Distinguished Scholar In Seniors Care

The Conconi Family Foundation Distinguished Scholar in Seniors Care will embed research at the forefront of service delivery. This will help create meaningful evidence so that knowledge users [of all levels] can put these practical insights into action.

The inaugural Distinguished Scholar in Seniors Care will ensure that the next decade of research is focused on what matters most to seniors. We’re thankful for our many partners including Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes, Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation, Victoria Eldercare Foundation, Nanaimo & District General Hospital Foundation, Providence Living, Providence Research, University of British Columbia, and other philanthropic partners who have come together to get us to this launch. A significant portion of this work will be on Vancouver Island, where we have rural and remote communities, and a high demographic of seniors. We are truly grateful to Island Health and especially Island Health Research for their recognition of the Distinguished Scholar as a critical piece for how we improve care for seniors.

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Practical insights will reflect what matters most and support decision making so that we can improve daily experience of older adults and their loved ones.

The research will support the implementation of new approaches to care that address what’s not working for older adults and image the possible.

Informed by lived experience, the research happens at the touch points where seniors interact with health, social and community systems.

This new role is critical to changing how we care for older adults, by embedding mechanisms for learning and implementation of insights in (near) real time.

Care is not about nuts and bolts, it’s about people. We must ensure that our workforce is well supported to tackle the new demands and ways of working.

Dr. Amy Salmon

We are thrilled to announce the creation of the Distinguished Scholar in Seniors Care at UBC. Dr. Amy Salmon, the inaugural scholar, currently leads a Seniors Research Group at the Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes (partnership UBC public health & Providence Health Care). This new function is essential to developing substantive research programs [over the next decade] dedicated to positively changing how we care for seniors. Dr. Salmon and her team have a demonstrated commitment to creating and sharing evidence in ways that knowledge users can put into action in their own environments and practice.

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Distinguished Scholar Annoucement

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Meet Adam Easterbrook

Working alongside the Distinguished Scholar in Seniors Care, Adam is using qualitative research data to provide critical insights into long-term care.

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Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes

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