Adjunct
University of Toronto, Canada
Dr. Frances Morton-Chang's research and professional practice specializes in the areas of health policy, integrated care for complex populations (those experiencing cognitive, physical, and/or intellectual challenges), co-design with clients and care partners, and dementia-friendly built environments. Her research on Seniors Campuses as mechanisms for broad spectrum senior care through the inaugural CIHR Health System Impact Fellowship with AdvantAge Ontario and the University of Toronto showcases the art of the possible in integrated health and social care. This research builds on an earlier Post-Doctoral Fellowship where she worked with a CIHR funded team analyzing and comparing integrated community-based primary healthcare approaches for high-needs older persons. Her Doctoral work was funded through a CIHR Banting and Best Doctoral Scholarship where she examined the mix of resources required to maintain cognitively impaired seniors deemed eligible for long-term care facility placement safely in the community for as long as possible.
Her role as a researcher and adjunct lecturer at the University of Toronto Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation is informed by past roles as Director of Dementia Programs at the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging, Director of Seniors Programs at WoodGreen Community Services and her current position as Seniors Strategy Program Manager for the Regional Municipality of York' leading the development of a new proposed Plan for Seniors.