Joanie Sims-Gould
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 300885 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Joanie Sims-Gould |
| NOMBRES | Joanie |
| APELLIDO | Sims-Gould |
| FIRMA | SIMS-GOULD J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1260-5405 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 188 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
A Characterization of Older Adults in Primary Care in Three Canadian Provinces
Background Understanding the characteristics of older patients in primary care is important to develop appropriate and targeted programs. Objective We describe the characteristics of older adults (aged 70+) accessing primary care in three Canadian provinces. Methods Participants (n = 594) completed a survey package comprising demographics, health system usage, presence of chronic conditions, and a quality-of-life measure, the EQ-5D-5L. Frailty wa…
No short cuts
Racialized immigrant older adults (RIOAs) in Canada and other Global North countries face significant health inequities, yet remain underrepresented in health research and lack culturally appropriate health programs. While trust-building is essential for equitable community-engaged research, it requires time-intensive efforts to address cultural nuances, systemic barriers, and historical harms—often conflicting with institutional pressures for ef…
Negotiating connections, confinements, and neighbourhood places
Material, relational, subjective, psychological, and environmental dimensions matter for well-being. • Home and neighbourhood characteristics were central to older adults’ well-being. • Home comforts, technology, and neighbourhood amenities enhanced participants’ well-being. • Confinement in insufficient homes and compounding factors diminished participants’ well-being. • Some participants grew fatigued and participated less in their neighbourhoo…
I'm New to This
The COVID-19 pandemic forced a shift in long established participatory visual qualitative methods. Some researchers adapted photovoice- which traditionally happens in-person-and used technology to connect with participants referred to as 'digitally mediated photovoice'. Collective knowledge about best practices for digitally mediated photovoice to support and enhance research with older adults is in its infancy. Thus, to advance the field, we des…
Effects of the Mobility-Fit Physical Activity Program on Strength and Mobility in Older Adults in Assisted Living
Physical activity programs focusing on fall prevention often overlook upper-limb strength, which is important for transferring, balance recovery, and arresting a fall. We developed and evaluated a physical activity program, Mobility-Fit for older adults in Assisted Living (AL) that includes upper-limb strengthening, agility, coordination, and balance exercises. Thirty participants (85 ± 6 years) were recruited from two AL facilities; 15 were assi…
Rapidly adapting an effective health promoting intervention for older adults—choose to move—for virtual delivery during the Covid-19 pandemic
It was feasible and acceptable to deliver CTM virtually. Programs such as CTM have potential to mitigate the unintended consequences of public health orders during COVID associated with reduced physical activity, social isolation, and loneliness. Adaptation and implementation strategies must be informed by community delivery partners and older adults themselves. Pragmatic, virtual health promoting interventions that can be adapted as contexts rap…
Implementation of an integrated care pathway in primary care clinics to improve the health of older adults
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
We see each other from a distance”
Strategies that foster social connectedness over the longer term, need to prioritize the needs of older adults who face multiple barriers to equitable social participation
How central support built capacity to deliver a health‐promoting intervention for older adults in Canada
Most implementation frameworks note that a central support unit (CSU) is key to successful implementation and scale-up of evidence-based interventions (EBIs). However, few studies investigated core functions of CSUs-such as capacity building-to better understand their essential role in implementing EBIs at scale. Therefore, the aims of our study are to (1) describe the role that a CSU plays to build capacity in delivery partner organisations, to …
It makes me feel not so alone”
Health promoting interventions that focus on PA and social connectedness through group-based activities can effectively reduce social isolation and loneliness of older adults. Given the 'epidemic of loneliness' that plagues many countries currently, these kinds of interventions are timely and important. Research that further delineates mechanisms (e.g., sharing experiences vs. lectures), that modify the effect of an intervention on social connect…
Safety perceptions of older adults on an urban greenway
and discussion: We conducted thematic analysis to illuminate older adults' experiences across three safety domains: personal safety, traffic safety, and security. Built environment features such as benches, paving, road markings, and natural foliage buffers intersected with elements of the social environment to influence older adults' perceived safety. While the greenway supported active transportation, leisure, and social engagement for many old…
Re-framing mobility in older adults
