McMaster Collaborative for Health and Aging

Working together to improve the health and well-being of older Canadians by advancing patient-oriented health research on aging

[McMaster Collaborative for Health and Aging @MacCollabAging]

📝Working on a proposal in health and aging? The CIHR Project Grant competition (Fall 2025) is open. Let’s strengthen your research through with community engagement.

We help you plan, partner, and communicate with older adults, caregivers, and health system providers.

We can help with:
✔️ Community engagement planning and partnership facilitation
✔️Letters of support
✔️ Plain language and accessibility review and support
✔️Knowledge mobilization planning
✔️Facilitating connections with older adults, caregivers, and researchers with shared research interests and expertise

🔗 Find out how we can help: https://t.co/V77axKNKF6

#CIHR #AgingResearch #HealthResearch #PatientEngagement #HealthAging #McMasterUniversity

[McMaster Collaborative for Health and Aging @MacCollabAging]

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Lance Dingman, a cherished member of our community. Lance brought wisdom, warmth, and generosity to every conversation. He made a lasting impact, offering insight that challenged, inspired, and grounded us.

Lance was also a tireless advocate for mental health, accessible housing and disability rights. His lived experience shaped and strengthened our work in lasting ways, and his advocacy left a meaningful legacy beyond the Collaborative. We are grateful to have known him, and he will be dearly missed.

Here is an interview with Lance we proudly shared during his time with us: https://t.co/jKv9CUMbyC

His words will always stay with us.

[McMaster Collaborative for Health and Aging @MacCollabAging]

What happens when statistical trial results and lived experiences tell different stories?

A new paper led by @ACHRU_McMaster explores the value of combining quantitative and qualitative data to evaluate a lifestyle intervention for older adults with diabetes and other chronic conditions.

Despite no statistically significant quantitative findings, interviews with patients, caregivers, and providers revealed meaningful changes:
✔️ stronger team collaboration
✔️ improved system navigation
✔️ more person-centered care
✔️ improved self-management of chronic conditions
✔️ increased potential for virtual delivery of care

By integrating lived experience with statistical findings, the paper demonstrates how mixed methods can clarify next steps for research, care delivery, and policy.

Read in Trials (May 2025): Transforming healthcare by prioritizing qualitative and quantitative clinical trial evidence: evaluating the Aging, Community and Health Research Unit’s Community Partnership Program for Older Adults (ACHRU-CPP)
🔗https://t.co/dqesTu7zgl

✍️Authors: Kathryn Fisher, Soo Chan Carusone, @RebeccaGanann, @MaureMarkleReid, Melissa Northwood & Diana Sherifali

💡Funded by @CIHR_IRSC SPOR PIHCI Network, with support from: @_DiabetesAction, @MIRAMcMaster,
@macnursing, @reseau1quebec, @FRQS1, @SHNFoundation, CIHR Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (@MaureMarkleReid), @MacCollabAging

[McMaster Collaborative for Health and Aging @MacCollabAging]

📢 Trainees! Want to make your research more inclusive + impactful? Join us May 9 for Partnered Research 101 — a workshop on building equitable, community-informed research partnerships.

🗓 Date: Friday, May 9, 2025
🕘 Time: 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
📍 Location: L.R. Wilson Hall, McMaster University, Room 1056

In this interactive session, you’ll explore:
✅ Why community engagement matters
✅ Practical strategies for building equitable partnerships
✅ Real-world examples across the research cycle
✅ How to refine your lay abstracts

🔗 Register now! https://t.co/efKZEbGfa3

Everyone is welcome — undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdocs from all institutions! Feel free to share widely across your networks.
#ResearchDoneInPartnership #AgingResearch

[McMaster Collaborative for Health and Aging @MacCollabAging]

Trainees: Are you planning to submit an application to our Partnership in Research Fellowship to support meaningful and ethical engagement of older adults and/or caregivers in your research?

The deadline is tomorrow, Tuesday, April 15, 2025! Apply now: https://t.co/Xf8flnrepb

[McMaster Collaborative for Health and Aging @MacCollabAging]

Register for latest virtual Collaborative Conversation taking place today at 12 p.m. ET. ➡️➡️➡️Sign up here: https://t.co/Pa6GEzYbxT

[McMaster Collaborative for Health and Aging @MacCollabAging]

🔍 How can people with lived experience shape systematic reviews? Join us on March 3 at 12 p.m. ET for a virtual Collaborative Conversation on partnership in systematic reviews, featuring @ksnoguchi Kenny Noguchi & Patient Partner Advisors!

