Research at Deer Lodge Centre

Current Research

Below are profiles of selected research projects currently underway or recently concluded at Deer Lodge Centre. Click on the study code to download an overview of each project.

Dementia and Dementia Care

DLC08-102 Effects of Chronic Stress on Caregiver Attention (MacKenzie & Koven).

DLC08-105 Patterns of Resource Utilization by Medical and Social Service Professionals and Unpaid Care Providers: Knowledge transfer, translation, and dissemination (Stieber-Roger).

DLC08-309 Psychometric Evaluation of the PACCI (Pain Assessment in the Cognitively/Communicatively Impaired) Tool (Hamel).

DLC08-111 (a) The use of a Social Assistive Robot in a Long-Term Care Facility: Staff Perceptions of Benefits, Drawbacks, and Concerns (Guse). (b) The use of a Social Assistive Robot with Residents in a Long-Term Care Facility: A Pilot Study of Interactions (Guse).

 

Military Medicine

DLC08-112 Permission to use Information Collected in OSI Clinic Services for Research Purposes (Laforce).

DLC09-301 Does the Stress Eraser Reduce Anxiety in a Military Population: A Pilot Study (Enns & Adduri).

 

Other topics

DLC08-201 Emergency Room Referrals to a Geriatric Outreach Team: The Analysis of Referral Reasons (Kliewer).

DLC08-104 Planning for Patient Safety: Exploring Strategies to Reduce a Person’s Risk of Adverse Events When Transitioning Between Day Hospital and Community Based Care (Van Ineveld).

DLC08-306 Psychiatric Complications of Parkinson’s Disease (Lazareck).

DLC08-107 Developing a Predictive Model of Family Satisfaction with End-of-Life Care in Personal Care Homes (Thompson).

DLC08-108 Dignity and Distress Across End-Of-Life Populations (Chochinov).

DLC08-210 The Personal Care Home Doors Swing Both Ways: The Experiences of Older Women Whose Spouses are in Personal Care Homes (Pancoe).

DLC08-213 Nutritional Composition and Indications for the Blenderized and Pureed Diet (Mayor).

DLC08-214 Use of Thickened Fluids/Supplements in Long Term Care (Machel).

DLC08-115 The Relationships Between Safety Climate Perceptions, Personality, and Employee Burnout (Bruning).

 

Recently Concluded Studies

None at this time.