Although there is widespread acceptance regarding the importance of mobility in older adults, there have been few attempts to bridge disciplines and move beyond the predominant focus on functional aspects of mobility. In this article, we present an adapted mobility framework with the goal of continued development to acknowledge the subjective and temporal elements of movement in order to comprehensively conceptualize mobility. The adapted framewo…
Home Support Workers and Older Men
With increased longevity, growing numbers of older men are using home support services. The provision of care by (mostly female) workers to male clients raises questions regarding the negotiation of gender and age relations in the private sphere of the home. In this article, we explore how home care providers confront and respond to masculinity when supporting older men. Our analysis is based on semistructured interviews with twenty-four home car…
Interact
INTERACT aims to advance the evidence base on population health intervention research and address challenges related to big data, knowledge mobilization and engagement, ethics, and causality. We will collect ~ 100 TB of sensor data from participants over 5 years. We will address these challenges using interdisciplinary partnerships, training of highly qualified personnel, and modern methodologies for using sensor-based data
Factors that influence implementation at scale of a community-based health promotion intervention for older adults
Even relatively simple evidence-based interventions can be challenging to scale-up and sustain. To ensure successful implementation it is essential to align with multilevel socioecological perspectives and assess the vast array of contextual factors that are at the core of better understanding successful implementation
Implementing a new model in primary care for older canadians living with frailty
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
It makes your life worthwhile. It gives you a purpose in living’
The World Health Organization claims that mobility is vital to healthy ageing and is the best guarantee of older adults being able to cope and remain in their homes and communities. Mobility enables older adults to maintain their physical health, independence and participation in society. In general, mobility is examined objectively, from a quantitative perspective where mobility is measured as physical movement ( e.g. physical activity) and/or t…
Distance, privacy and independence
Implementation of a co-designed physical activity program for older adults
CTM adopted central tenets of implementation science that consider the complicated systems where interventions are delivered to improve public health. In this iteration of CTM we demonstrate that a partner-based health promotion intervention can be effectively implemented across settings to enhance PA, mobility and social connectedness in older adults
Fostering Inter-Agency Collaboration for the Delivery of Community-Based Services for Older Adults
Organisations promoting health and social outcomes are grappling with two concurrent realities: dwindling budgets and declining state support; and a rapidly ageing population. This is true for all levels of government, non-governmental organisations and non-profits. This study assessed the process and extent to which four non-profit organisations collaborated to meet service objectives related to older adults in a local area. A collaboration surv…
Developing a comprehensive measure of mobility
MOVES is a holistic measure of mobility for characterizing older adult mobility across populations. Future work should examine individual or neighborhood predictors of MOVES and its relationship to broader health outcomes. MOVES holds utility for research, surveillance, evaluation, and interventions around the broad factors influencing mobility in older adults
A grounded visualization approach to explore sociospatial and temporal complexities of older adults' mobility
InterActive Interpreted Interviews (I3)
Benches become like porches
Canada’s Complex and Fractionalized Home Care Context
In Canada, home care provides health and social services to an estimated one million people, most of them older adults. In the absence of national policy directives, services vary considerably from one jurisdiction to the next, in what has been called a “checkerboard” of policy and practice. This paper examines policy-relevant issues in the provision of home care services, focusing specifically on “home support” services delivered by unregulated …
Therapeutic landscapes and wellbeing in later life
Benches become like porches
Where do they go and how do they get there? Older adults' travel behaviour in a highly walkable environment
A grounded visualization approach to explore sociospatial and temporal complexities of older adults' mobility
The secrets of highly active older adults
We share the care
Although both family care and home support are considered essential components of home-based health-care, the experiences of family caregivers who have a relative in receipt of home support services are not well understood. Little is known about what aspects of home support services assist family caregivers or hinder them in their caregiving. This study examines family member's experiences of the home support services received by their elderly re…
We see each other from a distance”
Strategies that foster social connectedness over the longer term, need to prioritize the needs of older adults who face multiple barriers to equitable social participation
