Janice M. Keefe, PhD, FCAHS, FGSA
Professor and Chair, Department of Aging and Family Science
Lena Isabel Jodrey Chair in Gerontology
Director, Nova Scotia Centre on Aging
BA (UPEI), MA, PhD (Guelph)
Email: janice.keefe@msvu.ca
Phone: (902) 457-6466
Office: McCain 201F
Biography
Janice Keefe is Professor and Chair of the Department of Aging and Family Science at Mount Saint Vincent University and an Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Graduate Studies. She holds the Lena Isabel Jodrey Chair in Gerontology and is Director of the Nova Scotia Centre on Aging. Dr. Keefe is an Affiliate Scientist with Nova Scotia Health Authority, and an Associate Scientist with the Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit. She has received provincial, national and international recognition for her research, and is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Gerontological Society of America. Dr. Keefe is active on numerous advisory boards including Statistics Canada’s Demographic Advisory committee, the European Union’s More Years Better Lives initiative and the Canadian Academy of Health Science expert panel on dementia.
Dr. Keefe’s research expertise centers on family/friend caregivers, continuing care policies, dementia care, rural aging, and continuing care human resources. She is currently the Nominated PI on a 4-year CIHR-funded project grant that aims to build a research collaboration in Atlantic Canada for research on long-term care (ARC-LTC). Dr. Keefe has led several other multidisciplinary, Tri-Council funded projects focused on long term care (e.g. Seniors Adding Life to Years (SALTY); home and community care (e.g. How approaches to care shape the pathways of older adult home care clients (Home Care Pathways); and family/friend caregiving (e.g. Strategic review of family/friend caregiving in Nova Scotia (http://nscaregivingproject.ca/).
She enjoys teaching courses in social policy and aging in the master’s and undergraduate programs in the Department of Aging and Family Science and provides mentorship and supervision to a number of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
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)
- Formal caregivers and human resource issues across the continuum of care (i.e. in home/community care and long-term care)
- Continuing care policies
- Dementia care
- Rural aging
- Projecting the needs of older Canadians in the future
Selected Publications
*A selection from the last 10 years
**Students/Trainees are underlined
Funk, L., Kuryk, K., O’Neil, K., Warner, G., Macdonald, M., Keefe, J. (2025). Understanding change in home care pathways over time through longitudinal qualitative inquiry. Canadian Journal on Aging, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1017/S071498082510038X
Hoben, M. Kilmen, S., Keefe, J., O’Rourke, H. M., Banerjee, S., Estabrooks, C. A. (2025). Measurement invariance and differential item functioning of a care staff proxy measure of nursing home resident dementia-specific quality of life (DEMQOL-CH): Do care aides’ first language, and care aides’ and residents’ ethno-cultural background matter? Social Science & Medicine, 375, 118089. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118089
Keefe, J., McCloskey, R., Hodgins, M., McArthur, C., MacKenzie, A., Weeks, L.E., Estabrooks, C.A. (2025). Examining quality of work life in Atlantic Canadian long-term care homes: Protocol for a cross-sectional survey study. JMIR Res Protoc 2025;14:e66338. https://doi.org/10.2196/66338
Mah, J., Andrew, M.K., Quach, J., Stevens, S., Keefe, J., Rockwood, K., Godin, J. (2025). Changes in frailty predict social vulnerability among home care clients living in the community followed for ten years. Journal of Frailty & Aging. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjfa.2025.100031
Hande, M. J., Weeks, L. E., Chamberlain, S. A., Hubley, E., Burke, R., Warner, G., Andrew, M.K., Keefe, J. (2025). Caregivers’ experiences of nursing home restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian Journal on Aging. https://doi.org/10.1017/S071498082400045X
Keefe, J. M., Duynisveld, A., Stevens, S., & Estabrooks, C. (2024). Quality of Work Life and Mental Well-Being for Long-Term Care Staff in Nova Scotia. Healthcare policy, 19(4), 32–41. https://doi.org/10.12927/hcpol.2024.27348
Funk, L., Kuryk, K., Spring, L., & Keefe, J. (2024). Problematizing dominant assumptions about unpaid support through exploring case study profiles of older home care clients. Health & Social Care in the Community, 2024, Article ID 3707796. https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/3707796
