Co/Lab takes a collaborative approach to promote health, health equity for people who use drugs

While MAPs largely flew under the radar for years, the COVID-19 crisis has led to a surge in interest, with new programs opening up across the country.

Nursing PhD candidate Meaghan Brown puts managed alcohol program experience and research into practice and policy.

The physical convocation ceremony for UVic’s 2020 nursing graduates will have to wait—they’re already playing key roles in community health. Sydney Hofmeyr is one of them, joining Island Health.

Vital family visits for seniors

Managing alcohol in COVID

The following University of Victoria experts are available to media to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Palliative Outreach Resource Team is built upon lessons learned from a three-year study led by UVic palliative care researcher Kelli Stajduhar, lead investigator of the Equity in Palliative Approaches to Care program.

A new palliative care program is providing care to people with life-limiting illnesses who are homeless in Victoria. The Palliative Outreach Resource Team is a UVic, Island Health, Victoria Cool Aid and Victoria Hospice collaboration connecting people in need with health and social supports.

Canada’s National Dementia Strategy, the long-awaited blueprint for finding a cure and for reshaping policy, was released last week.

When the BC government began opening overdose prevention sites (OPS) across the province two years ago, it was an unprecedented response to the overdose crisis. Unlike supervised consumption sites (SCS), which were subject to lengthy (and often onerous) approval processes, OPS were rolled out quickly and led by community members on the front lines of the public-health emergency.

UVic's CanAssist has launched a new website aimed at improving independence and safety among BC seniors. Ability411.ca provides information and personalized answers to seniors' questions about technologies and equipment.

BC's approval of overdose prevention sites two years ago was an unprecedented response to the overdose crisis. They were rolled out quickly and led by community members on the front lines of the public-health emergency. Findings from a CISUR study show the strategy's effectiveness.

UVic alumna Sharon Horton volunteered in Douala, Cameroon for two months onboard the world's largest volunteer-run hospital ship, which provides care to thousands overseas each year. Horton, a nursing graduate, works as an outpatient burn-and-wound nurse in Victoria.

Victoria teens joined seniors with dementia in a choir

"Voices in Motion" is an intergenerational community choir for persons with dementia, their family caregivers and high school students. It's also a UVic research study looking into how participation in an intergenerational choir might foster social engagement and caregiver well-being, improve quality of life for persons with dementia, and reduce some of the stigma surrounding memory loss.