She was a little bit unrealistic”
Safety perceptions of older adults on an urban greenway
and discussion: We conducted thematic analysis to illuminate older adults' experiences across three safety domains: personal safety, traffic safety, and security. Built environment features such as benches, paving, road markings, and natural foliage buffers intersected with elements of the social environment to influence older adults' perceived safety. While the greenway supported active transportation, leisure, and social engagement for many old…
It makes your life worthwhile. It gives you a purpose in living’
The World Health Organization claims that mobility is vital to healthy ageing and is the best guarantee of older adults being able to cope and remain in their homes and communities. Mobility enables older adults to maintain their physical health, independence and participation in society. In general, mobility is examined objectively, from a quantitative perspective where mobility is measured as physical movement ( e.g. physical activity) and/or t…
I'm New to This
The COVID-19 pandemic forced a shift in long established participatory visual qualitative methods. Some researchers adapted photovoice- which traditionally happens in-person-and used technology to connect with participants referred to as 'digitally mediated photovoice'. Collective knowledge about best practices for digitally mediated photovoice to support and enhance research with older adults is in its infancy. Thus, to advance the field, we des…
InterActive Interpreted Interviews (I3)
Fostering Inter-Agency Collaboration for the Delivery of Community-Based Services for Older Adults
Organisations promoting health and social outcomes are grappling with two concurrent realities: dwindling budgets and declining state support; and a rapidly ageing population. This is true for all levels of government, non-governmental organisations and non-profits. This study assessed the process and extent to which four non-profit organisations collaborated to meet service objectives related to older adults in a local area. A collaboration surv…
Themes in Family Care-Giving
This study advances the understanding of family care-giving by examining the provision of care to an older relative by adult children. It focuses on examining ‘who helps whom’ by extending analyses beyond the typical dyadic focus of care-giving in later life. The data for this research are derived from CARNET: The Canadian Aging Research Network’s survey of employed Canadians. Specifically, the analysis focuses on verbatim data collected from fif…
Themes in Family Care-Giving
This study advances the understanding of family care-giving by examining the provision of care to an older relative by adult children. It focuses on examining ‘who helps whom’ by extending analyses beyond the typical dyadic focus of care-giving in later life. The data for this research are derived from CARNET: The Canadian Aging Research Network’s survey of employed Canadians. Specifically, the analysis focuses on verbatim data collected from fif…
We share the care
Although both family care and home support are considered essential components of home-based health-care, the experiences of family caregivers who have a relative in receipt of home support services are not well understood. Little is known about what aspects of home support services assist family caregivers or hinder them in their caregiving. This study examines family member's experiences of the home support services received by their elderly re…
She was a little bit unrealistic”
Sustained impact of community-based physical activity interventions
To sustain and maximize the impact of community-based public health interventions we propose the integration of elements from three domains of research that acknowledge the interplay between social, environmental and poilitical systems of influence. We emphasize that a number of key factors determine whether evidence from public health interventions in school and built environment settings is applied in practice and policy sectors. These include …
The secrets of highly active older adults
Older adults’ outdoor walking and the built environment
Neighbourhood design may be one avenue whereby physical activity levels of older people can be enhanced through outdoor walking, with benefit across socioeconomic strata
Therapeutic landscapes and wellbeing in later life
Where do they go and how do they get there? Older adults' travel behaviour in a highly walkable environment
InterActive Interpreted Interviews (I3)
Benches become like porches
Developing a comprehensive measure of mobility
MOVES is a holistic measure of mobility for characterizing older adult mobility across populations. Future work should examine individual or neighborhood predictors of MOVES and its relationship to broader health outcomes. MOVES holds utility for research, surveillance, evaluation, and interventions around the broad factors influencing mobility in older adults
A grounded visualization approach to explore sociospatial and temporal complexities of older adults' mobility
Distance, privacy and independence
Implementation of a co-designed physical activity program for older adults
CTM adopted central tenets of implementation science that consider the complicated systems where interventions are delivered to improve public health. In this iteration of CTM we demonstrate that a partner-based health promotion intervention can be effectively implemented across settings to enhance PA, mobility and social connectedness in older adults
