Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation

2003-2004 Focus on the Future Grants

Title

Developing and piloting cross-cultural curriculum for delivery and utilization of end of life health care services

Funding Received

SHRF

32,959

About Program

The Focus on the Future Program was intended to: 1) assist Saskatchewan researchers in demonstrating local support in their applications for strategic or programmatic health research grants at the national level; 2) encourage research in health research areas of particular relevance in Saskatchewan; and 3) support graduate student training in health-related areas. It provided supplemental funding for graduate student support to Saskatchewan university faculty who succeeded in obtaining a major national strategic, program, or group grant for health research. --- The nationally supplemented grant was required to be a strategic, program, or group grant (i.e., not a regular operating grant) in health research focusing on one of the following areas: i) health issues of particular importance to aboriginal people; ii) health issues of particular importance in rural areas, iii) informing health policy decisions; or iv) health applications of the synchrotron.

Mary Hampton

Psychology

Arts

University of Regina

This project endeavours to enhance health care professionals’ awareness of end of life health care needs of Aboriginal families; to increase awareness of available end of life care services for Aboriginal families; and to increase access to palliative care services by Aboriginal individuals and families. The long-term goal of Dr. Hampton and her team is to increase the use of these services by Aboriginal families, and to contribute to a knowledge base describing Aboriginal end of life medicine and healing in a contemporary context.

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Recipients

Mary Hampton