Hande, M. J., Owusu, P., Aubrecht, K., Cloutier, D., Estabrooks, C., & Keefe, J. (2024). Towards equitable representation in long-term residential care: widening the circle to ensure “essential voices” in research teams. Research involvement and engagement, 10(1), 34. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-024-00562-6
Hoben, M., Dymchuk, E., Doupe, M.B., Keefe, J., Aubrecht, K., Kelly, C., Stajduhar, K., Banerjee, S., O’Rourke, H., Chamberlain,S., Beeber, A., Hughes, L., Salma, J., Jarrett, P., Arya, A., Corbett, K., Devkota, R., Ristau, M., Shrestha, S., Estabrooks, C.A. (2024). Counting what counts: Assessing quality of life and its social determinants among nursing home residents with dementia. BMC Geriatrics, 24, Article 177 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-024-04710-1
DeGraves, B.S., Titley, H., Duan, Y., Thorne, T.E., Banerjee, S., Ginsburg, L., Salma, J., Hegadoren, K., Angel, C., Keefe, J., Lanius, R., and Estabrooks, C.A. (2024). Workforce resilience supporting staff in managing stress: A coherent breathing intervention for the long-term care workforce. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS), 72(3):753-766. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.18727
Spring, L., Funk, L., Kuryk, K., Warner, G., Macdonald, M., Burke, R., Keefe, J.M. (2024). Person-centered home care: Exploring worker-client relationships using an intersectional and critical disability framework. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 43(1), 101–109. https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648231201837
Kuryk, K., Funk, L., Warner, G., Macdonald, M., Lobchuk, M., Rempel, J., Spring, L., & Keefe, J. (2023). Ageing in place with non-medical home support services need not translate into dependence. Ageing & Society, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X23000478
Spring, L., Funk, L., Kuryk, K., Warner, G., Macdonald, M., Burke, R., Keefe, J. (2023). Person-centered home care: Exploring worker-client relationships using an intersectional and critical disability framework. Journal of Applied Gerontology. https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648231201837
Song, Y., Keefe, J.M., Squires, J., deGraves, B., Duan, Y., Duynisveld, A., Cummings, G., Doupe, M., Hoben, M., Poss, J., & Estabrooks, C. (2023). Changes in health and well-being of care aides in nursing homes from a pre-pandemic baseline in February 2020 to December 2021. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 0(0), https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648231197074
Mah, J., Godin, J., Stevens, S., Keefe, J., Rockwood K., Andrew, M. (2023). Social vulnerability and frailty in hospitalized older adults. Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 26(3), 390–399. https://doi.org/10.5770/cgj.26.638
Keefe, J. M., & Krawchenko, T. (2023). Policies that support and hinder families as partners in care during COVID-19 pandemic: Comparative policy learning from England, British Columbia and the Netherlands. Canadian Journal on Aging, 42(4), 754-760. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0714980823000296
Estabrooks, C.A., Ewa, V., Keefe, J., Straus, S.E. (2023). The predictable crisis: COVID 19 in Canada’s long-term care homes. BMJ, 382, e075148. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2023-075148
Mitchell, L., Poss, J., MacDonald, M., Burke, R. & Keefe, J. (2023). Inter-provincial variation in older home care clients and their pathways: A population-based retrospective cohort study in Canada. BMC Geriatrics, 23, Article 389 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-023-04097-5
Irwin, P., Taylor, D., Keefe, J. (2023). Provincial Policies Affecting Resident Quality of Life in Canadian Residential Long-term Care, BMC Geriatrics, 23, Article 362 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-023-04074-y
Hoben, M., Dymchuk, E., Corbett, K., Devkota, R., Shrestha, S., Lam, J., Banerjee, S., Chamber-lain, S. A., Cummings, G. G., Doupe, M. B., Duan, Y., Keefe, J., O’Rourke, H. M., Saeidzadeh, S., Song, Y., Estabrooks, C. A. (2023). Factors associated with the quality of life of nursing home residents during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A cross-sectional study. J Am Med Dir Assoc, 24(6), 876–884.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2023.03.033
Gruneir, A., Hoben, M., Easterbrook, A., Jensen, C., Buencamino, M., Tompalski, J., Chamberlain, S., Ekhlas, S., Bever, G., Murphy, R., Estabrooks, C., Keefe, J., Marshall, S. (2023). Exploring nursing home resident priorities for care using the Action-Project Method. BMC Geriatrics, 23, Article 133 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-023-03863-9
