Archives: LTC

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Maryam Attef, Chantal Trudel, Laura Ault, Piers Waldie, Nadine Carroll, Rafik Goubran, Amy Hsu, Mirou Jaana, Heidi Sveistrup, Patrick Tan, Neil Thomas, Bruce Wallace, Frank Knoefel, “Developing Smart Technology for Dementia Care in Transitional Care Units: Barriers to Participant Engagement & Alternative Strategies”, Proceedings of the 2024 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care, 2024.

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Thursday, July 13, 2023

AGE-WELL SAM3 Book on Supportive Smart Homes

Link to Publisher Page About this book Significant health-industry human resource needs increase the reliance on family and friends to support older adults hoping to age in place. This book explores how recent improvements in integrated home technologies have the potential to address those challenges. The book considers how embedded home sensors... More

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Ingenious Talks Online: Design of Long-Term Care Homes (LTC): Learning for the Future

Join us on Wednesday, January 20! Replay Link The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the vulnerability of Long Term Care (LTC) homes throughout the world, with many countries reporting a troubling number of cases and deaths in LTC. Infection prevention and control protocols for hospital settings are relatively well-established to support hand hygiene,... More

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Industrial Design Grant to Study Long-Term Care Homes

Infection prevention and control in clinical settings is challenging enough. What about in long-term care and retirement homes – places that are designed to have communal and open spaces? Chantal Trudel of Carleton University’s School of Industrial Design is working with investigators from the Bruyère Research Institute and the Ontario... More

Monday, June 8, 2020

Carleton COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund Award

COVID-19 – Design of Long-Term Care Homes (LTC) – Learning for the Future The appropriate design of long-term care (LTC) homes is crucial in balancing infection prevention and control (IPAC) with residents’ quality of life and care, particularly during pandemic conditions such as COVID-19. While hospital IPAC protocols are relatively... More

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