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The Aging, Community and Health Research Unit (ACHRU) designs, evaluates and translates innovative community-based interventions to improve access to health and social care, health-related quality of life, and health outcomes for people 55 years and older.
The research program includes our valued patient and public research partners, decision-makers, staff and trainees.
ACHRU was created with funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Community-Based Primary Health Care Signature Initiative,Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Health System Research Fund Program Award, Diabetes Action Canada, and Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Pan-Canadian SPOR Network in Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovations (PIHCI). ACHRU continues to build on this research program with funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Ontario SPOR Support Unit (OSSU), and Labarge Centre for Mobility and Aging, McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA).
This OSSU Research Centre in Aging, brings together world-class researchers from ACHRU and the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA). The mandate of the collaborative is to build capacity and advance Ontario’s health care system by using an integrated, coordinated, and people-centered approach.
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