{"id":34287,"date":"2015-07-08T08:10:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T13:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=34287"},"modified":"2015-07-08T08:10:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T13:10:46","slug":"new-research-examining-healthcare-issues-for-minority-language-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/07\/new-research-examining-healthcare-issues-for-minority-language-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"New research examining healthcare issues for minority language communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A new research study by Brock University nursing students is looking for French-speaking students to volunteer their time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Health Canada-backed REVIVRE research study will involve the students volunteering at a long-term healthcare facility in the city of Welland, which has a large French-speaking population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The students will be spending time with residents of Foyer Richelieu participating in recreational activities such as playing cards, bowling, knitting or making puzzles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The goals for the students is to increase their knowledge on the importance of health professionals in minority language communities, and to potentially increase their motivation to pursue a health career working with these types of communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">For the residents, the goal is to improve their quality of life and increase their social engagement through French-speaking healthcare volunteers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ultimately, the long-term goal of the study is for adults in long-term care facilities and other Canadians in official minority\u00a0language communities to have increased access to health professionals in their languages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">For more information, or to take part, contact Stephanie Blais, Research Assistant, 905-688-5550 x1552 or <\/span>sblais@brocku.ca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new research study by Brock University nursing students is looking for French-speaking students to volunteer their time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[28,3011,34,3325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34288,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34287\/revisions\/34288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}