Barb Pesut

Community health-based volunteer program spreads across Canada

By Patty Wellborn on June 15, 2017

A UBC Okanagan professor’s idea to improve quality of life for seriously ill adults is spreading across the country.

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Barb Pesut, Canada Research Chair in Health, Ethics and Diversity.

Canada Research Chair title extended further five years for UBC professor

By Patty Wellborn on February 15, 2016

UBC researcher Barb Pesut’s tenure as Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Health, Ethics, and Diversity has been renewed for a further five years.

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UBC Okanagan Canada Research Chair Barb Pesut and Health Navigator Brenda Hooper look over a workbook created to help train volunteer health navigators to work with chronically ill seniors living in rural communities.

UBC study finds nurse 'navigators' play vital role in senior care

By Patty Wellborn on April 21, 2015

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.

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How to define the quality of life when illness limits what you can do

By Patty Wellborn on March 5, 2014

Health care experts will discuss how to improve quality of life for people living with advanced life-limiting illnesses.

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UBC researchers are ready to engage with the community during Celebrate Research week, March 3-7.

Get the inside story on what goes on in UBC’s labs and classrooms at Celebrate Research 2014

By Jody Jacob on February 28, 2014

If UBC’s walls could talk, what would they say?

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Selkirk College nursing instructor Tammy McLean will co-lead a six-month study with UBC researchers on care for those with a chronic, long-term illness and their families.

UBC, Selkirk College team up to help those with serious chronic illness

By Patty Wellborn on December 16, 2013

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.

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