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American
Geriatrics Society (AGS)
The
AGS is the premier professional organization of health care
providers dedicated to improving the health and well-being of
older adults. It has an active membership of over 6,000 health
care professionals.
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Canadian Association
on Gerontology (CAG)
The CAG is
a national, multidisciplinary scientific and educational association
established to provide leadership in matters related to the
aging population.
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Canadian
Health Network (CHN)
CHN
is a national, non-profit, bilingual web-based health information
service. Its goal is to help find the information on how to
stay healthy and prevent disease. This network of health information
providers includes Health Canada and national and provincial/territorial
non-profit organizations, as well as universities, hospitals,
libraries and community organizations.
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Canadian
Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF)
The CHSRF promotes and funds management
and policy research in health services and nursing to increase
the quality, relevance and usefulness of this research for
health-system
policy makers and managers.
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Canadian Institutes
of Health Research (CIHR)
CIHR is Canada's major federal funding
agency for health research. Its objective is to excel, according
to internationally accepted standards of scientific excellence,
in the creation of new knowledge and its translation into improved
health for Canadians, more effective health services and products
and a strengthened Canadian health care system.
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Canadian
Study on Health and Aging (CSHA)
The CSHA is a study of the epidemiology
of dementia in Canada. It has followed over 10,000 elderly Canadians
over a ten-year period from 1991 to 2001, collecting a wide
range of information on their changing health status.
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Centre de
recherche, Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal
(CdeR, IUGM)
The Research Centre implements research
on health systems and services as well as biomedical, clinical,
social, cultural, and other factors that have an impact on the
elderly. The research is based on the integration of different
disciplines as well as the interconnection between research
and clinical activities.
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Clair-Commission
d'étude sur les services de santé (document
in french)
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Editrice
Kurtis
Founded in 1973, Editrice Kurtis publishes
12 journals and a number of monograph volumes edited by leading
experts in various disciplinary areas.
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Gerontological
Society of America (GSA)
The GSA
is a non-profit professional organization with more than 5000
members in the field of aging. GSA provides researchers, educators,
practitioners, and policy makers with opportunities to understand,
advance, integrate, and use basic and applied research on aging
to improve the quality of life.
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Health
Canada Funding Programs (HCFP)
The Office of Health and the Information
Highway (OHIH) was created in the summer of 1997 as Health Canada's
focal point for all matters concerning the use of information
and communications technologies (ICTs) in the health sector.
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Home
Care & Community Care Evaluation & Research Centre (HCERC)
The HCERC was launched at the University
of Toronto in 1998. Its goals are to facilitate the collaborative
creation and dissemination of knowledge
related to the settings in which health care is sought, delivered,
and received.
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International
Journal of Integrated Care
International
Journal of Integrated Care is a joint project of Utrecht University,
Maastricht University and Groningen Unversity, The Netherlands.
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Manitoba Centre
for Health Policy (MCHP)
MCHP
is a research unit in the University of Manitoba's Faculty of
Medicine. MCHP does research on the health of Manitobans. We
examine patterns of illness in the population, and study how
people use health care services.
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National
Institute on Aging (NIA)
The NIA, one of the 25 institutes and
centers of the National Institutes of Health, leads a broad
scientific effort to understand the nature of aging and to
extend the healthy, active years of life. The NIA’s
mission is to improve the health and well-being of older Americans
through research.
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National
Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC)
NQMC,
sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is a public
repository for evidence-based quality measures and measure sets.
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Program of research on Integration of Services for the Maintenance of Autonomy. (PRISMA)
The PRISMA research program brings together the expertise of researchers from the Centre St-Augustin de Beauport (Québec) and from the Research Center on Aging of the Sherbrooke Geriatric University Institute, an establishment affiliated with the Université de Sherbrooke.
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Quebec DIrectory of Public Research (QDPR)
The
Directory is a tool producedin partnershipwith three Quebec
granting organizations which lists scientists in all fields
of research that further the growth and international stature
of Quebec.
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