Research Assistant - Remembering When
Preferred learners
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Academic experience
Categories
Skills
Project scope
- What is the main goal for this project?
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Remembering When, an international program, proactively provides education opportunities for older adults on how to identify and eliminate fire and fall hazards in their home, how to prevent fires and falls and how to escape from a fire. The Saskatoon program also focuses on how to get up after a fall. The goal of the program is twofold:
• help older adults eliminate fire and fall hazards, enabling them to age safely in their home of choice, and
• connect them to helpful resources before they experience five or more fall incidents.
In January 2017, the SFD started Remembering When in partnership with the Saskatoon Council on Aging (SCOA) to enhance their public education programming. Remembering When communicates primarily through group presentations, home visits and follow-up telephone calls. In addition to Remembering When’s 16 safety messages, the program uses guidelines provided by the Public Health Agency of Canada to teach people how to get up after a fall if they have not hurt themselves and how to help someone up who has not injured themselves (Canada, 2020).
The goal of the project is to evaluate the implementation of a postcard related to fire and fall safety and medications related to falls. The postcard has been designed and will be piloted June 2021, with data collection beginning July 2021.
2 students - working as a team and in some instances, individually
The research assistants will support the research initiatives under the guidance of research faculty. Areas of inquiry include: older adults living in community, healthcare, not-for-profit organization, and private business (pharmacy).
The position requires skills in writing a research proposal, data collection (quantitative and qualitative), data analysis, data display, writing, computer skills.
The project may include, but is not limited to:
Phase 1: Completed (June 2021)
Phase 2: Quantitative Research (July 2021)
- Overseeing and individually collecting quantitative data, data manipulation, and data storage
- Planning and performing data analysis, including development of evaluation tool
- What is the main goal for this project?
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Remembering When, an international program, proactively provides education opportunities for older adults on how to identify and eliminate fire and fall hazards in their home, how to prevent fires and falls and how to escape from a fire. The Saskatoon program also focuses on how to get up after a fall. The goal of the program is twofold:
• help older adults eliminate fire and fall hazards, enabling them to age safely in their home of choice, and
• connect them to helpful resources before they experience five or more fall incidents.
In January 2017, the SFD started Remembering When in partnership with the Saskatoon Council on Aging (SCOA) to enhance their public education programming. Remembering When communicates primarily through group presentations, home visits and follow-up telephone calls. In addition to Remembering When’s 16 safety messages, the program uses guidelines provided by the Public Health Agency of Canada to teach people how to get up after a fall if they have not hurt themselves and how to help someone up who has not injured themselves (Canada, 2020).
The goal of the project is to evaluate the implementation of a postcard related to fire and fall safety and medications related to falls. The postcard has been designed and will be piloted June 2021, with data collection beginning July 2021.
2 students - working as a team and in some instances, individually
The research assistants will support the research initiatives under the guidance of research faculty. Areas of inquiry include: older adults living in community, healthcare, not-for-profit organization, and private business (pharmacy).
The position requires skills in writing a research proposal, data collection (quantitative and qualitative), data analysis, data display, writing, computer skills.
The project may include, but is not limited to:
Phase 1: Completed (June 2021)
Phase 2: Quantitative Research (July 2021)
- Overseeing and individually collecting quantitative data, data manipulation, and data storage
- Planning and performing data analysis, including development of evaluation tool
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
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No deliverables exist for this project.
About the company
- https://betterltc.ca
- 2 - 10 employees
- Hospital, health, wellness & medical
BetterLTC (led by Dr. Roslyn M. Compton) was established in 2013. The team is interprofessional, national and international, and intergenerational (age range 18-85 years; 15 older adults between 65-85 years of age). Through our collaborations and partnerships with for-profit and not-for-profit community organizations, BetterLTC acts through knowledge mobilization, education, advocacy, and policy to challenge ageist healthcare services to support older adults to grow older in their choice of place with the support and services needed. Current partners include Sherbrooke Community Centre, Saskatoon; Golden Health Care Management Inc., Saskatoon; 3 rural and 3 urban long-term care homes in Saskatchewan; Saskatoon Fire Services; College of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta; College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan; St. Thomas More College, Saskatoon; University of Regina, Regina; Memory Café, Crossmount Saskatoon; Saskatoon Council on Aging; Saskatchewan Long-term Care Network; Interprofessional Education, USask Health Science; the Saskatchewan Health Authority; Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association; Nav-CARE, British Columbia; and, the Canadian Red Cross.