Estabrooks, C., Duan Y., Cummings, G., Doupe, M., Keefe, J., Poss J., Song, Y., Squires, J., Wagg, A., Norton, P. (2023). Changes in health and well-being of nursing home managers from February 2020 (pre-pandemic) to December 2021. J Am Med Dir Assoc., 24(2), 148-155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2022.12.004
Chamberlain, S., Warner, G., Andrew, M., Hande, M.J., Hubley, E., Weeks, L.E., Keefe, J. (2022). With COVID comes complexity: Assessing the implementation of family visitation programs in long-term care. The Gerontologist, 63(3), 490-500. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnac175
Keefe, J.M., Taylor, D., Hande, M.J., Irwin., P. & Hubley, E. (2022). Do residential long-term care policies support family involvement in residents’ quality of life in four Canadian Provinces? Journal of Aging & Social Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/08959420.2022.2138066
Funk, L., Irwin, P., Kuryk, K., Lobchuk, M., Rempel, J., & Keefe, J. (2022). Home care program flexibility and client-centred care as relational phenomenon. Social Science in Medicine – Qualitative Research in Health, 2, 100107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100107
Song, Y., MacEachern, L., Doupe, M.B., Ginsburg, L., Chamberlain, S.A., Cranley, L., Easterbrook, C. A., Hoben, M., Knopp-Sihota, J., Reid, R.C., Wagg, A., Estabrooks, C.A., Keefe, J.M., Rappon, T., Berta, W.B. (2022). Influences of post-implementation factors on the sustainability, sustainment and intra-organizational spread of complex interventions. BMC Health Services Research, 22,666. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08026-x
Mah, J., Rockwood, K., Pitre, T., Stevens, S., Keefe, J., Andrew, M. (2022). Do interventions reducing social vulnerability improve health in community dwelling older adults? A systematic review. Clinical Interventions in Aging, 17, 447-465. https://doi.org/10.2147/CIA.S349836
Taylor, D. & Keefe, J. (2021). How residents’ quality of life are represented in long term care policy: A novel method to support policy analysis. Journal of Long-Term Care. 375–385. http://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.79
Poss, J., Mitchell, L., Mah, J., & Keefe, J. (2021). Disparities in utilization of psychiatric services among home care clients: The tale of two Canadian jurisdictions. Frontiers in psychiatry, 12, 712112. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.712112
Hoben, M., Ginsburg, L., Norton, P., Doupe, M., Berta, W., Dearing, J., Keefe, J., & Estabrooks, C. (2021). Sustained effects of the INFORM cluster randomized trial: An observational post-intervention study. Implementation Science, 16(83). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-021-01151-x
Hande, M.J., Taylor, D., & Keefe, J. (2021). The role of volunteers in enhancing resident quality of life in long term care: Analyzing policies that may enable or limit this role. Canadian Journal on Aging, ePub ahead of press. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0714980821000106
Mah, J., Stevens, S., Keefe, J. M., Rockwood, K., & Andrew, M. (2021). Social factors influencing utilization of home care in community-dwelling older adults: A scoping review. BMC Geriatrics, 21(1), 145. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-021-02069-1
Hande, M.J., Keefe, J., & Taylor, D. (2021). Long-term residential care policy guidance for staff to support resident quality of life. The Gerontologist, 61(4), 540–551. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaa176
Keefe, J., Cranley, L., Berta, W., Taylor, D, Beacom, A., McAfee, E., MacEachern, L., Boudeau, D., Hall, J. Thompson, G., Squires, J., Wagg, A., & Estabrooks, C. (2021). Role of policy in best-practice dissemination: Informal professional advice networks in Canadian long-term care. Canadian Journal on Aging, 1 40(1), 166–176. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0714980820000057
Duan, Y., Iaconi, A., Song, Y., Norton, P.G., Squires, J.E., Keefe, J., Cummings, G.G., & Estabrooks, C.A. (2020). Care aides working multiple jobs: Considerations for staffing policies in long-term care homes during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 21(10), 1390-1391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2020.07.036
MacEachern, L., Cranley, L., Curran, J., & Keefe, J. (2020). The role of motivation in the diffusion of innovations in Canada’s long-term care sector: A qualitative study. Implementation Science Communications, 1, 79. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43058-020-00069-7
