Three CREGÉS research projects receive funding as part of the Action concertée | Programme de recherche sur la proche aidance (FRQSC) grant.

We are delighted to announce that three CREGÉS research projects have received funding from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et Culture (FRQSC) and the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux (MSSS), as part of the Action concertée | Programme de recherche sur la proche aidance (frqsc) grant.  

Marie-Michèle Lord’s project on the post-transition phase in residential care  

Marie-Michèle Lord, principal researcher, and Hélène Carbonneau, co-researcher, have been awarded $269,556 for their project entitled Préparer les personnes proches aidantes à la phase de post-transition en hébergement de leur proche et bâtir des ponts intersectoriels pour les soutenir à partir de la communauté jusqu’à l’hébergement.  

This action-research project has three objectives:   

1. To gain a better understanding of the needs and issues of caregivers in the post-housing transition phase.  
2. To improve the support offered to caregivers and their loved ones (caregiver-caregiver dyads) during the post-transition period. This objective could lead to the improvement of the Ensemble pour le plaisir! program by enhancing the themes addressed with caregivers.  
3. Implement innovative processes to ensure continuity between services offered in the community and those offered in shelters. This objective calls for reflection on organizational and collaborative practices between sectors supporting caregivers and their loved ones.

Julie Beauchamp’s project on caregivers of LGBTQ older adults 

Julie Beauchamp, principal investigator, and her co-investigators, Shari Brotman, Sophie Éthier, Élise Milot, Isabelle Van Pevenage and Isabelle Wallach, have been awarded a $171,533 grant for their research project entitled Les personnes proches aidantes des personnes aînées LGBTQ : exploration de leurs expériences et de leurs besoins.  

 The project has two components. The first involves exploring the experiences of caregivers who support LGBTQ older adults. It will enable us to better understand their experiences of their role as caregivers and how their social positions (age, sexual orientation, gender identity, etc.), as well as different forms of discrimination, modulate their experiences of self-recognition and recognition or not in different contexts and in relation to specific and common support needs.   

 The second part of the study aims to explore the information available on LGBTQ realities and the support services for LGBTQ older adults offered by the various caregivers and seniors’ organizations. 

Kirstie McAllum’s project on the role and expertise of caregivers from ethnocultural groups  

Kirstie McAllum and her co-investigator, Line Grenier, have been awarded $234,473 for their project entitled Cadrer des solutions collaboratives culturellement sécuritaires entre les personnes proches aidantes issues de groupes ethnoculturels, les personnes âgées aidées et les personnes intervenantes en soin de santé : la négociation d’expertises diversifiée. 

 This project aims to report on how ethnocultural family caregivers (ICGs) frame their role and expertise with elderly care recipients, and how caregivers, older adults and health care staff frame their needs and visions of triadic collaboration.   

Congratulations to all our researchers!