Grant: Team Grant: Community-Based Primary Healthcare - LOI

This project focuses on persons who have or can potentially have mental health and cognitive disabilities. We aim to evaluate a person-centred approach to care in the primary health care setting that focuses on the ability to address the basic need for engagement in meaningful activities such as self and family care, paid employment, and social and leisure activities, as identified by clients. This approach is currently lacking in primary health care settings. Increased engagement in everyday activities is expected to reduce disability and improve health and economic well-being, while reducing visits to emergency departments, physicians' offices, hospitals and nursing homes. Our international and multi-disciplinary team proposes to collaborate and test models of care across Canada and New Zealand.