What’s New?
August 26, 2024
A very warm welcome to Victoria Wicks, our new Research Coordinator hailing from Montreal, Quebec. Victoria will be leading our food as person-centred care portfolio, starting in the palliative care space and spreading into other care...
August 26, 2024
We are thrilled to welcome our new Research Coordinator, Olivia Ballantyne, to the CCAER team. Olivia joins us from Guelph, Ontario. She comes to us with significant experience working alongside First Nations, Inuit, and Metis...
August 12, 2024
Welcome to our new Research Coordinator My-An Auprix. My-An will be leading our new CIHR-funded project called, "Developing an Evidence Base to Inform Retirement Home Policy Development Using an Equity and Diversity Lens".
August 8, 2024
Congratulations to Katelyn Wang on her selection as the University of Ottawa's recipient of the 2024 Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Award for Medical Students. Katelyn has worked with the CCAER team as a student research assistant for the...
July 24, 2024
Our annual CCAER Strategic Retreat is inspiring, motivating and fun! Thank you to all of our students and collaborators who joined us in Ottawa this year to help plan the incredible things we will accomplish over the next year. We also...
July 18, 2024
The CCAER team is proud to share that we have had SEVEN of our projects accepted for presentation at the 2024 Canadian Association on Gerontology (CAG) Annual Meeting. Looking forward to traveling together to Edmonton in October.
July 17, 2024
On behalf of our Advisory Circle and our leadership team we are thrilled to share that our Food as Medicine project grant has been ranked 1st in our category at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research with a score of 4.63. We have been...
June 27, 2024
We are grateful to the wonderful care providers, patients, and caregivers on the Bruyere Palliative Care Unit for partnering with us in our ethnographic study of the role and importance of food as part of person-centred palliative and...
June 26, 2024
Happy to share our work using the qualitative methods of interviewing and descriptive phenomology at the 2024 Qualitatives Conference in Brantford, Ontario.