Integrating Seniors Centres Into Primary Healthcare: A Community-Engaged Approach to Collaborative Care
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This presentation highlights the vital role of seniors centres as third places in promoting older adults’ well-being and social connectivity, yet their integration into primary healthcare is often overlooked. This project aims to foster collaboration between seniors centres and healthcare organizations to co-develop a community-integrated health model that enhances healthcare access, social inclusion, and well-being for older adults. Through five cross-sectoral workshops rotated across senior centre locations, we engaged representatives from four Vancouver-based seniors centres through the Alliance of Seniors Centres and four healthcare organizations—Providence Health Care, Vancouver Division of Family Practice, Vancouver Coastal Health, and Mid-Main Community Health Centre. Guided by community-engaged research principles, the workshops focused on a future research and practice agenda, long-term goals, and identifying conditions for success with measurable impact indicators toward a Theory of Change framework. A key engagement feature was the intergenerational pairing of seniors with students, fostering cross-generational learning, research inclusion, and community ties. Findings were analyzed using a thematic framework approach, and key themes were validated across stakeholder groups to ensure relevance in shaping integrated healthcare models. Preliminary themes include improved collaboration between seniors centres and healthcare providers, the role of third places in supporting healthy aging outcomes, and establishing a sustainable research agenda. A key implication involves opportunities to advance community-based research by reshaping healthcare delivery to be more inclusive, accessible, and responsive to older adults. Findings will inform policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and seniors centre staff and Board members, offering actionable strategies for integrating seniors centres into primary healthcare.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.025 | 0.016 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.033 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".