A team of researchers from across Canada, including health Professor Tamara Daly and sociology professor Pat Armstrong, has received $2 million to study quality of life of seniors living in residential long-term care settings, their caregivers and supporters.
Tamara Daly
“Seniors – Adding Life To Years” (SALTY) is a four-year research project that will evaluate promising programs, practices and policies being used in residential long-term care facilities across Canada.
The project, involving decision makers, clinicians, care providers (including family and friends care), is being conducted in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta and Nova Scotia, led by Janice Keefe, a professor at Mount Saint Vincent University and director of the Nova Scotia Centre on Aging.
Pat Armstrong
Daly will co-lead one of the streams with Professor Ivy Bourgeault of University of Ottawa and Katie Aubrecht of Mount Saint Vincent.
“Our goal is to map promising approaches to care relationships in the context of system and organizational level policies that affect everyday care,” said Daly. “We are interested in the relationships between those providing paid and unpaid care and the ways these relationships affect care quality in late life.”