Public Lecture

Dr. Kate de Medeiros

What counts as “quality of life” in dementia care?

Date: October 10, 2019

Time: 12PM

Location: Edmonton Clinic Health Academy (ECHA) - Room 1-182

Dr Kate de Medeiros, PhD
Gerontologist
Associate Professor
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

Bio: Kate de Medeiros (Associate Professor, the Robert H. and Nancy J. Blayney Professor Gerontology), received her PhD in gerontology from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 2006. Her research interests are concerned…

Public Lecture

Dr Sube Banerjee

Dementia: Meeting & beating a great 21st century health & social care challenge

Date: October 8, 2019

Time: 4PM

Location: Edmonton Clinic Health Academy (ECHA) - Room 1-182

Dr Sube Banerjee, MBE, MBBS MSC MBA MD FRCPsych
Geriatric Psychiatrist
Professor & Dean
University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK

Bio: Dr Banerjee is active in health system development and works with industry and governments on health systems, policy and strategies to improve health for…

Estabrooks’ $329K John R. Evans Leaders Fund Grant mitigates Canada's looming long-term care population explosion through accessible data sharing

August 13, 2019

The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) Fund helps UAlberta researchers conduct leading-edge research by giving them the tools and equipment they need to become leaders in their field.

Canada’s long-term care (LTC) system, already overextended, faces unprecedented growth in the coming decades. With…

The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) intends to release new data in 2019 in addition to previously released alphanumeric data from baseline and follow-up 1 (FUP1), baseline biomarkers related to clinical chemistry, genome-wide genotyping, and images from retinal scans, DEXA and carotid ultrasound.

This grant will support research projects that use the available CLSA data in order to better understand how (individually and in combination) the biological, medical, psychological, social,…

By Matthias Hoben and Carole Estabrooks
Published: Sun., July 14, 2019

Nursing homes fill a vital role for older adults unable to remain at home or in other supportive environments.

Nursing home care is costly to governments. In 2017, Canadian governments spent close to $19 billion on care provided in nursing homes and supportive living facilities. Individuals are also expected to contribute to their stay and spent more than $8 million in 2017.

What can we learn from provinces with differing policy…

Dr. Carole Estabrooks is driven to improve the lives and care of older adults living in residential nursing homes, and her research is setting the Canadian standard on care for seniors. With the renewal of her Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation, she and her team will continue this vital work

The Canadian population is aging at a dramatic rate, and research into aging, seniors' care, and age-related health conditions is increasingly urgent. Older adults with Alzheimer's disease…

CIHR is embarking on a new strategic plan and is seeking your guidance in helping identify areas of greatest strategic importance:

• How should CIHR spend its budget?
• How can CIHR help build the capacity of the Canadian health research community?
• How can CIHR help spread new research knowledge to improve the health of Canadians?

Your answers matter a great deal as they will help inform the development of a new strategic plan to guide CIHR over the coming years.

I am encouraging you, a…

Canada's first national dementia strategy sets out a vision for the future and identifies common principles and national objectives to help guide actions by all levels of government, non-governmental organizations, communities, families and individuals. In developing the strategy, we sought at all times to ensure that people living with dementia and the family and friends who provide care to them were at the heart of these efforts.

Read the full strategy here:

Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) has commissioned the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) to create the world’s largest survey on people’s attitudes around dementia, which will form the basis for the World Alzheimer Report 2019, to be released in September.

ADI’s survey is fully anonymous, accessible and available both online and offline in multiple languages.

The survey will only take around 10 minutes of your time but completing it will benefit people with dementia…