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Janice M. Keefe
Professor, Chair
Director, Nova Scotia Centre on Aging
Lena Isabel Jodrey Chair in Gerontology
BA (UPEI), MA, PhD (Guelph)
Email: msvu.ca
Phone: (902) 457-6466
Office: McCain 201F
Curriculum vitae
Short Biography PDF (198 KB)
BiographyI received my BA in Sociology from the University of Prince Edward Island, my MA in Sociology/Anthropology from the University of Guelph, and my PhD in Family Relations and Human Development in the Department of Family Studies at the University of Guelph.Prior to coming to Mount Saint Vincent University in 1990, I worked in public municipal home care. I am currently a Professor in the Department of Family Studies and Gerontology and hold appointments at Dalhousie Faculties of Medicine and Graduate Studies.
From 2002-2012, I held the Mount’s first Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Aging and Caregiving Policy. Funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation enabled me to develop the Maritime Data Centre for Aging Research & Policy Analysis. In 2006, I was awarded the Lena Isabel Jodrey Chair in Gerontology and appointed Director, Nova Scotia Centre on Aging, and continue to hold both positions.
My research areas are family/friend caregiving, continuing care policy and practice, social demography, and Alzheimer’s disease & related dementia. I lead and/or co-lead a number of research teams examining these issues in the Canadian, and often Nova Scotian context. I have published many peer-reviewed articles, technical reports, and am often invited to share my research at regional, national, and international conferences. I have received recognition internationally for translating my research into policy, nationally for my contribution to continuing care and provincially for my contributions to Gerontology in Nova Scotia.
In Spring, 2014 I was honoured to be selected as Expert Advisor to the Minister of Seniors’ Employer Panel for Caregivers, a group seeking to identify best practices for employers seeking to support their employees who serve as family/friend caregivers.
I teach courses in social policy and aging in the Master of Arts and Undergraduate Program in the Department of Family Studies and Gerontology. I also provide mentorship and supervision to a number of graduate students and am able to provide research assistant/trainee opportunities to students through the Maritime Data Centre and the Nova Scotia Centre on Aging.
Research Interests
- Family/Friend caregivers to older people needing assistance (including women who combine work and eldercare, rural caregivers, assessment of caregivers, paying family members, and reciprocity between elderly parents and children)
- Formal caregivers and human resource issues for home care and long term care
continuum of care system - Dementia Care
- Rural aging
Selected Publications
Weeks, L. E., Chamberlain, S., & Keefe, J. (in-press). What makes a nursing home a home? Insights
from family members. Housing, Care &
Support.
Andrew, M., Dupuis-Blanchard, S.,
Maxwell, C., Giguere, A., Keefe, J.,
Rockwood, K., & St. John, P. (in-press). Social and societal implications
of frailty, including impact on Canadian healthcare systems. Canadian Journal on Aging.
Chamberlain, S., Keefe, J., & Weeks, L. (2017).
Factors influencing family member perception of ‘homelikeness’ in long term
care homes. Journal of Housing for the
Elderly, 1-16. doi:10.1080/02763893.2017.1335672
Dearing, J., Baecom, A.,
Chamberlain, S., Meng, J., Berta, W., Keefe,
J., Squires, J., Doupe, M., Taylor, D., Reid, R.C., Cook, H., Cummings, G.,
Baumbusch, J., Knopp-Sihota, J., Norton, P., & Estabrooks, C. (2017).
Pathways for best practice diffusion: The structure of informal relationships
in Canada's long term care sector. Implementation
Science.
Panagiotoglou, D., Keefe, J., Fancey, P & Martin-Matthews, A., (2017). Job satisfaction in
home care: Insights from home support workers in three Canadian jurisdictions.
Canadian Journal on Aging, (36)1, 1-14.
Keefe,
J., Dill, D., Ogilvie, R., & Fancey, P.
(2017). Examining household model of residential long term care in Nova
Scotia. Health Reform Observer, 5(1), 1-10. doi: https://doi.org/10.13162/hro-ors.v5i1.2748
Godin,
J., Keefe, J., & Andrew, M. (2016). Handling missing Mini-Mental
State Examination (MMSE) values: Results from a cross-sectional long-term care
study. Journal of Epidemiology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.je.2016.05.001
Aubrecht, K., & Keefe, J. (2016). The becoming subject
of dementia. Review of Disability
Studies: An International Journal, 12(2&3),
137-154.
