Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation

2004-2005 Research Group Facilitation Grants

Title

Clinical and Biomedical Aspects of Aging Research Group

Funding Received

Term	Two year
SHRF	$	40,000

About Program

The Research Group Facilitation Group Program was intended to: encourage and facilitate the formation and development of new groups that consisted of active researchers with common interests who were studying matters associated with the human health sciences, the health-related social sciences or other human health-related fields of study and who were interested in establishing a longer-term association with each other that would benefit their research productivity and competitiveness; advance strategic directions for health research within the home institution or the province; assist in increasing national funding for research in the field of interest in Saskatchewan, especially from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research or another of the Tri-Council agencies; and enhance the capacity for and quality of research in the field of interest and health research generally in Saskatchewan.

Bernhard Juurlink

Anatomy and Cell Biology

Medicine

University of Saskatchewan

Clinical and Biomedical Aspects of Aging Research Group will study how an aging population can live with better mental and physical health having less pain, fewer surgeries and better end of life care. They will look at dietary, physical activity and psychosocial interventions. They focus will be the nervous and musculoskeletal systems, as many ailments of the elderly emanate from these two body systems. This grant brings together Saskatchewan investigators from clinical and biomedical research areas who generally have not been working together.

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Recipients

Bernhard Juurlink