Table 3

Knowledge translation plan

Knowledge generated Strategies/target audience
Researchers Knowledge users Expected outcomes
  • Characteristics of elders’ social participation associated with individual and community wellness

  • Characteristics of intergenerational solidarity associated with individual and community wellness

  • Characteristics of elders’ social participation and intergenerational solidarity associated with individual and community wellness not covered in the literature

  • Articles in peer-reviewed journals

  • Scientific conferences

  • Workshops

  • Coffee meeting

  • Workshops with community members, decision-makers and researchers

  • Advisory committee involved at all stages of the research

  • Magazine article for a non-scientific audience (with indigenous collaborators)

  • Toolkit on elders’ social participation (with indigenous collaborators)

  • Radio interviews (with indigenous collaborators)

  • Improved understanding of elders’ social participation and intergenerational solidarities

  • Enhanced cultural security and equity

  • Partnership among researchers, decision-makers and knowledge users

  • Increased awareness among Canadians of the contribution to wellness of indigenous elders’ social participation

  • Appropriation and translation of knowledge by decision-makers, indigenous and non-indigenous people