Krawchenko, T., Keefe, J., Manuel, P., & Rapaport,
E. (2016). Coastal climate change, vulnerability and age friendly communities:
Linking planning for climate change to the age friendly communities agenda. Journal of Rural Studies,44, 55-62.
Rapaport, E., Manuel,
P., Krawchenko, T., & Keefe,
J. (2015). How can aging communities adapt to coastal climate change?
Mapping community asset vulnerability for planning and adaptation. Canadian Public Policy, 41(2), 166-177.
Manuel, P., Rapaport,
E., Keefe, J., & Krawchenko,
T. (2015). Coastal climate change and aging communities in Atlantic Canada:
A methodological approach to community asset and social vulnerability mapping. The Canadian Geographer, 59(2), 1-14.
Godin, J., Keefe, J., Kelloway, E. K., & Hirdes, J. (2015). Nursing home
resident quality of life: Testing for measurement equivalence across resident,
family, and staff perspectives. Quality
of Life Research. doi: 10.1007/s11136-015-0989-4
Ward-Griffin, C.,
Browne, J.B., St-Amant, O., Sutherland, N., Martin-Matthews, A.,Keefe, J., & Kerr, M. (2015).
Nurses negotiating professional-familial care boundaries: Striving for balance.
Journal of Family Nursing, 21(1), 57-85. doi:
10.1177/1074840714562645
Andrew, M. K., & Keefe, J. (2014). Social vulnerability
from a social ecology perspective: a cohort study of older adults from the
National Population Health Survey of Canada. BioMedical Central Geriatrics, 14, 90.
St-Amant, O.,
Ward-Griffin, C., Browne, J.B., Martin-Matthews, A., Sutherland, N., Keefe, J., & Kerr, M. (2014).
Professionalizing familial care: Examining nurses’ unpaid family care work. Advances in Nursing Science, 37(2),
117-131.
Lefrançois, G., Vézina, S., Keefe, J., & Légaré, J. (2013). Trends and characteristics
affecting disability among older Canadians living in private households. Canadian Studies in Population, 40(3/4),
174-192.
Research Grants
Co-Investigator:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)(July 2016-July 2023).
Foundation Scheme: 2015 2nd Live Pilot: Accessible and cost
effective psychosocial health interventions for Canadians. ($4,100,000). (PI:
McGrath, P.)
Co-Investigator:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (March 2016 – March 2019).
Project Scheme: 2016 1st Live Pilot: Safer care for older persons in
residential environments. ($913,577). (PI: Wagg, A.; Co-PI’s: Estabrooks, C. et
al)
Co-Investigator: Canadian Institutes of
Health Research (CIHR) (June 2016 – June 2018). Operating
Grant: Knowledge to Action: Caregivers, the lynchpin to homecare clients
remaining at home. (CIHR: $195,000) (Nominated PI: Warner, G.; Co-PI: Campbell,
A)
Nominated
Principal Investigator & Scientific Lead: Canadian Institutes of Health
Research (CIHR)(May 2016-
April 2020). Team Grant: Late Life Issues. Seniors- adding life to years
(SALTY). (CIHR Request: $1,397,931; AIHS Partner Funds: $200,000, Alzheimer
Society of Canada Partner Funds: $37,500, MSFHR Partner Funds: $200,000, NSHRF
Partner Funds: $200,000). (Co-PI: Estabrooks, C.)
Co-Investigator:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (2015-2018). Transitional
Open Operating Grant Competition: Improving Nursing Home Care
through Feedback On PerfoRMance Data (INFORM). ($756,827) (Nominated PI: Estabrooks, C.; PI: Wagg et al.)
Co-Investigator: Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).Insight Grant. The next generation of retirees: How will
demographic trends affect the timing of retirement of Baby Boomers and their
standard of living? ($315, 344) (PI: Carriere, Y.)
Co-Investigator:
Canadian
Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)(2014-2018). Canadian Consortium of Neurodegeneration and Aging
TEAM 18: Dementia family caregivers who are employed in the Canadian
workforce ($744,123) (PI: J. Savoy)
Co-Principal
Investigator: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)(Jun 2014
to May 2017). Partnerships for
Health System Improvement (PHSI) Advice seeking networks in long term
care. ($615,000) (PI: Estabrooks, C.)