Fostering Inter-Agency Collaboration for the Delivery of Community-Based Services for Older Adults
Organisations promoting health and social outcomes are grappling with two concurrent realities: dwindling budgets and declining state support; and a rapidly ageing population. This is true for all levels of government, non-governmental organisations and non-profits. This study assessed the process and extent to which four non-profit organisations collaborated to meet service objectives related to older adults in a local area. A collaboration surv…
Interact
INTERACT aims to advance the evidence base on population health intervention research and address challenges related to big data, knowledge mobilization and engagement, ethics, and causality. We will collect ~ 100 TB of sensor data from participants over 5 years. We will address these challenges using interdisciplinary partnerships, training of highly qualified personnel, and modern methodologies for using sensor-based data
Factors that influence implementation at scale of a community-based health promotion intervention for older adults
Even relatively simple evidence-based interventions can be challenging to scale-up and sustain. To ensure successful implementation it is essential to align with multilevel socioecological perspectives and assess the vast array of contextual factors that are at the core of better understanding successful implementation
Implementing a new model in primary care for older canadians living with frailty
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
It makes your life worthwhile. It gives you a purpose in living’
The World Health Organization claims that mobility is vital to healthy ageing and is the best guarantee of older adults being able to cope and remain in their homes and communities. Mobility enables older adults to maintain their physical health, independence and participation in society. In general, mobility is examined objectively, from a quantitative perspective where mobility is measured as physical movement ( e.g. physical activity) and/or t…
Re-framing mobility in older adults
Although there is widespread acceptance regarding the importance of mobility in older adults, there have been few attempts to bridge disciplines and move beyond the predominant focus on functional aspects of mobility. In this article, we present an adapted mobility framework with the goal of continued development to acknowledge the subjective and temporal elements of movement in order to comprehensively conceptualize mobility. The adapted framewo…
Home Support Workers and Older Men
With increased longevity, growing numbers of older men are using home support services. The provision of care by (mostly female) workers to male clients raises questions regarding the negotiation of gender and age relations in the private sphere of the home. In this article, we explore how home care providers confront and respond to masculinity when supporting older men. Our analysis is based on semistructured interviews with twenty-four home car…
It makes me feel not so alone”
Health promoting interventions that focus on PA and social connectedness through group-based activities can effectively reduce social isolation and loneliness of older adults. Given the 'epidemic of loneliness' that plagues many countries currently, these kinds of interventions are timely and important. Research that further delineates mechanisms (e.g., sharing experiences vs. lectures), that modify the effect of an intervention on social connect…
Safety perceptions of older adults on an urban greenway
and discussion: We conducted thematic analysis to illuminate older adults' experiences across three safety domains: personal safety, traffic safety, and security. Built environment features such as benches, paving, road markings, and natural foliage buffers intersected with elements of the social environment to influence older adults' perceived safety. While the greenway supported active transportation, leisure, and social engagement for many old…
Effects of the Mobility-Fit Physical Activity Program on Strength and Mobility in Older Adults in Assisted Living
Physical activity programs focusing on fall prevention often overlook upper-limb strength, which is important for transferring, balance recovery, and arresting a fall. We developed and evaluated a physical activity program, Mobility-Fit for older adults in Assisted Living (AL) that includes upper-limb strengthening, agility, coordination, and balance exercises. Thirty participants (85 ± 6 years) were recruited from two AL facilities; 15 were assi…
Rapidly adapting an effective health promoting intervention for older adults—choose to move—for virtual delivery during the Covid-19 pandemic
It was feasible and acceptable to deliver CTM virtually. Programs such as CTM have potential to mitigate the unintended consequences of public health orders during COVID associated with reduced physical activity, social isolation, and loneliness. Adaptation and implementation strategies must be informed by community delivery partners and older adults themselves. Pragmatic, virtual health promoting interventions that can be adapted as contexts rap…
Medicine (28 obras) · Gerontology (19 obras) · Psychology (18 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (13 obras) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (12 obras) · Nursing (11 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Environmental health (8 obras) · Physical Activity and Health (8 obras)