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2012
Duggleby, W., Williams, A., McIntosh, M.J., Eby, J., Leipert, B.
Most informal caregivers in Canada are women (Cranwick, 1997; Fast, Eales & Keating, 2001; Kaden & MacDonald, 1990; MacLean, Cairn, & Sellick, 1998). Women caring for dying persons at the end-of-life have been identified in the literature as those most likely to experience negative physical and...
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1967 Summer School of Frontier Medicine: Impact on Medical Students and Indigenous Communities
Download2010-06-01
Ross, Shelley, Campbell, Sandy, Behn Smith, Daniele
The poorer health status of First Nations, Inuit, Métis (FN/I/M) people in Canada is unacceptable and requires urgent attention. One potential means of improving FN/I/M health is to focus on improving training of medical students to enhance cultural safety. Experiential, community based...
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2012
Yonge, O., Foley, V., Myrick, F.
Pairing a student with an experienced nurse through preceptorship is an approach to teaching/learning that promotes critical thinking, cultivates practical wisdom, and facilitates competence. Frequently, nursing students are of a different generation than their assigned preceptors and differences...
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2016
Thompson, Stephanie, Tonelli, Marcello, Klarenbach, Scott, Molzahn, Anita
Background and objectives Randomized, controlled trials show that regular exercise is beneficial for patients on hemodialysis. Intradialytic exercise may have additional benefits, such as amelioration of treatment-related symptoms. However, the factors that influence the implementation of...
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Affirming the value of the resident assessment instrument: Minimum data set version 2.0 for nursing home decision-making and quality improvement
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Wagg, Adrian S., Drummond, Lindsay S., Jones, C. Allyson, Slaughter, Susan E.
Background: We examined the agreement over time of the physical functioning domains of the Resident Assessment Instrument: Minimum Data Set Version 2.0 (RAI-MDS) and the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) in nursing home residents with dementia. Methods: We completed a secondary analysis of...
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Canadians with dementia: Gender differences in use and availability of home- and community-based health services.
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Hawranik, P., Jansen, L., Kingston, D., Markle-Reid, M., Henderson, S., Peacock, P., Forbes, D., Morgan, D., Leipert, B.
The purpose was to examine the use and availability of home and communitybased 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 of...
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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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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...