What’s New?

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.

Our newest qualitative linguistic and cultural discordance study in the home care sector has been awarded a 2-year operating grant from the Consortium national de formation en santé (CNFS). We will start recruitment in Summer 2024.

We are excited to share that we were awarded funds from the Concours AFP fond d'accélération at the Institut du Savoir Montfort to undertake Phase 2 of our Emergency Department (ED) Avoidance project. Thank you to Dr. Gravel for...

We will be heading to Reston, Virginia to present findings from our Centre for Aging and Brian Health Innovation (CABHI)-funded study co-designing a food insecurity screening and assessment tool at the North American Primary Care Research...