Estabrooks, C.A., Straus, S., Flood, C.M., Keefe, J., Armstrong, P., Donner, G., Boscart, V., Ducharme, F., Silvius, J., & Wolfson, M. (2020). Restoring trust: COVID-19 and the future of long term care in Canada. FACETS, 5(1), 651-691. https://dx.doi.org/10.1139/facets-2020-0056
Keefe, J., Funk, L., Knight, L., Lobchuk, M., Macdonald, M., Mitchell, L., Rempel, J., Warner, G., & Stevens, S. (2020). Home care clients: A research protocol for studying their pathways. BMC Health Services Research, 20(1), 535. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05363-7
O’Neil, K., Aubrecht, K., & Keefe, J. (2020). Dimensions of housing insecurity for older women living with a low income. Journal of Aging and Environment, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/26892618.2020.1744498
Keefe, J., Hande, M., Aubrecht, K., Daly, T., Cloutier, D., Taylor, D., Hoben, M., Stajduhar, K., Cook, H., Bourgeault, I., MacDonald, L., & Estabrooks, C. (2020). Team-based integrated knowledge translation for enhancing quality of life in long-term care settings: A multi-method, multi-sectoral research design. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 9(4), 138-142. https://doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2019.123
Berta, W., Wagg, A., Cranley, L., Doupe, M., Ginsberg, L., Hoben, M., MacEachern, L., Chamberlain, S., Clement, F., Easterbrook, A., Keefe, J., Knopp-Sihota, J., Rappon, T., Reid, C., Song, Y., & Estabrooks, C. (2019). Sustainment, Sustainability, and Spread Study (SSaSSy): Protocol for a study of factors that contribute to the sustainment, sustainability, and spread of practice changes introduced through an evidence-based quality-improvement intervention in Canadian nursing homes. Implementation Science, 14, e109, 10 pp. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-019-0959-2
Queluz, F., Kervin, E., Wozney, L., Fancey, P., McGrath, P. & Keefe, J. (2020). Understanding the needs of caregivers of persons with dementia: A scoping review. International Psychogeriatrics, 32(1), 35-52. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610219000243
Cranley, L.A., Keefe, J., Taylor, D., Thompson, G., Beacom, A.M., Squires, J.E., Estabrooks, C.A., Dearing, J.W., Norton, P.G., Berta, W.B. (2019). Understanding professional advice networks in long-term care: An outside-inside view of best practice pathways for diffusion. Implementation Science, 14(10), 2-13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-019-0858-6
Guberman, N., Keefe, J., & Fancey, P. (2019). The assessment experience of spousal dementia caregivers. “It’s made me realize that I am a person also”. Ageing & Society, 39(11), 2443-2464. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X18000557
Wozney, L., Freitas de Souza, L. M., Kervin, E., Queluz, F., McGrath, P.J., & Keefe, J. (2018). Commercially available mobile apps for caregivers of people with Alzheimer Disease or Other Related Dementias. Journal of Medical Internet Research-Aging, 1(2), e12274. https://doi.org/10.2196/aging.12274
Andrew, M., Dupuis-Blanchard, S., Maxwell, C., Giguere, A., Keefe, J., Rockwood, K., & St. John, P. (2018). Social and societal implications of frailty, including impact on Canadian healthcare systems. Journal of Frailty and Aging, 7(4), 217-223. https://doi.org/10.14283/jfa.2018.30
Chamberlain, S., Weeks, L. E, & Keefe, J. (2017). Factors influencing family member perception of “homelikeness” in long term care homes. Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 31(4), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/02763893.2017.1335672
Keefe, J., Dill, D., Ogilvie, R., & Fancey, P. (2017). Examining a “Household” Model of Residential Long-term Care in Nova Scotia. Health Reform Observer, 5(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.13162/hro-ors.v5i1.2748
Godin, J., Keefe, J., & Andrew, M. K. (2016). Handling missing Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) values: Results from a cross-sectional long-term care study. Journal of Epidemiology, 27(4), 163-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.je.2016.05.001
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. https://doi.org/10.3138/cpp.2014-055
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. https://doi.org/10.1177/1074840714562645
Research Grants
Co-Investigator: Long Term Care Innovation Pilot Fund. (September 2025 -August 2026). Animating evidence: An innovative approach to sharing knowledge on long-term care research in Atlantic Canada. PI: Dicks, H. ($22,500).
