Empowering Ontario’s Long-term Care Residents to Shape the Place they call Home
Our objective is to empower long-term care (LTC) home residents to shape the place they call home. Our
project brings together researchers, LTC residents and highly qualified personnel in their shared interests in
engagement and quality of life in LTC homes.
Lead: Jennifer Bethell
Social Connection in Long-term Care Home Residents (SONNET) Study
Social connection in long-term care home residents (called SONNET Study) was created to improve measurement of this person-centred outcome by evaluating existing measures and develop a new validated measurement approach.
Lead: Jennifer Bethell
Engagement of People with Lived Experience of Dementia (EPLED)
The Engagement of People with Lived Experience of Dementia (EPLED) is a new program introduced for the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA) phase II.
Lead: Jennifer Bethell
As an epidemiologist and health services researcher, Dr. Bethell is interested in using large health administrative and survey datasets for research and reporting on health outcomes. To date, her work in this area has been focused on topics related to mental health, injuries and prescription medication use and how these issues influence health across the life course. She is also interested in patient engagement in research, particularly research related to dementia, and has been co-leading the Engagement of People with Lived Experience of Dementia (EPLED) program within the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA). Her research interests also include social connection, older adults and long-term care settings.