Julia Brassolotto, University of Lethbridge

Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of Lethbridge profile.

Health services and policy research aging end-of-life bioethics health equity care work

Latest papers

Age-Friendly Communities: Are they also "Friendly" for Death, Dying, Grief, and Bereavement?
Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement · 2024 · first author
Rural healthcare professionals' participation in Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD): beyond a binary decision.
BMC palliative care · 2024
Placing MAiD: A qualitative study of medical assistance in dying in rural Alberta.
Health & place · 2023 · first author

All 9 publications

Latest funding

Autonomy and vulnerability: A feminist political economy analysis of medical assistance in dying in a post-Bill C-7 Canada
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$30,230
Supporting safe and healthy sexual expression for people living with dementia in urban and rural long-term care settings
CIHR · 2020 · Principal investigator
$325,124
Medical Assistance in Dying: Ethical and Policy issues in Southern Rural Alberta
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$57,322

All 5 grants and awards

9 publications.

01

Age-Friendly Communities: Are they also "Friendly" for Death, Dying, Grief, and Bereavement?

Brassolotto J, Banerjee A

Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement2024First author

DOI: 10.1017/s0714980823000624 PMID: 38073536

02

Rural healthcare professionals' participation in Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD): beyond a binary decision.

Sedgwick M, Brassolotto J, Manduca-Barone A

BMC palliative care2024

DOI: 10.1186/s12904-024-01440-4 PMID: 38664675

03

Placing MAiD: A qualitative study of medical assistance in dying in rural Alberta.

Brassolotto J, Manduca-Barone A, Sedgwick M

Health & place2023First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103073 PMID: 37390667

04

Medical Assistance in Dying: A Review of Related Canadian News Media Texts.

Brassolotto J, Manduca-Barone A, Zurbrigg P

The Journal of medical humanities2023First author

DOI: 10.1007/s10912-022-09764-z PMID: 36454353

05

Examining dual roles in long-term-care homes in rural Alberta: a qualitative study.

Brassolotto J, Haney CA, Caspar S, Spenceley S

Rural and remote health2021First author

DOI: 10.22605/rrh6231 PMID: 33562993

06

"If you do not find the world tasty and sexy, you are out of touch with the most important things in life": Resident and family member perspectives on sexual expression in continuing care.

Brassolotto J, Howard L, Manduca-Barone A

Journal of aging studies2020First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2020.100849 PMID: 32487340

07

Scarcity discourses and their impacts on renal care policy, practices, and everyday experiences in rural British Columbia.

Brassolotto J, Daly T

Social science & medicine (1982)2016First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.01.033 PMID: 26854624

08

Ideological and organizational components of differing public health strategies for addressing the social determinants of health.

Raphael D, Brassolotto J, Baldeo N

Health promotion international2015

DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dau022 PMID: 24740752

09

Understanding action on the social determinants of health: a critical realist analysis of in-depth interviews with staff of nine Ontario public health units.

Raphael D, Brassolotto J

BMC research notes2015Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s13104-015-1064-5 PMID: 25885537

Autonomy and vulnerability: A feminist political economy analysis of medical assistance in dying in a post-Bill C-7 Canada

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Brassolotto, Julia

Keywords: Medical Assistance in Dying; MAiD; Canada; health policy; feminist political economy; ethics; autonomy; vulnerability

$30,230

Supporting safe and healthy sexual expression for people living with dementia in urban and rural long-term care settings

Principal investigatorCIHR2020Project Grant

Principal investigators: Kontos, Pia C; Brassolotto, Julia M; Grigorovich, Alisa; Poole, Lisa

Keywords: Dementia; Education; Intimacy; Long-Term Care Homes; Policy; Rural; Sexual Expression; Urban

$325,124

Medical Assistance in Dying: Ethical and Policy issues in Southern Rural Alberta

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Brassolotto, Julia

Keywords: Medical assistance in dying; Rural; Alberta; Bioethics; Cultural studies; Health policy; Media representations

$57,322

Imagining age-friendly communities within communities: international promising practices

Co-investigatorSSHRC2018Partnership Grants

Keywords: age friendly communities; aging; promising practices; policies and systems; design; approaches to care; conditions and quality of life; international comparative studies; gender; LGBTIQ2S; ethno-racial; Indigenous; abilities; dementias; poverty

$1,884,103

Imagining age-friendly communities within communities: international promising practices

Co-investigatorSSHRC2017Partnership Grants

Keywords: age friendly communities; aging; promising practices; policies and systems; design; approaches to care; conditions and quality of life; international comparative studies; gender; LGBTIQ2S; ethno-racial; Indigenous; abilities; dementias; poverty

$615,897

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Healthsciences
Health Policy and Management
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Co-authors at University of Lethbridge, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Monique Sedgwick

Faculty

2 shared papers, latest 2024

Sienna Caspar

Healthsciences

1 shared papers, latest 2021

Albert Banerjee

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2024

Tamara Daly

Health Policy and Management

1 shared papers, latest 2016

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Health services and policy research Dear Professor Brassolotto, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Age-Friendly Communities: Are they also "Friendly" for Death, Dying, Grief, and Bereavement?" (2024), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Autonomy and vulnerability: A feminist political economy analysis of medical assistance in dying in a post-Bill C-7 Canada" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]