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Research on mistreatment of older adults in Quebec: summaries of scientific articles.

Themes: Principal researcher

PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER:

Marie Beaulieu, Ph. D., University of Sherbrooke

RESEARCH TEAM:

N.a.

CHAIR PERSONNEL INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT:

Nathalie Paquette, master’s student in social service and research assistant

Roxane Leboeuf, coordinator of the Chair and research assistant

Nathalie Paquette, ex research assistant for the Chair

Johannie Bergeron Patenaude, ex Chair coordinator and now is a social worker in the CIUSSS of Estrie-CHUS.

GRANTING AGENCY AND GRANT AMOUNT:

From the Chair’s funds

PROJECT COMPLETION DATES:

Ongoing as of August 2012

ROLE OF CHAIR IN THE PROJECT:

Initiator and project leader.

RESEARCH PROBLEM:

The knowledge on mistreatment is always from a certain cultural context. To this day, there is no assessment made in Québec.

GOAL OF THE PROJECT OR RESEARCH QUESTION:

Highlighting the scientific research conducted by Québec researchers regarding mistreatment of older adults.

OBJECTIVES:

Summarize each scientific article published by Québec authors on mistreatment of older adults, since the very first, published in 1985.

Analyse the content of the documented articles to produce scientific articles.

METHODOLOGY:

  • Review all scientific articles written by Québec authors;
  • Complete a reading grid of each scientific article;
  • Summarize each scientific article;
  • Translate into English each of the summaries;
  • Post online each of the summaries on the French and English interfaces of the Chair’s website.
  • Post online the PDF of the articles when they are available online for free.
  • Do a cross-analysis of the data from the summaries with the goal of producing scientific articles about the evolution of the state of knowledge on mistreatment over the years in Québec.

PROJECT ADVANCEMENT:

To this date:

  • 146 reviewed articles;
  • 141 reading summaries were produced
  • 68 reading summaries were revised and published on the Chair’s website (in English and in French)
  • A first summary table of the texts from the 90s and 80s’ content is almost finished and ready to be analysed.

COMMUNICATIONS:

N.a.

PUBLICATIONS:

Access the summary of the scientific articles online on the Chair’s web site.