期刊: CANADIAN JOURNAL ON AGING-REVUE CANADIENNE DU VIEILLISSEMENT, 2022; 41 (1)
In its first national strategy on dementia, the Government of Canada has highlighted the need to improve quality of care for individuals living with d......
期刊: CANADIAN JOURNAL ON AGING-REVUE CANADIENNE DU VIEILLISSEMENT, 2022; 41 (4)
It has been shown that there is disparity in access to long-term care and other services for minority populations. This study assessed long-term care ......
期刊: CANADIAN JOURNAL ON AGING-REVUE CANADIENNE DU VIEILLISSEMENT, 2022; 41 (1)
Multiple transitions across care settings can be disruptive for older adults with dementia and their care partners, and can lead to fragmented care wi......
期刊: CANADIAN JOURNAL ON AGING-REVUE CANADIENNE DU VIEILLISSEMENT, 2022; 41 (3)
A prominent demographic trend throughout the industrialized world is population aging. Concerns about economic growth and labour force shortages have ......
期刊: CANADIAN JOURNAL ON AGING-REVUE CANADIENNE DU VIEILLISSEMENT, 2022; 41 (3)
Advance care planning (ACP) is commonly recommended for persons living with dementia. Increasing age and uncertain disease trajectory add complexity t......
期刊: CANADIAN JOURNAL ON AGING-REVUE CANADIENNE DU VIEILLISSEMENT, 2022; 41 (4)
Evidence of the impact of public reporting of health care performance on quality improvement is not yet sufficient for definitive conclusions to be dr......
期刊: CANADIAN JOURNAL ON AGING-REVUE CANADIENNE DU VIEILLISSEMENT, 2022; 41 (2)
It is estimated that approximately half of adults, older than 65 years of age, have been prescribed potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs). This......
期刊: CANADIAN JOURNAL ON AGING-REVUE CANADIENNE DU VIEILLISSEMENT, 2022; 41 (2)
Ageism is pervasive and socially normalized, and population aging has created a need to understand how views of aging and of older people, typically c......
期刊: CANADIAN JOURNAL ON AGING-REVUE CANADIENNE DU VIEILLISSEMENT, 2022; 41 (3)
In long-term care (LTC) homes, the management of frail older residents' pharmacotherapy may be challenging for health care teams. A new pharmaceutical......
期刊: CANADIAN JOURNAL ON AGING-REVUE CANADIENNE DU VIEILLISSEMENT, 2022; 41 (3)
A palliative approach to care aims to meet the needs of patients and caregivers throughout a chronic disease trajectory and can be delivered by non-pa......
期刊: CANADIAN JOURNAL ON AGING-REVUE CANADIENNE DU VIEILLISSEMENT, 2022; 41 (2)
There is growing interest in conceptualizing and diagnosing frailty. Less is understood, however, about older adults' perceptions of the term frail, a......
期刊: CANADIAN JOURNAL ON AGING-REVUE CANADIENNE DU VIEILLISSEMENT, 2022; 41 (1)
The federal and Quebec governments are both considering extending medical aid/assistance in dying (MAID) to non-competent patients who would have requ......
期刊: CANADIAN JOURNAL ON AGING-REVUE CANADIENNE DU VIEILLISSEMENT, 2022; 41 (1)
Transitions for older persons from long-term care (LTC) to the emergency department (ED) and back, can result in adverse events. Effective communicati......
期刊: CANADIAN JOURNAL ON AGING-REVUE CANADIENNE DU VIEILLISSEMENT, 2022; 41 (3)
This study examines associations between lifestyle behavioural factors and appraisals of healthy aging among older adults experiencing multimorbidity.......