Elizabeth Kalles
Biographic Data
| ID | 6776724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Kalles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Kalles |
| SIGNATURE | KALLES E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5270-4155 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Identifying priority questions for aging and mental health research in partnership with experts-by-experience
Background: Mental health is an essential component of overall health across the life course that should be integrated into research, policy, and practice for sustainable health and well-being. However, in Canada, research and care provision related to aging, mental health and physical health are often siloed. There is a need for intentional partnerships with experts-by-experience to collaboratively generate a meaningful aging and mental health r…
Putting the ‘to’ in Participatory Research to Action
Background: Co-design methods have become increasingly popular for realizing more inclusive research practices with end-user experts-by-experience who have a variety of important roles related to integrated care in their communities—from citizen to patient, provider, care partner, leader, decision-maker and beyond. While this methodological shift has resulted in positive trends related to democratizing science and enhancing creativity in the rese…
Integrating mental health conversations into home and community-based healthcare practice
Background: The Canadian healthcare system tends to focus on older adults’ physical needs, which leads to missed opportunities for integrated mental health support, care and treatment. Health and social care providers who work in community settings develop trusting therapeutic relationships with their clients, often in home environments—providing many insights into personal circumstances. These providers are well-positioned to talk about mental h…
Meeting in the middle
Introduction/Background: For Canada to realize the goal of high-quality integrated care, macro-level health system and policy changes are necessary, but these can take time. Researchers can partner with meso-level organizations to take immediate action on meaningful, collaborative and evidence-based change leading the way for larger scale improvements across the system. Approach: Applied health researchers serve as a critical link between meso-le…
Observe, Coach, Assist, Report
Background: In Canada, most paid home care is provided by an unregulated workforce of personal support (PS) providers. Given their frequent and consistent interactions with clients, PS providers are well-positioned to identify unaddressed client needs; however little infrastructure exists to communicate these observations with the broader home care team. To support deeper integration of PS providers and their contributions into home care teams, t…
Is this really equity? Engaging experts-by-experience in Learning Health Systems to generate meaningful change solutions
Background:Learning Health Systems (LHS) require rigorous integration of evidence, experience, expertise, and values as a formula to produce equitable and meaningful change solutions for population health and wellbeing. The Participatory Research to Action (PR2A) Framework can guide authentic engagement of experts-by-experience across the LHS learning cycle. Audience:To produce equity-driven solutions in a learning health system, a rigorous appro…
Cultivating a common language for change
Introduction/Background: Systemic ageism, overmedicalization, stigma, and misunderstandings about mental health as a unidimensional or dichotomous construct, contribute to aging Canadians holistic needs going unnoticed, undiscussed, and ultimately unmet. A common language is needed by home and community care providers to leverage their routine care interactions for meaningful conversations about mental health. This national study aimed to co-desi…
Integrated palliative care for all
Background: Approximately 235,000 people experience homelessness or structural vulnerability in Canada in any given year, and many would benefit from hospice palliative care (HPC) due to their complex health and social care needs. Sustaining and growing integrated HPC for all, including people experiencing homelessness, hinges on staff and volunteer workforce capacity to deliver high-quality specialized HPC.Our program of research focuses on skil…
Leveraging Community Support Services to Support an Integrated Health and Social System Response to Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic restricted access to health and social care for older adults. In response, a standardized, self-report instrument, the interRAI COVID-19 Vulnerability Screener (CVS), was developed. In collaboration with a community support service organization, this project aimed to evaluate a surveillance process to identify those at risk and triage them to health- or social-care services. A convergent, mixed methods design was used. Virtu…
Co-designing action-oriented mental health conversations
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced concerns for the mental health and wellness of older adults worldwide. Older adults experiencing poor mental health may face both mental health stigma and ageism, which act as barriers to talking about mental health and seeking needed supports, care, and treatment. In Canada and elsewhere, there is a lack of mental health parity. The healthcare system’s focus on the physical healthcare needs of old…
The Reflection Room®
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
Aging and mental health in Canada
