Frances Carr

Area of Study / Keywords

Capacity aphasia

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About

Personal Statement:

My work in quality improvement to improve patient safety and clinician practice has resulted in several research studies. One area is the use and misuse of prescription medication in the elderly. Because elderly people can have many complex and simultaneous health concerns that can disguise capacity and affect daily life, I look at ways to improve assessments of decision-making ability in the elderly, specifically financial decision-making. 

Dr. Frances Carr received her medical degree from Leeds University in the UK, completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, followed by a geriatric subspecialty residency at the University of Alberta. She joined the University of Alberta’s medical staff as a geriatrician and the Division of Geriatric Medicine as a clinical lecturer in 2015. In 2018, she became an assistant clinical professor. Dr. Carr is a graduate of the Department of Medicine’s Master of Science program in Translational Medicine.

Leadership and Collaborations:

Dr. Carr is the divisional lead for quality improvement in the Department of Medicine and has contributed to Connect Care’s Clinical Knowledge and Content Management Program in the area of delirium screening and treatment. She received a Champion of Care award in 2016. In 2017, she was named Alberta Health Services’ Seniors Health lead for the development and implementation of provincial clinical knowledge and served on the Health Research Ethics Board of Alberta’s Clinical Trials Committee. 

Clinical Interests

Dr. Carr cares for patients at the University of Alberta Hospital and is a member of the Westview Geriatric Assessment Team providing specialized geriatric care supporting primary care in Stony Plain.

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Research

Dr. Carr received a Northern Alberta Academic Family Medicine Fund grant to conduct a quality improvement project about deprescribing the tranquilizer benzodiazepine. She has authored publications in such peer-reviewed journals as Canadian Geriatric Journal and Medical Legal Journal resulting from her clinical research on subjects including Vitamin B12 deficiency, legal and financial decision-making in aphasic patients and care roles for those with delirium. Her studies of financial decision-making in people with aphasia involved the development and validation of a visually based tool to help assess capacity. She is a research affiliate with the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital.

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Teaching

In addition to classroom teaching on geriatric subjects, Dr. Carr gives clinical instruction to medical students and residents during outpatient clinics, ward services and inpatient consultations at the University of Alberta Hospital. She delivers continuing medical education sessions on topics in geriatrics for allied health professionals.

Medico-Legal Journal. 2022 May; 10.1177/00258172221094121

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Canadian Geriatrics Society 41st Annual Scientific Meeting 2021 . 2022 February;

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Leung K.K., Carr F.M., Russell M.J., Bremault-Phillips S., Triscott J.A.C.

Age and Aging. 2022 January; 51 (1) 10.1093/ageing/afab194

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Charles L., Torti J.M.I., Brémault-Phillips S., Dobbs B., Tian P.G.J., Khera S., Abbasi M., Chan K., Carr F., Parmar J.

Canadian Geriatrics Journal. 2021 March; 24 (1):26-35 10.5770/CGJ.24.400

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Canadian Geriatrics Society 40th Annual Scientific Meeting 2021 . 2021 March;

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Charles L., Torti J.M.I., Brémault-Phillips S., Dobbs B., Tian P.G.J., Khera S., Abbasi M., Chan K., Carr F., Parmar J.

Canadian Geriatrics Journal. 2021 February; 24 (1):26-35 10.5770/CGJ.24.400