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Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation
The Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, with funding support from the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care works with consumers, researchers, practitioners, policy and decision makers to create not only a research agenda but a knowledge mobilization agenda to create the necessary changes to reduce and/or eliminate this devastating injury and to improve the quality of life for those Ontarians living a neurotrauma injury.
Evidence-Based Review of Moderate To Severe Acquired Brain Injury
The Evidence-Based Review of Moderate To Severe Acquired Brain Injury (ABIEBR) is a joint project to develop an evidence-based review of the literature for rehabilitation or rehabilitation-related interventions for ABI. The principle of the ABIEBR is to improve the quality of ABI rehabilitation by synthesizing the current literature into a utilizable format and laying the foundation for effective knowledge transfer to improve programs and services
The effect of traumatic brain injury on the health of homeless people
Article in the Canadian Medical Journal: October 7, 2008
Authors:
Stephen W. Hwang, Angela Colantonio, Shirley Chiu, George Tolomiczenko, Alex Kiss, Laura Cowan, Donald A. Redelmeier, Wendy Levinson
Background:
To determine the lifetime prevalence of traumatic brain injury and its association with current health conditions in a representative sample of homeless people in Toronto, Ontario.
Exploring post injury living environments for children and youth with acquired brain injury
Article in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: September 2008
Authors: Carol A. DeMatteo, Martha A. Cousins, Chia-Yu A. Lin, Mary C. Law, Angela Colantonio, Colin Macarthur
Objectives:
To explore and describe the extent to which children and youth (10-18y) with acquired brain injury in Ontario are living in environments considered inappropriate, to describe the nature of services and supports in those environments, and to determine appropriate living environments for children and youth with acquired brain injury.
Young adults with traumatic brain injury in long-term care home: A population-based study
Article in the Australian Academic Press: May 2010
Authors: Angela Colantonio, Dana Howse, Jigasha Patel
Objectives:
The aim of this research was to identify the number and characteristics of adults under the age of 65 with a diagnosis of traumatic brain injury (TBI) living in long-term care homes (nursing homes, homes for the aged and charitable homes) in Ontario, Canada. As similar research in Australia has found, young persons in long-term care homes in Ontario, Canada, have high level personal health needs, however the appropriateness of this environment is questionable.
Living environments for people with moderate to severe acquired brain injury
Article in
Healthcare Policy, 5 (4), e120-e138. 2010
Authors:
Angela Colantonio, Dana Howse, Bonnie Kirsh, Teresa Chiu, Rachel Zulia, Charissa Levy
Brain Injury Association of Canada:
ABI-TBI Research Happenings
Improving the quality of life for all Canadians affected by acquired brain injury and promoting its prevention
2009 Atkinson Series: Brainstorm
Alanna Mitchell, a Toronto-based writer and journalist who specializes in global science issues, spent much of the past year investigating the controversial push to use brain science to improve education. She travelled to England, France, Australia and the U.S. as part of her 2008 Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy.
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