What’s New?

Excited to see our research on food insecurity moving into community-led action through the work of the Ottawa Valley Food Security Project (OVFSP), a grassroots organization dedicated to uniting families in West Ottawa and beyond to...

Congratuations to Katelyn Wang for being awarded une Bourse étudiants en médecine de l’Institut du Savoir Montfort (ISM) pour le concours 2024-2025 in the amount of $5,000. Congratulations Katelyn!

At Perley Health today to facilitate a resident and caregiver focus group on how to improve care transitions from long-term to acute care settings. So happy to work with wonderful colleagues Alixe Menard and Michaela Adams on this project.

The recruitment flyers are up! In just a few weeks the CCAER team will head to the Bruyere Palliative Care Unit for 10 days of rapid ethnographic field work looking at the role of food in palliative care.

CCAER has made it to Belfast for ICIC24 to share results from our emergency department avoidance and retirement home regulation studies. Thank you to everyone for the great feedback and insightful questions.

We are happy to announce that three new student research assistants will be joining the CCAER team after winning University of Ottawa Medical Student Summer Research Program (MSSRP) Awards. Welcome to Adam Bai, Paul Loudovski, and Montana...

We braved the snow today to start in-person interviews for our SSHRC-funded project exploring how rural-dwelling older adults access healthy and affordable food. uOttawa student Sam Tiukuvaara was an excellent research partner. Findings...

We are happy to share that we had two abstracts accepted for oral presentation at EGen2024 (the European Conference on Aging & Gerontology) in July.