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Thank you to Carole Bérubé, Manager, Nutrition and Food Services at Bruyère, for the informative interview and kitchen tour. As we learn about the role and importance of food as part of person-centred palliative care, it is essential to...

We are thrilled to be in the Palliative Care Unit (PCU) at Bruyere's St. Vincent Hospital doing a study of the role of food as part of patient-centred palliative care. We are using rapid, team-based ethnography which means we will be here...

It is with great pleasure to share that our Student Research Assistant Katelyn Wang was selected by the Research Executive Committee of the Department of Family Medicine for the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) Student...

We feel so privileged to collaborate with our community paramedic partners in the next phase of testing our food insecurity screening and assessment tool across Renfrew County. Our co-design meeting went amazing and pilot testing will...

We are excited to welcome our third summer student of 2024, Paul Ioudovski to the CCAER team. Paul is a uOttawa medical student with significant prior research experience. He will be leading the co-design work in Phase III of the...

Congratulations to Marie-Eve Tittley on the acceptance of her manuscript with no revisions required. Way to go! Tittley ME, Backman C, Lee SH, Gibb M, Kehoe MacLeod K (2024) Analyzing Linguistic and Culturally Discordant Care from the...

Sharing our findings from our work on language and/or culturally discordant care at the end-of-life at with an enthusiastic audience at the 2024 Hospice Palliative Care Ontario meeting in Richmond Hill. We are all excited to increase...

We are grateful for the opportunity to share our findings on both our methods and the first few interviews we conducted looking at the experiences of caregivers of people at the end-of-life who belong to lingustic and/or cultural minority...

We have reached data saturation! The interviews for our SSHRC-funded study, "Understanding Food Insecurity for Older Adults Aging in Place" are complete. Thank you to all of our research participants for your time and candor. Thank you to...