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
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The Reflection Room®
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
Aging and mental health in Canada
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
Leveraging Community Support Services to Support an Integrated Health and Social System Response to Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic restricted access to health and social care for older adults. In response, a standardized, self-report instrument, the interRAI COVID-19 Vulnerability Screener (CVS), was developed. In collaboration with a community support service organization, this project aimed to evaluate a surveillance process to identify those at risk and triage them to health- or social-care services. A convergent, mixed methods design was used. Virtu…
Co-designing action-oriented mental health conversations
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced concerns for the mental health and wellness of older adults worldwide. Older adults experiencing poor mental health may face both mental health stigma and ageism, which act as barriers to talking about mental health and seeking needed supports, care, and treatment. In Canada and elsewhere, there is a lack of mental health parity. The healthcare system’s focus on the physical healthcare needs of old…
Integrating mental health conversations into home and community-based healthcare practice
Background: The Canadian healthcare system tends to focus on older adults’ physical needs, which leads to missed opportunities for integrated mental health support, care and treatment. Health and social care providers who work in community settings develop trusting therapeutic relationships with their clients, often in home environments—providing many insights into personal circumstances. These providers are well-positioned to talk about mental h…
Meeting in the middle
Introduction/Background: For Canada to realize the goal of high-quality integrated care, macro-level health system and policy changes are necessary, but these can take time. Researchers can partner with meso-level organizations to take immediate action on meaningful, collaborative and evidence-based change leading the way for larger scale improvements across the system. Approach: Applied health researchers serve as a critical link between meso-le…
Observe, Coach, Assist, Report
Background: In Canada, most paid home care is provided by an unregulated workforce of personal support (PS) providers. Given their frequent and consistent interactions with clients, PS providers are well-positioned to identify unaddressed client needs; however little infrastructure exists to communicate these observations with the broader home care team. To support deeper integration of PS providers and their contributions into home care teams, t…
Is this really equity? Engaging experts-by-experience in Learning Health Systems to generate meaningful change solutions
Background:Learning Health Systems (LHS) require rigorous integration of evidence, experience, expertise, and values as a formula to produce equitable and meaningful change solutions for population health and wellbeing. The Participatory Research to Action (PR2A) Framework can guide authentic engagement of experts-by-experience across the LHS learning cycle. Audience:To produce equity-driven solutions in a learning health system, a rigorous appro…
Cultivating a common language for change
Introduction/Background: Systemic ageism, overmedicalization, stigma, and misunderstandings about mental health as a unidimensional or dichotomous construct, contribute to aging Canadians holistic needs going unnoticed, undiscussed, and ultimately unmet. A common language is needed by home and community care providers to leverage their routine care interactions for meaningful conversations about mental health. This national study aimed to co-desi…
Integrated palliative care for all
Background: Approximately 235,000 people experience homelessness or structural vulnerability in Canada in any given year, and many would benefit from hospice palliative care (HPC) due to their complex health and social care needs. Sustaining and growing integrated HPC for all, including people experiencing homelessness, hinges on staff and volunteer workforce capacity to deliver high-quality specialized HPC.Our program of research focuses on skil…
Identifying priority questions for aging and mental health research in partnership with experts-by-experience
Background: Mental health is an essential component of overall health across the life course that should be integrated into research, policy, and practice for sustainable health and well-being. However, in Canada, research and care provision related to aging, mental health and physical health are often siloed. There is a need for intentional partnerships with experts-by-experience to collaboratively generate a meaningful aging and mental health r…
Putting the ‘to’ in Participatory Research to Action
Background: Co-design methods have become increasingly popular for realizing more inclusive research practices with end-user experts-by-experience who have a variety of important roles related to integrated care in their communities—from citizen to patient, provider, care partner, leader, decision-maker and beyond. While this methodological shift has resulted in positive trends related to democratizing science and enhancing creativity in the rese…
Health care (10 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Mental health (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)