Areas of Research

Nutrition Risk and Malnutrition

This research area focuses on understanding what leads to poor nutrition, promoting food intake, and improving the management of nutrition behaviours in older adults living in the community through screening and nutrition care processes. We also conduct research with hospitals to improve and implement sustainable nutrition care practices.

Highlighted resources that have come from our Nutrition Risk and Malnutrition work include: 

• The evidence- and consensus-based Nutrition Care Pathways were created in collaboration with the Canadian Malnutrition Task Force to support nutritional care for patients after discharge from hospital, and community-living older adults.
• The Older Adult Nutrition Screening website houses the Seniors in the Community: Risk Evaluation for Eating and Nutrition (SCREEN) tools and supporting training documents. You can also find healthy eating factsheets for older adults that cover a variety of nutrition topics.   

See our Nutrition Risk and Malnutrition Research page to learn more about our current projects. 

Our research focuses on understanding and determining how to effectively mange nutrition challenges,  education, resource and program development and evaluation for persons living with dementia and their care partners. Learn more about some of current projects:

Knowledge translation and sharing is a key aspect of our Dementia research. 

Working with the Dementia Resources for Eating, Activity, and Meaningful Inclusion (DREAM) Team, led to the development of an evidence-based toolkit comprised of resources, learning modules, and videos designed to inform service providers and persons living with dementia and their care partners themselves on rights and inclusion, dementia-friendly mealtimes/exercise, and more. These modules and resources can be accessed on the DREAM website.

See our Dementia research page to learn more about our current projects.

This research area focuses on identifying the key determinants of food intake and developing effective interventions that improve food intake and quality of life for older adults living in Long Term Care (LTC) and other residences.

See our Older Adult Care Continuum research page to learn more about current projects.