Grant: Team Grant: CCNA Phase III: Research Teams

Close to 733,000 Canadians live with dementia and many more people living with dementia will require care in the future. Currently Canada's health system struggles to provide high-quality care for people living with dementia. For example, people find it takes a long time to see family physicians and specialists, and home care services can be inconsistent. If we could compare and report on the quality of dementia health services within and across provinces, it would help to identify gaps in care and improve quality of life of people living with dementia and their care partners. Starting with Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario, we will build a team to conduct needed research on the dementia health system in priority areas for people living with dementia and their care partners. We will do this by analyzing health encounter data (also known as health administrative data) which is routinely collected across all provinces as part of care delivery. We will be able to analyze data on every person living with dementia in each province. We will also measure the quality of dementia health care services across provinces and share our findings publicly. Over the four years of the grant, we will grow our team to include additional provinces and territories. Through our team we will also train the next generation of researchers, build and strengthen ties to national and international research teams, and incorporate the perspective of people living with dementia and their care partners, health care providers, policymakers, and other groups. Our overall goal is to improve the quality of life for people living with dementia with timely evidence to support care planning for Canadians and their families.