Healthy Seniors Pilot Project

The Healthy Seniors Pilot Project (HSPP) supports community and government applied research initiatives in New Brunswick, to explore how governments, communities and private sectors can better support seniors.

HSPP Executive Summary 2025 (PDF 2.3 MB)

Prepared by the Monitoring, Evaluation and Knowledge Transfer Unit (MEKTU) in March 2025.

HSPP Portfolio 2025 (PDF 1.2 MB)

Prepared by the Monitoring, Evaluation and Knowledge Transfer Unit (MEKTU) in March 2025.

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Using Supportive Technologies to Foster Healthy Aging at Home and in Our CommunitiesAging and Thriving in Place at Home Utilizing Digital Care Coordination and Virtual Care to Foster Self-Care, Socialization, Family and Community Involvement
Using Supportive Technologies to Foster Healthy Aging at Home and in Our CommunitiesConnected Communities: Smart Home for Independence, Social Interaction, Safety and Comfort in Aging Individuals
Using Supportive Technologies to Foster Healthy Aging at Home and in Our CommunitiesData Informed Quality of Care Improvements in NB Long Term Care Homes
Using Supportive Technologies to Foster Healthy Aging at Home and in Our CommunitiesEnhancing service access for seniors through effective use of technology with service providers - Improving Partnerships Sharing Information to Improve Services to Older Adults
Using Supportive Technologies to Foster Healthy Aging at Home and in Our CommunitiesImplementing Virtual Reality in Advanced Falls Prevention: Building Resilience and Balancing Risks
Using Supportive Technologies to Foster Healthy Aging at Home and in Our CommunitiesImproving Immunization Rates Among Seniors using the CANImmunize Digital Application
Using Supportive Technologies to Foster Healthy Aging at Home and in Our CommunitiesProactive Care for Persons with Dementia: Using In-Home Passive Sensors to Reduce Caregiver Stress and Promote Aging in Place
Using Supportive Technologies to Foster Healthy Aging at Home and in Our CommunitiesReconnecting with GENIE: Evaluating the impact of a telecommunications platform on social isolation experienced by older adults living in long-term care in New Brunswick
Using Supportive Technologies to Foster Healthy Aging at Home and in Our CommunitiesSpread and Scale of a Polypharmacy App to Improve Health Outcomes of Older Adults Living in New Brunswick Nursing Homes
Using Supportive Technologies to Foster Healthy Aging at Home and in Our CommunitiesTechnology-enabled Platform for Proactive Regular Senior-Centric Health Assessments
Using Community Approaches to Reduce Health InequalitiesCaregivers – Essential allies in helping vulnerable seniors stay in their homes in minority rural Francophone areas
Using Community Approaches to Reduce Health InequalitiesConnection New Brunswick: Together, Building Sustainable Community Programs for Vulnerable Seniors
Using Community Approaches to Reduce Health InequalitiesEmeg tan tleaooltieg (We are home where we belong) Home for Life: An applied research study supporting independent living for Elsipogtog First Nations Elders
Using Community Approaches to Reduce Health InequalitiesHearing Equity through Accessible Research Solutions (HEARS)
Using Community Approaches to Reduce Health InequalitiesIntegration of Nurse Practitioners into the Rehabilitation and Reablement (R&R) Care Team for Vulnerable Seniors
Using Community Approaches to Reduce Health InequalitiesMobile Senior’s Wellness Network: Reaching Rural New Brunswickers
Using Community Approaches to Reduce Health InequalitiesOne Stop Community Support Services for Aging at Home
Increasing Independence, Quality of Life, and Promoting Healthy LifestylesDance your way to health!
Increasing Independence, Quality of Life, and Promoting Healthy LifestylesDirect-to-patient Health Promotion to Reduce Sedative-hypnotic Use (YAWNS NB – Your Answers When Needing Sleep in New Brunswick)
Increasing Independence, Quality of Life, and Promoting Healthy LifestylesEvaluating the impacts of a community strategy to increase resilience of seniors and access to the services they need in their language, involving a target group of Francophone seniors in Greater St. John New Brunswick
Increasing Independence, Quality of Life, and Promoting Healthy LifestylesGood Life with OsteoArthritis in Denmark (GLA:D®)
Increasing Independence, Quality of Life, and Promoting Healthy LifestylesHome-based and Residence-based Virtual Reality Training to Increase Rehabilitative Exercise in Seniors
Increasing Independence, Quality of Life, and Promoting Healthy LifestylesIntroducing Gentle Persuasiveness Approaches (GPA) in Dementia Care to Informal and Formal Caregivers in the Community Setting
Increasing Independence, Quality of Life, and Promoting Healthy LifestylesLifting Frailty in New Brunswick
Increasing Independence, Quality of Life, and Promoting Healthy LifestylesOutcomes of a Health Coaching Intervention in Older Adults Living with Chronic Conditions in NB (LiveWell / BienVivre)
Increasing Independence, Quality of Life, and Promoting Healthy LifestylesParticipatory Arts for Older Adults: Benefits of Creative Aging
Increasing Independence, Quality of Life, and Promoting Healthy LifestylesPromoting Physical Activity with Augmented Reality Experiences
