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2005
Kirk, A., Stewart, N., Biem, J., Morgan, D. G., D’Arcy, C., Crossley, M., Forbes, D.
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) New Emerging Team (NET) program was designed to provide 5 years of support for the creation of new teams or the development of existing teams of investigators conducting collaborative multidisciplinary research in identified areas of focus. A NET...
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2013
Gibson, M., Forbes, D., Morgan, D. G., Thiessen, E., Blake, C., Markle-Reid, M., Culum, I., Finkelstein, S.
This article discusses the First Nations sample of a larger study on dementia care decisions and knowledge sharing. The purpose is to enhance understanding of the process of knowledge sharing among health care practitioners (HCPs), care partners, and persons with dementia (PWDs) within a rural...
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2012
Klosek, M., Hall, J., St-Amant, O., Ward-Griffin, C., DeForge, R., Forbes, D., Oudshoorn, A., McWilliam, C.
With the number of people living with dementia expected to more than double within the next 25 years, the demand for dementia home care services will increase. In this critical ethnographic study, we drew upon interview and participant data with persons with dementia, family caregivers, in-home...
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Development of a “Changes Toolkit” for Rural Older Palliative Patients and Their Family Caregivers
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Goodridge, Donna, Duggleby, W., Cooper, Lori J., Williams, A., Taniguichi, A., Leipert, B., Wilson, D., Marshall,D.
A “Changes Toolkit” was developed to help rural older palliative care patients and their caregivers deal with multiple concurrent transitions that cause disruption in their lives. The purpose of this article is to describe the development of the “Changes Toolkit” to support rural palliative...
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Documentation of guideline adherence in antenatal records across maternal weight categories: a chart review.
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Machold, C. A., Kingston, D., McDonald, S. D., Marshall, L.
Background Documentation in medical records fulfills key functions, including management of care, communication, quality assurance and record keeping. We sought to describe: 1) rates of standard prenatal care as documented in medical charts, and given the higher risks with excess weight, whether...
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Evolving the theory and praxis of knowledge translation through social interaction: A social phenomenological study
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McWilliam, C., Kothari, A., Leipert, B., Ward-Griffin, C., Forbes, D.
Background: As an inherently human process fraught with subjectivity, dynamic interaction, and change, social interaction knowledge translation (KT) invites implementation scientists to explore what might be learned from adopting the academic tradition of social constructivism and an interpretive...
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Family members providing home-based palliative care to older adults: The enactment of multiple roles
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Clemmer, S., Ward-Griffin, C., Forbes, D.
Canadians are experiencing increased life expectancy and chronic illness requiring end-of-life care. There is limited research on the multiple roles for family members providing home-based palliative care. Based on a larger ethnographic study of client-family-provider relationships in home-based...
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Fitting a round peg into a square hole: Exploring issues, challenges, and strategies for solutions in rural home care settings
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McWilliams, C., Kothari, A., Kloseck, M., Oudshoorn, A., Leipert, B., Forbes, D.
While home care has received much attention lately, little research to date has drawn on the experiences of rural multidisciplinary teams providing in-home care. Home care is typically studied in urban areas, with the tendency to expand urban practices to rural settings, often with problematic...
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2012
Richmond, C., Forbes, D., Finkelstein, S.
This article explores how dementia care is provided to First Nations communities in southwestern Ontario. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with health care providers and analysed using a constructivist grounded-theory methodology. Two interrelated frameworks for understanding...
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Gender differences in use and availability of home and community-based services for people with dementia.
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Henderson, S., Peacock, S., Kingston, D., Morgan, D., Leipert, B., Hawranik, P.
The purpose was to examine the use and availability of home and community-based services by men and women with dementia using data from the 2003 Canadian Community Health Survey. Variables of interest were based on the Andersen and Newman model and included predisposing, enabling, need, and use...