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Received: 1 October 2017

Accepted: 28 February 2018

First Online: 12 March 2018

Authors’ information

: LC is Assistant Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto. MH is a postdoctoral fellow (supervised by CAE), Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta. JY is a MPH student, Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alberta, and research fellow (supervised by AW), Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. CAE is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation (Tier 1) (2005–2018), Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta. PN is Emeritus Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. AW is Professor & Division Director, Capital Health Chair in Healthy Ageing, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta.

: The study protocol was approved by the University of Alberta (Pro00012517_REN2), University of Calgary (ID: 23130), and the Interior Health Region of British Columbia (ID 2010-022) research ethics boards, as well as operational approval from each residential LTC facility. Written informed consent was obtained from study participants prior to data collection.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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