Cara Brown, PhD, MSc, BMR (OT)

Research affiliations

Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba

Research summary

My research program focuses on supporting community-living for older adults despite complex health and social situations. Under this primary umbrella, I have two main foci:

1. Smoothing care transitions between hospital and community
   This work is focused on improving care transitions between tertiary and primary care for adults with complex health and social needs. This work has a large engagement component, engaging people with lived experience, health and social service providers and policymakers in the design and implementation of the research. Related to this work is research on team-based interprofessional primary care.
    
2. Research engagement with CLSA
   I am the local site investigator for the Canadian Longitudinal Study for Aging, a large, national, long-term study of more than 50,000 individuals that is helping understand how to live well as we age. I have a leadership role on this large team in the area of participant engagement. As the first occupational therapist on the CLSA team, I would love to collaborate with other occupational therapists on research with the CLSA dataset that will advance occupation science.