Heather Keller
Professor
Department of Kinesiology
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
Dr. Heather Keller is a Professor in the Department of kinesiology, University of Waterloo, University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Research Interest
Dr. Heather Keller research is focused on improving the health and quality of life of older adults through food and nutrition. Frail older adults living in the community, recently transitioning from hospital and/or living in long term care residences are my focus. Persons with dementia and their care partners are a specific group of interest. I use mixed methods to answer a variety of research questions such as identification of malnutrition through implementation of screening and diagnosis processes and preventing poor food intake through multi-component interventions that address food access, food quality and mealtime experience. My research is practice focused with knowledge translation and implementation science components.
Publications
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Vucea V, Keller HH, Morrison JM, Duncan AM, Duizer LM, Carrier N, Lengyel CO, Slaughter SE. Nutritional quality of regular and pureed menus in Canadian long term care homes: an analysis of the Making the Most of Mealtimes (M3) project. BMC Nutrition. 2017 Oct 23;3(1):80.
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Keller HH, Carrier N, Slaughter SE, Lengyel C, Steele CM, Duizer L, Morrison J, Brown KS, Chaudhury H, Yoon MN, Duncan AM. Prevalence and determinants of poor food intake of residents living in long-term care. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2017 Nov 1;18(11):941-7.