Collaborator: New Horizons for Seniors Program. (March 2025- March 2026). Disrupting Ageism in Nova Scotia. PI: Aging Well Nova Scotia. ($24, 667).
Co-Investigator: Accelerating Clinical Trials/Accélérer les Essais Cliniques (ACT-AEC) Network Grant. (April 2024-March 2026). Collaborative for Caring for Long-Term Care. PIs: Hebert, P., Estabrooks, C., Costa, A. ($150,000).
Principal Investigator: Dementia: Understanding the Journey Society (May 2023-May 2024). Review and Revision of Dementia: Understanding the Journey. ($67,200).
Nominated Principal Investigator: CIHR Project Grant. (April 2023 – March 2027). An underrepresented, undervalued workforce: Understanding and supporting quality of work life in long-term care. PIs: Audas, R., Estabrooks, C., Tomblin Murphy, G., McCloskey, R. (CIHR: $2,103,752. (Health PEI Partner Funds: $10,000, Nova Scotia Health Partner Funds: $10,000; Newfoundland & Labrador Centre for Applied Health Research Partner Funds: $100,000, Research New Brunswick Partners Matching Fund: $150,000; Research Nova Scotia 2022-23 Intentional Initiatives Award: $414,405).
Principal Investigator: Caregivers Nova Scotia. (August 2022 – July 2023). Needs Assessment of Education and Training for Unpaid Caregivers in Nova Scotia. ($115,520).
Principal Investigator: Caregivers Nova Scotia. (July 2022 – July 2023). An Unpaid Caregiver Strategy for Nova Scotia. ($249,326).
Principal Investigator: Nova Scotia Health: Nova Scotia Health Research Fund (NSH-RF). (September 2022 – August 2024). Work Context in Long-term Care Homes: Impact on Staff and Resident Outcomes. Co-PIs: Estabrooks, C., Stevens, S. ($99,996).
Principal Investigator: CIHR-Institute of Aging: Summer Program in Aging. (June 2022 – June 2023). Growing Multidisciplinary Interest in the Oldest Old. (CIHR: $100,000; Nova Scotia Health Research Services: $10,000).
Co-Investigator: CIHR Project Grant. (April 2022– March 2025). Counting What Counts: Assessing Quality of Life and its Health and Social Determinants Among Long-Term Care Residents. NPI: Hoben, M. ($600,200).
Principal Investigator: Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia. (February – March 2022). Dementia Friendly Canada-Implementation Plan for Nova Scotia. ($23,400).
Principal Investigator: Healthcare Excellence Canada. (February – July 2022). Do LTC Family visitation programs hold up during times of active outbreaks of COVID-19: Lessons learned from essential care partners. ($30, 660).
Principal Investigator: Nursing Homes of Nova Scotia Association. (August 2021- May 2022). Mental health resiliency in long term care. ($67,200).
