Janice Keefe
Biographic Data
| ID | 5245281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janice Keefe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janice |
| FAMILY NAME | Keefe |
| SIGNATURE | KEEFE J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Home care program flexibility as a relational phenomenon
The capacities of home care programs to respond to clients’ holistic, everyday needs and changing circumstances can shape trajectories of clients and family caregivers. This analysis examines how such flexibility emerges in relations between home care actors within the constraints of policies, regulations and funding contexts. A relational lens broadly informs the analysis of interview data from 46 participants in two Canadian regions. Twelve con…
Disparities in Utilization of Psychiatry Services Among Home Care Clients
Publicly funded home care in Canada supports older adults in the community to delay institutional care, which results in complex care populations with multimorbidity that includes mental health problems. The purpose of this study is to examine prevalence of psychiatric diagnoses and other mental health symptoms among older clients in two publicly funded Home Care (HC) Programs and their psychiatry service utilization (psychiatrist visits) after b…
The assessment experience of spousal dementia care-givers
This article is based on a study that used a validated care-giver assessment instrument known as ‘The C.A.R.E. (Caregivers’ Aspirations, Realities, and Expectations) Tool’ to understand its usefulness in working with older adults caring for a spouse with cognitive impairment. It draws on data collected as part of a larger, quasi-experimental pre- and post-test study examining the impact of a care-giver assessment on older spousal care-givers of a…
Nursing home resident quality of life
Coastal climate change and aging communities in Atlantic Canada
Coastal climate change is challenging communities to adapt. More frequent and extreme weather events leading to coastal area flooding and other hazards can present a risk for residents and the infrastructure and services they rely on. This is particularly the case for vulnerable populations such as seniors. Nova Scotia is experiencing this confluence of factors; it has rural and remote coastal communities and the oldest population of any province…
Finding and Using Rural Aging Data
This article reports on a workshop in which participants identified sources of data on rural aging. Such sources are typically part of larger data collection efforts or special aging studies with large rural components. Finding and using data on rural aging are not only two different processes but they also face somewhat different obstacles and the solutions are likewise different. The workshop addressed both of these issues. Participants shared …
Coastal climate change and aging communities in Atlantic Canada
Coastal climate change is challenging communities to adapt. More frequent and extreme weather events leading to coastal area flooding and other hazards can present a risk for residents and the infrastructure and services they rely on. This is particularly the case for vulnerable populations such as seniors. Nova Scotia is experiencing this confluence of factors; it has rural and remote coastal communities and the oldest population of any province…
Finding and Using Rural Aging Data
This article reports on a workshop in which participants identified sources of data on rural aging. Such sources are typically part of larger data collection efforts or special aging studies with large rural components. Finding and using data on rural aging are not only two different processes but they also face somewhat different obstacles and the solutions are likewise different. The workshop addressed both of these issues. Participants shared …
Nursing home resident quality of life
Coastal climate change and aging communities in Atlantic Canada
Coastal climate change is challenging communities to adapt. More frequent and extreme weather events leading to coastal area flooding and other hazards can present a risk for residents and the infrastructure and services they rely on. This is particularly the case for vulnerable populations such as seniors. Nova Scotia is experiencing this confluence of factors; it has rural and remote coastal communities and the oldest population of any province…
The assessment experience of spousal dementia care-givers
This article is based on a study that used a validated care-giver assessment instrument known as ‘The C.A.R.E. (Caregivers’ Aspirations, Realities, and Expectations) Tool’ to understand its usefulness in working with older adults caring for a spouse with cognitive impairment. It draws on data collected as part of a larger, quasi-experimental pre- and post-test study examining the impact of a care-giver assessment on older spousal care-givers of a…
Disparities in Utilization of Psychiatry Services Among Home Care Clients
Publicly funded home care in Canada supports older adults in the community to delay institutional care, which results in complex care populations with multimorbidity that includes mental health problems. The purpose of this study is to examine prevalence of psychiatric diagnoses and other mental health symptoms among older clients in two publicly funded Home Care (HC) Programs and their psychiatry service utilization (psychiatrist visits) after b…
Home care program flexibility as a relational phenomenon
The capacities of home care programs to respond to clients’ holistic, everyday needs and changing circumstances can shape trajectories of clients and family caregivers. This analysis examines how such flexibility emerges in relations between home care actors within the constraints of policies, regulations and funding contexts. A relational lens broadly informs the analysis of interview data from 46 participants in two Canadian regions. Twelve con…
Medicine (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (3 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Family medicine (2 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works)