Our Research
Bruyère Health Research Institute conducts world-class research to maximize quality of life and shape the future of health care.
Our research priorities include Memory, Aging in Place, and Long-Term Care, Palliative Care, Rehabilitation and Recovery, and Social Accountability (with a focus on Primary Care and Health Equity).
Memory, Aging in Place, and Long-Term Care
Around the world, the population of people over the age of 65 is growing faster than any other age group. While people are living longer thanks to medical breakthroughs, older adults are likely to have complex health care needs that our health system and caregivers need to prepare for.
Our research on aging is centered on improving quality of life, supporting independence, and access to health and social care for older adults, their families, and caregivers.
We are addressing some of the most pressing concerns for older adults, including the rising prevalence of dementia, strategies for aging in place, and the future of long-term care and assisted living.
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Palliative Care
With a palliative approach to care, we seek to provide patients with the right treatment and care at every stage, focusing on comfort and quality of life. But not everyone is getting this type of care when or where they need it most.
In the face of life-limiting illness, our research seeks to understand, address, and treat symptoms, suffering, and grief and to design and implement strategies for palliative care delivery in hospital and home.
Through nationwide collaborations and clinical trials, we are leading the way in finding reliable ways to identify when patients could benefit from a transition to palliative care and to promote equitable access to care, while improving the end-of-life journey for patients and their loved ones.
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Rehabilitation and Recovery
Recovery is a process that keeps on going past the doors of the emergency room. Advances in acute care mean more people are surviving stroke, falls, and other health complications.
At a moment when patients seek stability, our research has paved a foundation for recovery and clinical assessments in stroke, geriatric, and neurological rehabilitation and in complex continuing care.
We believe in advancing the gold standard of therapies and enhancing recovery protocols, therapeutic techniques, and tele-rehabilitation to drive better, accessible, and impactful care.
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Social Accountability
Since the founding of Bruyère Health, we have been committed to serving some of our most vulnerable community members.
Social accountability is our commitment to optimizing care delivery and addressing the priority health concerns and well-being of the communities and regions we serve,
while training the next generation to do the same.
Our research aims to ensure that patients are achieving better health outcomes at the right time, place, and level of care. We take lessons learned from local and global health initiatives while pursuing equity, effectiveness, and accessibility of interventions to ensure nobody is left behind.
Primary Care: optimizing models of care delivery and accessibility to ensure that patients are achieving better health outcomes at the right time, place, and level of care.
Health Equity: investing in local and global health initiatives while pursuing equity, effectiveness, and accessibility of interventions throughout care.
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