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Barbara Farrell, PharmD explains that sedatives are prescribed as short-term or quick fixes to immediate problems, but trouble occurs when there is no guidance for coming back off them.

Primary care physicians and community stakeholder perspectives on social prescribing

One of Bruyère's long-term care homes selected Esprit-ai for an innovative pilot project to assist staff in managing resident repositioning workflows and alert staff when residents are at risk of falling.

Bruyère is helping older adults transition home, safter and faster following a hospital stay, with Carefor as the care service provider in newly expanded Bruyère@Home program.

A researcher with Bruyère Health Research Institute has co-authored a study into people with opioid use disorder and their access to palliative care.

Barbara Farrell, PharmD, spoke with the New York Times on polypharmacy – the use of multiple prescription drugs.

Elizabeth Payne with the Ottawa Citizen recently visited Bruyère’s John and Jennifer Ruddy Geriatric Day Hospital.

New therapies would mean change at all levels.

Palliative care researchers at Bruyère tested an accelerated five-day therapeutic approach that could help palliative patients with psychological distress.