Melissa Frew
Biographic Data
| ID | 6776650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Frew |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Frew |
| SIGNATURE | FREW M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University Health Network |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Designing services and change in clinical settings. Soaring into the solution stratosphere
In today’s complex healthcare landscape, we often focus on fixing problems reactively—tackling challenges as they arise without considering their broader context. But what if we flipped this approach? What if we proactively addressed challenges by designing solutions with, rather than for, those who experience them every day? This hands-on workshop introduces a dynamic, human-centered approach to addressing healthcare challenges that blends empat…
Changing the Way We Approach Change in Healthcare! Embedding Empathy to Design With Patients, Rather Than for Patients
In healthcare, change management traditionally follows a top-down approach that often neglects the lived experiences of patients and their support networks. However, integrating patients, their support people, and healthcare professionals as active partners in care is essential to developing sustainable, meaningful change. This presentation explores our recent work in implementing a new evidence-based care practice at a tertiary care hospital wit…
Designing Integrated Transitional Care Pathways for Older Populations Living with Frailty and their Caregivers
The Ontario healthcare system is currently under pressure due to ongoing human resource shortages and increasing demands for care from a growing and aging population. Adding to the pressure is an increasing number of older patients living with frailty who no longer require acute care but remain in hospital with no safe place to go. For these older people languishing in acute care beds, there is an increased risk of physical and cognitive decline,…
Co‐Designing Solutions to Improve Communication About Serious Illness During Hospitalisation
BACKGROUND: Serious illness conversations (SICs) that explore patient priorities are becoming increasingly important to high-quality care for those with life-limiting conditions admitted to general internal medicine wards. While patient-cited barriers to SIC include a lack of understanding of complex medical terminology, expected illness course and life-sustaining interventions, providers cite poor documentation and lack of training and support. …
Experiences of Older People Living with Frailty Transitioning from Hospital to Home — A Qualitative Descriptive Study
This qualitative study explores the experiences of older people living with frailty, their informal caregivers, healthcare professionals, and administrators during the transition from hospital to home within the Ontario Health Teams (OHT) model. Using focus group discussions (FG1: older adults and caregivers, FG2: healthcare administrators, and FG3: healthcare professionals), the study identifies six key themes critical to successful care transit…
Empowering and Supporting Young Caregivers Interacting with the Healthcare System
In Canada and worldwide, there is a growing awareness of young carers, or youth under 25 who provide significant and ongoing unpaid care to a loved one. Little is also known about how equipped healthcare providers who may encounter young carers are at recognizing and supporting young carers at the point of care. Drawing from a survey of Swiss professionals working with young carers, our national, cross-sectional survey of healthcare providers aim…
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Co‐Designing Solutions to Improve Communication About Serious Illness During Hospitalisation
BACKGROUND: Serious illness conversations (SICs) that explore patient priorities are becoming increasingly important to high-quality care for those with life-limiting conditions admitted to general internal medicine wards. While patient-cited barriers to SIC include a lack of understanding of complex medical terminology, expected illness course and life-sustaining interventions, providers cite poor documentation and lack of training and support. …
Experiences of Older People Living with Frailty Transitioning from Hospital to Home — A Qualitative Descriptive Study
This qualitative study explores the experiences of older people living with frailty, their informal caregivers, healthcare professionals, and administrators during the transition from hospital to home within the Ontario Health Teams (OHT) model. Using focus group discussions (FG1: older adults and caregivers, FG2: healthcare administrators, and FG3: healthcare professionals), the study identifies six key themes critical to successful care transit…
Empowering and Supporting Young Caregivers Interacting with the Healthcare System
In Canada and worldwide, there is a growing awareness of young carers, or youth under 25 who provide significant and ongoing unpaid care to a loved one. Little is also known about how equipped healthcare providers who may encounter young carers are at recognizing and supporting young carers at the point of care. Drawing from a survey of Swiss professionals working with young carers, our national, cross-sectional survey of healthcare providers aim…
Designing services and change in clinical settings. Soaring into the solution stratosphere
In today’s complex healthcare landscape, we often focus on fixing problems reactively—tackling challenges as they arise without considering their broader context. But what if we flipped this approach? What if we proactively addressed challenges by designing solutions with, rather than for, those who experience them every day? This hands-on workshop introduces a dynamic, human-centered approach to addressing healthcare challenges that blends empat…
Changing the Way We Approach Change in Healthcare! Embedding Empathy to Design With Patients, Rather Than for Patients
In healthcare, change management traditionally follows a top-down approach that often neglects the lived experiences of patients and their support networks. However, integrating patients, their support people, and healthcare professionals as active partners in care is essential to developing sustainable, meaningful change. This presentation explores our recent work in implementing a new evidence-based care practice at a tertiary care hospital wit…
Designing Integrated Transitional Care Pathways for Older Populations Living with Frailty and their Caregivers
The Ontario healthcare system is currently under pressure due to ongoing human resource shortages and increasing demands for care from a growing and aging population. Adding to the pressure is an increasing number of older patients living with frailty who no longer require acute care but remain in hospital with no safe place to go. For these older people languishing in acute care beds, there is an increased risk of physical and cognitive decline,…
Health care (6 works) · Integrated care (3 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (3 works) · Empathy (2 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (2 works) · Focus group (2 works) · Frailty in Older Adults (2 works) · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (2 works) · Older people (2 works) · Qualitative research (2 works)