John Hirdes | School of Public Health Sciences – University of Waterloo

Office:  TJB 2218
Phone: 519-888-4567 ext. 42007
Email: hirdes@uwaterloo.ca
Website: interRAI Canada
Assistant: Julie Koreck
My primary areas of interest include geriatric assessment, mental health, health care and service delivery, case mix systems, quality measurement, health information management, and quantitative research methods. Working as the senior Canadian Fellow and as a Board Member of interRAI, an international consortium of researchers from over 35 countries, I also chair interRAI’s International Network of Excellence in Mental Health and the interRAI Network of Canada.
I am currently not accepting applications from graduate students.
PhD Aging, Health and Well-being student, Joanna Sinn is supervised by Professor Hirdes. Watch her experience as she travels to a conference to deliver a presentation. Joanna is primarily interested in care transitions, resource allocation, and quality improvement. Her research uses data from various sources, including the standardized clinical assessments used internationally and developed by interRAI. Through this research, she is hoping to inform how heath care organizations and decision makers can better enable persons to live and thrive in the community.
Graduate studies application details
BSc Health Studies, University of Waterloo
MA Sociology, University of Waterloo
Diploma Gerontology, University of Waterloo
PhD Sociology, University of Waterloo
PDF Research, Freeport Hospital 
Member of the Order of Canada (C.M.)
Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
Recipient of the University of Waterloo Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision, 2012
See Google Scholar for full list of publications.
Mitchell, L.A., Hirdes, J., Poss, J.W., Slegers-Boyd, C., Caldarelli, H., Martin, L. Informal caregivers of clients with neurological conditions: profiles, patterns and risk factors for distress from a home care prevalence study. BMC Health Services Research, 2015 Aug; 15(1): 350.
Tempier, R., Bouattane el M., Hirdes, J.P.  Access to psychiatrists by French-speaking patients in Ontario hospitals: 2005 to 2013. Healthcare Management Forum, 2015 Jul; 28(4):167-171.
*Salam-White, L., Hirdes, J.P., Poss, J.W., Blums, J. Predictors of emergency room visits or acute hospital admissions prior to death among hospice palliative care clients in Ontario: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Palliative Care, 2014 Jul 11; 13: 35.
Hirdes, J.P., Poss, J.W., Mitchell, L., Korngut, L., Heckman, G. Use of the interRAI CHESS scale to predict mortality among persons with neurological conditions in three care settings. PloS One, 2014 Jun; 9(6): e99066
*Danila,O., Hirdes, J.P., Maxwell, C.J., Marrie, R.A., Patten, S., Pringsheim, T, Jetté, N. Prevalence of neurological conditions across the continuum of care based on interRAI assessments. BMC Health Services Research, 2014 Jan 22; 14: 29
*Danila,O., Hirdes, J.P., Maxwell, C.J., Marrie, R.A., Patten, S., Pringsheim, T, Jetté, N. Prevalence of neurological conditions across the continuum of care based on interRAI assessments. BMC Health Services Research, 2014 Jan 22; 14: 29
Szczerbińska, K., Hirdes, J.P., Zyczkowska, J. Good News and Bad News: Depressive symptoms decline and under treatment increases with age in home care and institutional settings. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2012 Sep; 20(12):1045-1056.
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