Diane Allan, MA Research Associate Doctoral Student Centre on Aging University of Victoria PO Box 1700 STN CSC Victoria, British Columbia Canada V8W 2Y2 Phone: (250) 472-5501 Email: dallan@uvic.ca

Educational Background

PhD (in progress), University of Victoria
MA, University of Western Ontario
BPE, McMaster University

Research Interests

Health care services research; gerontology; palliative and end-of-life care; rural populations; aboriginal health care services; quantitative research methods; GIS and health care; spatial analysis.

Current Research and Scholarship

An evaluation of Canada's Compassionate Care Benefit from a family caregivers' perspective. (Allison Williams and Valorie Crooks [Co-PIs], K.I. Stajduhar, D. Allan, R. Cohen, K. Brazil); Canadian Institutes of Health Research; $165,490. (2006)

Family caregiving at end of life: A women's health issue (Priscilla Koop [PI], M. deJong-Berg, R. Cohen, A. Williams, K.I. Stajduhar, D. Allan); Canadian Foundation for Women's Health; $8035.43 (2006-2007).

Measuring the Quality of End of Life Care Provided in Inpatient Health Care Settings. (Kelli Stajduhar and Heather Cook [Co-PIs], D. Allan, D. Heyland, D. Bidgood, L. Norgrove, R. Cohen, A. Williams); Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research; $99,796 (2006-2008).

An examination of the current state of adult day care programs on South Vancouver Island. (Phyllis McGee [PI], D. Allan, V. Doyle); Vancouver Island Health Authority; $8,000 (2004-2005).

Publications

Stajduhar, K.I., Allan, D.E., Cohen, S.R., & Heyland, D. (2008). Preferences for location of death of seriously ill hospitalized patients: Perspectives from Canadian patients and their family caregivers. Palliative Medicine, 22, 85-88.

Crooks, V., Williams, A., Stajduhar, K.I., Allan, D., & Cohen, S. R. (2007). Family caregivers’ information transfer and knowledge acquisition geographies – the case of Canada’s Compassionate Care Benefit. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 39(3), 36-54.

Penning, M.J., Brackley, M., & Allan, D.E. (2006). Home care and health reform: Changes in home care utilization in one Canadian province, 1990-2000. The Gerontologist, 46, 744-758.

Williams, A., Crooks, V., Stajduhar, K.I., Allan, D., & Cohen, R. (2006).
Improving Canada’s Compassionate Care Benefit: Recommendations from Family Caregivers Providing End-of-Life Care for Relatives with Advanced Chronic Illness. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 12(9), 438-445.

Stajduhar, K.I.,  Bidgood, D., Norgrove, L., Allan, D., & Waskiewich, S. (2006).  Using quality improvement to enhance research readiness in palliative care. Journal of Healthcare Quality, 28(4), 22-28 .

Allan, D.E., & Cloutier-Fisher, D. (2006). Health services utilization of older adults in British Columbia: Making sense of geography. Canadian Journal on Aging, 25(2), 219-232.

Chappell, N.L., Funk, L.M., & Allan, D.E. (2006). Defining 'community' in health promotion research. American Journal of Health Promotion, 21(2), 99-126.

Shaver, J. and Allan, D.E. (2005). Care receiver/caregiver assessments of functioning: Are there gender differences? Canadian Journal on Aging, 24(2), 139-150.

Allan, D.E., Stajduhar, K., and Reid, R.C. (2005). “The uses of provincial administrative health databases for research on palliative care: Insights from British Columbia, Canada”, BMC Palliative Care 4(2). Link Here

Lin, G, Allan, D.E., and Penning, M.J. (2002). Examining distance effects on hospitalizations using GIS: A study of three health regions in British Columbia, Canada. Environment and Planning A 34, 2037-2053.

MacKinnon, J.R., Noh, S., Lariviere, J., MacPhail, A., Allan, D.E., and Laliberte, D. (1995). The study of therapeutic effects of horseback riding for children with cerebral palsy. Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 15(1), 17-34.

MacKinnon, J.R., Noh, S., Laliberte, J., Lariviere, A., Allan,D.E. (1995). Therapeutic horseback riding: A review of the literature. Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 15(1), 1-15.