Summary
This study aims to identify effective interventions to prevent or mitigate social isolation and/or loneliness in older adults who experienced a fall.
Project Resources
- Project website: https://sporevidencealliance.ca/projects/social-isolation-and-falls-in-older-adults/
- Publication: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/3/e056540.long
- Protocol Registration: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42020198487
Funded By
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) through the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Evidence Alliance
Principal Investigator
- Andrea Tricco
Co-Investigators
- Sharon Straus
- Jennifer Watt
Collaborators
- Public Health Agency of Canada
- Kerry Anderson
- Joan Barker*
- Margaret de Groh
- Jennifer Fortune
- Amélie Gauthier-Beaupré
- Ying Jiang
- Gary Mitchell
KTP Project Staff
- Amruta Radhakrishnan
- Naveeta Ramkissoon
- Sonia Thomas
*Patient Partner: These individuals could be patients (an individual with a health condition), family members of a patient (e.g. parent, spouse, adult child or other close family member of a patient not capable of decision-making), caregivers (family, relative, friends or neighbours providing unpaid assistance to someone with a health condition/limitation), people with lived experience (those with first-hand experience of the topic of interest,), or members of the public at large.