Rural Healthcare in Saskatchewan

In recent years, concerns have been raised by healthcare workers, and by the public, about shifts in the delivery of healthcare in rural Saskatchewan. CUPE Local 5430, which represents an array of healthcare and ancillary workers, has expressed an interest in understanding how recent changes in the delivery of healthcare in rural parts of the province have impacted their members and what these changes might mean for the overall direction of rural health service delivery in the province. The goal of this research project is to provide a picture of what changes have occurred over the past five years.

Newsletter - Dementia in SK

First newsletter for the Interventions to Enhance Social Inclusion of Older Adults with Dementia in Saskatchewan.

Dementia Supports in Rural Saskatchewan

The project team is collaborating with the Alzheimer Society of Saskatchewan and other provincial and local organizations to design and implement individual, community and organizational level interventions that enhance social inclusion of older adults with dementia living in small towns and rural communities in Saskatchewan.

Reducing the Social Isolation of Older Adults - A Scoping Review of Interventions

The purpose of this scoping review was to assess the current research literature that describes the implementation and assessment of interventions and their associated outcomes related to reducing social isolation of older adults. The review was completed by the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU) as part of the collective impact evaluation of the Reducing Isolation of Seniors Collective (RISC), a project funded by the federal New Horizons for Seniors Program. In 2015 Employment and Service Development Canada announced a call for proposals to reduce social isolation of seniors using a collective impact approach which “brings together a group of collaborating organizations from different sectors to commit to a common agenda aiming for significant changes in their community”

Healthy aging in place

Improving rural and northern Aboriginal seniors’ health through policy and community level interventions (2011-2014)