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August 2020
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Canada is hearing

TREC's voice during the pandemic

TREC researchers have been featured in a number of interviews, articles, opinion pieces, and reports about the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on the Canadian long term care sector and its residents.
We must act now to prevent a second wave of long-term care deaths - The Globe and Mail
Restoring Trust: COVID-19 and The Future of Long-Term Care - Royal Society of Canada
Canada needs to start taking long-term care more seriously - The Globe and Mail
Canada's long term care system failed elders, before and during COVID-19 - CityNews
Experts urge federal standards, investment to fix long-term care system - Folio

We successfully

Wrapped up Wave 3 data collection

We are celebrating the end of our TMS wave 3 data collection! We wrapped up our data collection in March. We want to thank our coordinators for their fantastic efforts to make this happen, and especially the tireless efforts of our 30 data collectors! Together they've collected surveys from 5500 long term care staff from 91 facilities across British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba.

A new major initiative by TREC collaborators

NUERA 

NUERA (pronounced ‘new era’) is a transformative initiative that moves foundational research discoveries to wide-spread system change in caring for people with dementia. NUERA launches a bold scientifc and improvement journey from world-leading building blocks and tools shaped by the 14-year Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) program of research and its global collaborators. We submitted a Letter of Intent in July to apply to the New Frontiers in Research Fund in hopes of securing funding.
 

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NUERA: A Science, Industry and Civic Alliance Setting Canada Apart in Dementia Care

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Welcome to our

New TREC Trainees

Dr Yinfei Duan (University of Alberta) is a postdoctoral fellow with Dr Carole Estabrooks. She holds a PhD in nursing from the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include studying quality of life of older adults in long-term care, and the interplay among individual, psychosocial, and environmental factors in shaping the well-being of this population.
Dr Alba Iaconi started her post-doctoral fellowship with TREC in March. She completed her PhD training in Social and Administrative Sciences at the University of Michigan and Masters’ training in Pharmacy Administration and Health Services Research at Ohio State University. At TREC, Alba is helping better understand how contextual factors impact outcomes for residents and staff in long-term care.
Read more trainee research at TREC

We are celebrating the accomplishments of our

Future difference makers

Trina Thorne, TREC PhD student, has received a number of scholarships this year for her outstanding academic work about sequelae of psychological trauma in older adults with dementia. Her accolades including the Peter N. McCracken Legacy Scholarship, ARNET Academic Scholarship, Alberta Innovates SPOR Graduate Studentship. Congrats Trina!
Brittany DeGraves, Masters student with Dr. Estabrooks, was awarded the University of Alberta Masters Entrance Scholarship, which is given to students with excellence in academic achievement at the masters level who have the potential to become a excellent doctoral students. Congratulations Brittany!

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New TREC Publications

Role of policy in best-practice dissemination: Informal professional advice networks in Canadian long-term care

Keefe J, Cranley L, Berta WB, Taylor D, Beacom AM, McAfee E, MacEachern LE, Boudreau D, Hall J, Thompson G, Squires JE, Wagg A, Estabrooks CA

Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement

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Citizen and stakeholder led priority setting for long-term care research: Identifying research priorities within the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) Program

Chamberlain SA, Estabrooks CA, Keefe J, Hoben M, Berendonk C, Corbett K, Gruneir A

Research Involvement and Engagement

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Association of work environment with missed and rushed care tasks among care aides in nursing homes

Song Y, Hoben M, Norton PG, Estabrooks CA

JAMA Network Open

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