Principal Investigator: Healthcare Excellence Canada. (May-July 2021). Practices of interest to support in-person family presence and communication with families. ($18,000).
Principal Applicant: Nova Scotia Health. (April 2021–July 2022). Unsung Heroes: Long Term Care Staff’s Quality of Work Life. CoAs: Estabrooks, C., Stevens, S. ($99,951).
Nominated Principal Investigator: Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement Implementation Science Teams: Strengthening Pandemic Preparedness in Long-Term Care. (December 2020–October 2021). Implementation of policies that support and hinder families as partners in care during COVID-19 pandemic. ($149,984).
Co-Investigator: Nova Scotia COVID-19 Health Research Coalition: Rapid Research Call – COVID-19 Response. (June 2020-April 2021). Evidence to assess the impact of COVID-19 on community-based dementia care in Nova Scotia. PI: Aubrecht, K. ($54,908 CDN).
Co-Applicant: Department of Health & Wellness (April 2019 – March 2020). Research on Staffing Models for Long Term Care and Home Care in Nova Scotia. ($230,000).
Principal Applicant: Employment and Social Development Canada (February -May 2019). Synopsis of Seniors Strategies in Canada and Abroad. ($24,960)
Principal Applicant: CCA PAC (January – May 2019). Review and revision of the Continuing Care Assistant Curriculum Standards ($11,880).
Co-Applicant: SSHRC Insight Development Grant: An Arts-Informed Relational Approach to Understanding Nursing Home Staff Dementia & Mental Health Literacy (September 2018-June 2020). PA: Aubrecht, K.; Co-A.s: Keefe, J., Chandler, E., Rice, C., Dupuis, S., Kelly, C., Chivers, S., Wilson, K., Moody, E.; and 6 Collaborators ($67,949)
Co-Applicant: CIHR: Project Grant. (2018-2021). Sustainability, Sustainment, and Spread Study (SSaSSy): An Exploratory Study of Factors that Contribute to the Sustainability, Sustainment & Spread of a Complex Quality Improvement Intervention in Canadian Nursing Homes. Berta, WB (NPI), Estabrooks CE (Co-PI), Wagg A (Co-PI), Keefe J, plus other (Co-I) and 7 Collaborators: $967,724 (CAD).
Co-Applicant: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR): Planning and Dissemination Grant (2018- November 2019). Garcia, L. (Applicant). C-As: Drummond, N., McCleary, L., O’Sullivan, T., Robitaille, A. Engaging Canada in an international exchange on the positive aspects of caring for older adults (PACOA). ($19,020).
Nominated Principal Applicant: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (April 2018- April 2022). Project Grant: Fall 2017: How approaches to care shape the pathways of older adult home care clients. (865,980). (PA: Stevens, S. Co-Is: Donaldson, J., Funk, L., Graves, K., Lobchuk, M., Macdonald, Marilyn, MacDonald, Martha, MacDonald, MJ., Mitchell, L., Warner, G).
Principal Applicant: Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) (February- March 2018). Issues of interest to Canadians on Seniors’ Health. ($11,880)
Co-Applicant: Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation (NSHRF) (August 2017-August 2018) Development and Innovative Grant: The experiences and perceptions of unpaid caregivers providing care for community-dwelling adults with dementia: A qualitative systematic review. ($15,000). (Co-A: MacDonald, M.)
Principal Investigator: Province of Nova Scotia (July 2017- December 2018). Research project: older worker employment and labour force participation (Phase 1: $24,840, Phase 2: $48,060).
Co-Applicant: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (May 2017-May 2018). Planning and Dissemination Grant: Supporting dementia family caregivers in rural Canadian communities. ($19,609). (PA: Chiu, M.; Co-A’s Sadavoy, J., Lobchuk, M., Keefe, J.)
Principal Investigator: Seniors and Pensions Policy Secretariat, Employment and Social Development Canada. Is the financial well being of Canadian carers at risk? A think piece. ($8,000)
Principal Investigator: Veterans Affairs Canada. Strategic Program: Long term residential care in Canada: Current issues, best practices and future trends. ($19,920)
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.)