A researcher at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Paulette Guitard has received a $300,000 grant from Health Canada to develop a project that will help seniors who have had a fall.
The project called “Stable, Able and Strong” will develop strategies to help seniors maintain or resume their activities at home and in the community after a fall. This post-fall support program will address the fear of falling along with personal, environmental and other risk factors related to falls.
Guitard, an assistant professor in the occupational therapy program of the School of Rehabilitation Sciences, will work in cooperation with the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists on the project slated for completion in June 2008.
