Grant: Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

This proposal is for both a dissemination and a planning activity. The goal of the dissemination activity is to conduct a one-day integrated, knowledge translation symposium in which knowledge producers and users come together to use evidence to develop a model of care for structurally vulnerable people at the end of life (EOL) and strategies to move this knowledge into action. The dissemination activity has three primary objectives: (1) To share evidence generated from a research project on EOL care for vulnerable and marginalized populations; (2) To engage knowledge users in interpreting the evidence; and (3) To begin to establish consensus and a strategy on developing a model of care that can be used to guide the expansion and development of health services for structurally vulnerable people at the EOL. The goal of the planning activity is to conduct a one-day research planning meeting to determine next steps in the research program and to engage additional knowledge users in our research. Outcomes include:(1) A report back to symposium participants; (2) A discussion paper to be published in a peer reviewed journal; (3) development of plain language summaries, media releases, and user-friendly infographics that can be used to further disseminate research and symposium findings; and (4) A research proposal that will be submitted to CIHR. Knowledge users who have helped to plan this symposium are Kvakic, Showler, and Dosani who all work with structurally vulnerable populations at the EOL.