🎯What you'll learn:
✔ Methods to include partners in systematic reviews
✔ Key lessons from a partnership-driven systematic review on strength training for stroke recovery

📅 March 3, 2025
🕛 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET (Webinar)
💬️1:00–1:30 p.m. ET (Reflecting Together)
➡️ Register now: https://t.co/AWBIAX3VPY

Featured Research: Prescribing strength training for stroke recovery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials: https://t.co/7dZf1EzoRt

💻Watch past webinars here: https://t.co/XY5DQzWYG1

#SystematicReview #StrokeRecovery #HealthResearch #PatientOrientedResearch

[McMaster OCE @McMasterOCE]

📚🤝Join @mcmasteroce & @Spark_McMaster on March 27-28th for #CERDay!

👥4 expert-led workshops + a Research Gallery showcasing local CER projects. Open to McMaster & community orgs/members!

🔗 Showcase your project: https://t.co/j789Ggqawt
🔗 Register: https://t.co/vT7G9nMISu

[McMaster Collaborative for Health and Aging @MacCollabAging]

🔍 How can people with lived experience shape systematic reviews? Join us on March 3 at 12 p.m. ET for a virtual Collaborative Conversation on partnership in systematic reviews, featuring @ksnoguchi Kenny Noguchi & Patient Partner Advisors!

🎯What you'll learn:
✔ Methods to include partners in systematic reviews
✔ Key lessons from a partnership-driven systematic review on strength training for stroke recovery

📅 March 3, 2025
🕛 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET (Webinar)
💬️1:00–1:30 p.m. ET (Reflecting Together)
➡️ Register now: https://t.co/AWBIAX3VPY

Featured Research: Prescribing strength training for stroke recovery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials: https://t.co/7dZf1EzoRt

💻Watch past webinars here: https://t.co/XY5DQzWYG1

#SystematicReview #StrokeRecovery #HealthResearch #PatientOrientedResearch

[McMaster Collaborative for Health and Aging @MacCollabAging]

Last chance to register for our upcoming webinar with @OARCnews on engaging residents in long-term care organizational design and governance taking place on Monday, January 27 at 12 p.m. EST ➡️https://t.co/Ryy0edB5TV

[McMaster Collaborative for Health and Aging @MacCollabAging]

Join us for our next Collaborative Conversation on Mon., Jan 27 at 12 p.m. EST with @OARCnews!

Collaborating for Change: A Co-Design Approach to Resident Engagement in Long-Term Care Homes
How can collaboration and partnership strengthen resident engagement in long-term care homes? Register now for our upcoming webinar exploring:

- Current practices, barriers, enablers, and impacts of resident engagement in organizational design and governance
- Ways to include knowledge users within the research process
- A new toolkit to enable meaningful resident engagement in LTC home organizational design and governance

📍 Virtual
📅 Mon., Jan 27, 2025 | 12 p.m. EST
🔗 https://t.co/38df1B1jg5

#AskaResidentFIRST #ResidentLeaders #ExpertsbyExperience #ForResidentsByResidents #PatientOrientedResearch #LongTermCare

[AbSPORU @AbSPORU]

Please join the McMaster Collaborative for Health and Aging for this timely topic! Current practices, barriers, enablers, and impacts of resident engagement in organizational design and governance are so important.

[McMaster Collaborative for Health and Aging @MacCollabAging]

OSSU's 4th ed. of the Capacity Building Compendium is an excellent resource for those working or interested in #PatientOrientedResearch, offering a comprehensive list of training opportunities and resources across Ontario. f

📢 Look for these resources and tools from the Collaborative:

- Collaborative Conversations: A virtual space for researchers and partners to learn and reflect on patient engagement.
- Learning Hub: Resources to build equity-centered research partnerships.
- Partnership in Research Fellowship (coming soon!): Supporting trainees in their #AgingResearch.
- Developing Complex Patient-Oriented Health Interventions: An interactive learning module.
- Preparing for Patient-Oriented Research Meetings with Older Adults and Caregivers Workbook: Tools for planning effective POR meetings.

Check out our website for more resources and supports: https://t.co/48ghLhVwo1

[OSSU Tweets @OSSUtweets]

We invite you to register for our 2025 Research Day on Thursday, April 10, 2025. Join us as we celebrate 10 years of advancing #patientorientedresearch in Ontario with an engaging lineup of sessions and discussions! https://t.co/4zgy1DkBOQ

[Gilbrea Centre @GilbreaCentre]

Happy New Year! Just a reminder that the deadline for the Karl Kinanen Graduate Research Scholarship is January 17th! Still time to apply! Learn more: https://t.co/yV1oKJWCbH

[Diabetes Action Can. @_DiabetesAction]

🚨 Big news! The Diabetes Action Community Hub is here—a living directory of support groups, organizations, & resources for people living with diabetes and their supporters.

💙 Built for the community, by the community.

📲 Explore & submit resources: https://t.co/VpX73Ub7vB