18-19)
  • ​Neighbourhood-based integrated home and community care partnerships with primary care inOntario Health Teams
  • Improving patient-reported experience measures (PREMs): insights from cognitive testing of an integrated home and community care PREM in Ontario
  • Co-designing action-oriented mental health conversations: adapting and validating the mental health continuum model for aging Canadians
• Canadian Association on Gerontology (CAG) 2024 - Community Engaged Teaching, Research & Practice (October 26-28)
  • ​Strategies for Negotiating Boundaries between Home Care Aides and Older Adults During Routine Home Care Delivery
  • Reimagining Care at Home: Combining the power of big data withauthentic engagement for transformative change
  • The Reflection Room®: A case for developmental evaluation for community-engaged research in aging
  • Why relevant patient-reported experience measure (PREM) data matters to improved aging care: Development of a survey for integrated home and community care in Ontario, Canada
  • Community-engaged research on aging and mental health: Adapting a visual model to guide mental health conversations among older adults, caregivers and care providers in home and community care
  • Developing Our Dementia Journey Journal – participatory research to foster partnerships between caregivers and care providers of persons living with dementia
  • Engaging with Experts-by-Experience for Aging-Focused Mental Health Research and Action: An example of a Community-Driven Collective
  • Development of the Participatory Research to Action (PR2A) Framework
  • The influence of integrated home and community care programs on Quadruple Aim and Health Equity outcomes across the health care system: A scoping review
  • Neighbourhood-based integrated home and community care partnerships with primary care inOntario Health Teams  
• 2023 American Anthropological Association/ Canadian Anthropology Society (AAA/CASCA) Annual Meeting - Transitions (November 15-19)
  • ​Visualizing and Envisioning Inclusive Medicine: video as an inter-disciplinary bridge to addressing health equity
  • The Moral Economy Of Care: How Clinical Discourses Perpetuate Indigenous-specific discrimination and racism in western Canadian Emergency Departments
• Lifting The Lid - Festival of Death and Dying (November 17-19)
  • ​Paying attention at the end of life: Mindfulness-based interventions
• 2nd RPN-focused Research Knowledge Exchange and Translational Symposium (December 1)
  • ​Co-designing action-oriented mental health conversations between care providers and aging Canadians in the community:  mitigating the wider impact of COVID-19

Publications / Online Articles

• Profiles of socially isolated community-dwelling older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: A latent class analysis - Link to article here.
• Developing an in-depth understanding of patient and caregiver engagement across care transitions from hospital: protocol for a qualitative study exploring experiences - Link to article here.
• The Reflection Room: Moving from Death-Denying to Death-Discussing - Link to article here.
• Policy and practices in primary care that supported the provision and receipt of care for older persons during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative case study in three Canadian provinces - Link to article here.
• Mapping a comprehensive assesment tool to a holistic definition of health for person-centred care planning in home care: a modified eDelphi study (under review) - Article available here.
• Resource Utilization Groups in transitional home care: validating the RUG-III/HC case-mix system in hospital-to-home care programs - Article available here.
• The Reflection Room® project: How storytelling supports processing grief - Link to article here.
• Evaluating co-designed tools for strong partnerships in the dementia care triad - Link to article here.

Webinars / Events

• Invited speaker at CAG MobilizeYU 8-Week Training Course
  • Clear Language Writing and Design - Carter C
• Invited speaker at Healthcare Excellence Canada's Spotlight Series (February 9, 2023)
  • Better home care for older adults and caregivers - Holyoke P
• Invited speaker at Health Design Lab Showcase 2023 (April)
  • Recovery + Renewal Co-design - Holyoke P
• Invited speaker at Mindful Society Global Institute (May 11, 2023)
  • ​Mindfulness and the End-of-Life: Finding Ease in Illness, Dying, and Death - Panel Discussion - Carter C
• Invited speaker at Co-Design Beyond Pandemics (December 14, 2023)
  • Inclusion/Exclusion - Kalles E