Increasing Independence, Quality of Life, and Promoting Healthy LifestylesSenior Well Plan - Improving Seniors' Wellbeing with Science and Technology while utilizing community resources
Increasing Independence, Quality of Life, and Promoting Healthy LifestylesThe Band-Frail Study: A Provincial Intervention to Outweigh Diabetes and Frailty in New Brunswick
Increasing Independence, Quality of Life, and Promoting Healthy LifestylesThe New Brunswick Brain Health Initiative: Preventing Alzheimer’s by Lessening Modifiable Risk (NB-PALM)
Increasing Independence, Quality of Life, and Promoting Healthy LifestylesZoomers for All
Improving Social Built Environments to Foster Healthy AgingAddressing determinants of senior well-being and reducing social isolation
Improving Social Built Environments to Foster Healthy AgingCare-Services Navigation and Care Skills Development Program for informal caregivers of seniors and seniors aging in place in New Brunswick
Improving Social Built Environments to Foster Healthy AgingCivic Engagement for Health Among Older Adults: A Strategy for Aging in Place
Improving Social Built Environments to Foster Healthy AgingCreative Pathways to Healthy Aging: Seniors and Youth Engage
Improving Social Built Environments to Foster Healthy AgingIdentification of Risk and Development of an Evidenced-Informed Strategy for the Safe Reintegration of Families into Long-term Care Homes
Improving Social Built Environments to Foster Healthy AgingiGenNB: Intergenerational Living for Community Wellbeing
Improving Social Built Environments to Foster Healthy AgingIntergenerational (IG) Action Plan
Improving Social Built Environments to Foster Healthy AgingMadawaska’s Elders Initiatives (MEI)
Improving Social Built Environments to Foster Healthy AgingNeqotkuk Elder Advisory Program
Improving Social Built Environments to Foster Healthy AgingNursing Home Without Walls for Aging in Place in Rural New Brunswick
Improving Social Built Environments to Foster Healthy AgingOperation Growing Strong Together
Improving Social Built Environments to Foster Healthy AgingPiloting a Community Connectors Program to Address Social Isolation and Loneliness among Older Adults in New Brunswick
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysA Pharmacy Hospital Discharge Transitions of Care Project to Facilitate Transfer of Care between Pharmacy Practice Setting and Improve Patient Medication Knowledge and Medication Experience at Hospital Discharge
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysAdult Residential Facility (ARF) Liaison
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysBecoming a learning health system: The New Brunswick Health Care System Strategy. Pilot project: Seniors’ Health Learning Clinic Unit
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysCHARM Study - Coordinating transitions from hospital for older adults with fractures: An interventional mixed methods study
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysCo-designing Dementia Care in New Brunswick: Building the Future Together
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysCollaborative Use of Data to Enhance Aging-in-Place (CDEAP)
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysCoordinated Aging in Place Services (CAPS) through Integrated Primary Health Care
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysEnhanced Community Pathway
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysEnhancing Timely Access to Personal Support Workers for Seniors Receiving Rehabilitation and Reablement Services (R&R)
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysEvaluating PreALRT Program Impact on NB Seniors
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysFrailty-focused Enhancements to Seniors Hospital Care (FrESH Care)
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysImplementation and Evaluation of a Novel Technology-Enabled, Integrated Case Management Program for Complex-Needs Patients in Northumberland County, New Brunswick
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysInnovative and community-partnered pulmonary rehabilitation for seniors in NB
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysIntroduction of a non-clinical support role for care staff in nursing homes
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysNon-Hospital Cataract Surgery
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysPiloting patient navigation for people with dementia, their caregivers, and members of the care team
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysPrimary Care Networks/Primary Care NB
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysProof of Concept: Stroke Navigation in New Brunswick
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysRadiography on Wheels
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysScaling-Up the SPA-LTC Palliative Program in Long-Term Care Homes in New Brunswick
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysSenior Navigator Website Pilot Project
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysSupporting Senior’s Quality of Life in Long-term Care – Early Integration of a Palliative Approach to Care
Developing Innovative Care PathwaysTransition of appropriate alternative level of care seniors to special care home