McMaster School of Nursing awarded grant

McMaster University School of Nursing has been awarded 2.5 million dollars for research into optimal aging.

The grant, from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research will be used to evaluate innovative activities by community-based primary health care teams to help older adults with multiple chronic conditions and their caregivers.

The director of the school of nursing, Catherine Tompkins says, “with the population aging at an unprecedented rate, improving quality of life for seniors as they age and keeping them out of hospitals has become a major public health priority”.