PACIFIC – A Post-Acute Care Intervention for Frailty using Information and Communication Technology
major program of research
Leveraging today’s health technology to co-design a complex community-based frailty intervention for older post-acute care patients.
Background
Older people who have frailty are not able to cope well when they have a minor sickness or injury. Frailty can make a person’s physical, functional, social, and mental health worse. Having to stay in hospital is quite stressful for older people, but being frail makes recovery harder. We need to have good treatments and programs to help them when they go home.
Objective and Methods
The research question is “Can a combined package of treatments and local programs (that we know work based on evidence) make life better for older people with frailty who are going home from hospital?”
This project will design the study with input from older adults and those who take care of them (family members, doctors and nurses, and people from community organizations in Hamilton). Our goal is to package together programs that are already happening in Hamilton and some treatments in a new way.
Investigators
Project Lead: Lauren Griffith
Steven Bray, Science, McMaster
Constance Dupuis, Gilbrea Centre for Studies in Aging, McMaster
Louise Lafortune, University of Cambridge
Darryl Leong, Health Sciences, McMaster
Jacob Crawshaw, Centre for Evidence-Based Implementation, Hamilton Health Sciences
Karen Mosleh, Centre for Evidence-Based Implementation, Hamilton Health Sciences
Rachel Roy, City of Hamilton
