Browsing by Author "Marlett, Nancy"

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    Grey Matters: a guide to collaborative research with seniors
    (University of Calgary Press, 2010) Marlett, Nancy; Emes, Claudia
    This study marks a major step in making collaboration between seniors, academic researchers, and community researchers a reality. Many aging adults are motivated to undertake research projects in later life or even return to university after retirement. Grey Matters is the result of a pilot project developed to study the effectiveness of collaborative research involving seniors. Because the project was such a success, the authors were encouraged to make their model available both to seniors interested in undertaking their own research and to those hoping to involve seniors in collaborative research. This guide provides a helpful framework for making the most of research projects by and with seniors, including sections on such techniques as narrative interviews, focus groups, and surveys. Grey Matters is the inaugural Open Access book from the University of Calgary Press.
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    Oh! Canada: South East Asian Immigrant Experience of Osteoarthritis (OA) Surgery
    (2013-08) Kalia, Rashika; Khan, Rooh-Afza; Sheridan, Mary; Marlett, Nancy; Shklarov, Svetlana; Gill, Marlyn
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    The Emerging Discourse of Transdisciplinary Neurorehabilitation: Building Healthcare and Health Capacity on the Moral High Ground
    (2014-01-29) Baird, Donna; Marlett, Nancy
    This 2-year comprehensive case study is the first of its kind to uncover the mechanisms through which a transdisciplinary neurorehabilitation team operationalizes the population health goal of increasing personal and family capacity. Data collection strategies included audio-taped interviews and focus groups, field observations and document analysis. A lengthy analysis was required to identify and unravel the emerging discourse of transdisciplinary practice from the traditional discourse of medicine. A transdisciplinary meta-narrative was constructed using interview and focus group data follow by interpretative repertoire analysis. The analytic approach allowed for a nuanced description of transdisciplinary practice to emerge. The interpretative repertoires coalesced around six discursive topics: the traditional model, creation of the clinic, transdisciplinary leadership, team membership, therapeutic interventions and physician practices. Result of this study demonstrate how this rare transdisciplinary healthcare team integrates a population health lens, salutogenic theory and transdisciplinary philosophy to maximize the capacity of individuals and families to take control of their health and health circumstances. The team also works collaboratively with family members to help clients reintegrate into their home, workforce and community and reduce reliance on family and the healthcare system. Finally, the study demonstrates how transdisciplinary practice, longevity, a shared ethos and an organization-wide orientation to salutogenesis are resources for organizational efficiency and employee health. The transdisciplinary team studied for this project is an example of a theoretically grounded and radical alternative to the existing health services paradigm. A transdisciplinary approach may be the nascent solution needed to curb the soaring cost of chronic illness in Canada.
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    Visible Strengths: Older Women’s Resilience in the Context of Age Related Adversity
    (2017) Gulbrandsen, Carolyn; Walsh, Christine; Hewson, Jennifer; Lund, Darren; Marlett, Nancy; O'Connor, Deborah
    The objective of the qualitative study was to describe older women’s resilience according to women’s interpretations of their experiences and their understandings of resilience and adversity. The study combined constructivist grounded theory methodology and feminist PAR to create new knowledge about older women’s resilience. Both qualitative methodologies contributed to the study in unique, yet equally important ways. Constructivist grounded theory involved the use of systematic data collection and analysis methods to construct a theory about older women’s resilience and FPAR provided a framework of ethical principles and bridged the construction of new knowledge with social justice oriented action. Drawing from researcher reflexivity, this study explains how every aspect of the research process, including the implementation of constructivist grounded theory methods, was guided by FPAR principles. The constructivist grounded theory created from the researcher’s interpretations of participants’ experiences and the recommendations women formulated during the interviews and focus groups informed the action component of this study that is essential in FPAR. Constructivist grounded theory methodology guided the collection and analysis of data from interviews with 25 women ages 55-73 and from two focus groups. Intersectionality and critical feminist gerontology served as theoretical frameworks for examining the diversity of women’s experiences. The researcher interpreted women’s reflections on their experiences and identified a core category and a constellation of distinct yet interrelated categories, sub-categories and themes. The core category that described the experiences of the women in the study and their understanding of resilience was learning and cultivating wisdom in response to change. Study findings represented women’s diverse experiences and interpretations of change. Women in the study described how their resilience was related to distinct types of change, including identity related change, crisis, loss and significant experiences, how their learning has transformed into wisdom over the course of their lives, and how their resilience is bolstered by sources of scaffolding. The implications for practice described in the study are informed by participants’ recommendations and include valuing the significance of the meaning older women ascribe to their experiences and developing programs that provide sources of scaffolding identified by women in the study.