TIME: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Peggy Chi, a landscape architect and postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto is leading a transdisciplinary knowledge mobilization initiative relating to influences of built, naturalized, and psychosocial environments on both worker and resident outcomes in long-term care. Members are invited to the 2023/2024 Health Services Systems and Policy Seminar Series, entitled "Advances in Aging Environments Research & Practice." Architects can benefit from these seminars to update their knowledge in long-term care as they continue to plan for redevelopments and new constructions of long-term care homes.
These seminars will be held online via Zoom. Zoom links will be sent upon registration on EventBrite. This is an open seminar where everyone within the broad University of Toronto community, and within the networks of University of Toronto community members, are welcome to attend. Registration is required to receive zoom links.
2023-2024 Theme:
Advances in Aging Environments Research & Practice: What We Know & Don’t Know About the Influences of Psychosocial & Physical Work Environments on Workers and Their Work
Session Abstract:
In the presentation, Dr. Anne Killett will talk about the active involvement of older adults in shaping research about aging environments and systems of care. Older people who have moved into long term care are still not routinely treated as ‘the public’ in public involvement activities to develop research. Yet this group are ‘the public’, outcomes for whom are the focus of research related to care homes. I will draw on examples of research on a minimum data set for English care homes and a non-pharmacological intervention for people with dementia with sleep difficulties. The presentation will consider some of the effects and sequalae of the approach of researchers, older people and activity facilitators working together to bring relevant public involvement into the research, the challenges of honoring values to work well with people, and will locate the work critically in the public involvement literature.
Speaker:
Anne Killett, PhD | Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy, Director of Research in the School of Health Sciences at the University of East Anglia