Eligible community partners - UBC CUES - 2024 07 25

 

We had hoped to leverage our work on the SPOR EA Scoping Review to build community amongst diverse stakeholder groups: family caregivers, recipients of family caregiving, health providers (clinical and administrative), policy decision makers, and health researchers. 

Our idea was to develop an affiliated knowledge mobilization project with family caregivers to collect and disseminate their stories of lived experience in relation to research knowledge.

However, the UBC CUES funds require a registered charity to serve as the community partner. We don't have that right now. I have reached out to Barb McLean at BC Family Caregivers, asking is she has any ideas for an organization that could serve as an community partner entity in this project.

Part of the issue of family caregiving is that there is no non-profit, non-government collective body that represents the needs of family caregivers across the domain. In our case, this would be a collective body that represents every family in Canada that is providing a long term care bed in their home for a family member or friend who can no longer live independently.