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Community health-based volunteer program spreads across Canada
A UBC Okanagan professor’s idea to improve quality of life for seriously ill adults is spreading across the country.
Canada Research Chair title extended further five years for UBC professor
UBC researcher Barb Pesut’s tenure as Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Health, Ethics, and Diversity has been renewed for a further five years.
UBC study finds nurse 'navigators' play vital role in senior care
Retired baby boomers—professionals looking for something meaningful to do during retirement—might be the answer to helping seniors with chronic illness live independent lives.
A three-year study conducted by researchers at UBC Okanagan has determined that with the help of a trained professional to navigate their health care, chronically ill seniors in rural communities are able to maintain better, healthier lives than those without help.
Get the inside story on what goes on in UBC’s labs and classrooms at Celebrate Research 2014
If UBC’s walls could talk, what would they say?
UBC, Selkirk College team up to help those with serious chronic illness
With increasing numbers of Canadians living with serious chronic illnesses, health care experts are looking for ways to make life easier for them and their caregivers.
UBC and Princeton residents team up to review care for chronically ill
Teambuilding grant brings residents and researchers together.
Benefits from academic research touch lives everywhere
UBC's Okanagan campus has $10 million worth of funded projects