Several of the chapters of this textbook draw from this case study. This case describes the efforts of healthcare professionals to develop and implement the Seniors Program.^[1] The following sections present an overview of this program, describing what it was, identifying key dates, and discussing significant events during its life cycle.

This chapter presents a highly abridged summary of the case. If you wish to learn more, you can find the full details in the book, Values, Rationality, and Power: Developing Organizational Wisdom.

The Seniors Program: A Case Study

In 2013, a British Columbia (BC) health authority entered into a collaboration with a second health authority in Nova Scotia (NS) and a non-profit foundation (herein named the Foundation). This collaboration aimed to develop an intervention to delay the onset of frailty in healthy but at-risk older adults. This intervention became known as the Seniors Program.