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Our annual CCAER Strategic Retreat is inspiring, motivating and fun! Thank you to all of our students and collaborators who joined us in Ottawa this year to help plan the incredible things we will accomplish over the next year. We also...

The CCAER team is proud to share that we have had SEVEN of our projects accepted for presentation at the 2024 Canadian Association on Gerontology (CAG) Annual Meeting. Looking forward to traveling together to Edmonton in October.

On behalf of our Advisory Circle and our leadership team we are thrilled to share that our Food as Medicine project grant has been ranked 1st in our category at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research with a score of 4.63. We have been...

We are grateful to the wonderful care providers, patients, and caregivers on the Bruyere Palliative Care Unit for partnering with us in our ethnographic study of the role and importance of food as part of person-centred palliative and...

Happy to share our work using the qualitative methods of interviewing and descriptive phenomology at the 2024 Qualitatives Conference in Brantford, Ontario.

Very excited to hear that our abstract titled "The role of primary care teams in identifying modifiable risk factors for food insecurity in rural dwelling older adults" has been accepted for presentation at the North American Primary Care...

We are looking for a new Research Coordinator to join the CCAER team. Check out our job posting here and please share broadly. https://www.bruyere.org/en/hr?job=19791 Closing date: 2024/07/18

We had a fun and productive co-design session with our community paramedic partners at the Ottawa Paramedic Service. We modified our food insecurity screening and assessment tool for their patient population and will soon be rolling out a...

Thank you to Carole Bérubé, Manager, Nutrition and Food Services at Bruyère, for the informative interview and kitchen tour. As we learn about the role and importance of food as part of person-centred palliative care, it is essential to...