CIHR INSTITUTE OF AGING SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

CIHR Summer Program in Aging: Save the Date!

The CIHR Institute of Aging is collaborating with Concordia University's PERFORM Centre on an innovative training event.

This unique, interactive training program will run from May 15-19, 2017 and will be held in Montreal, Quebec. Graduate students and post-doctoral fellows working in, or interested in learning about, research related to the area of physical activity and aging are encouraged to…

Alberta Health Continuing Care and the Seniors’ Health Strategic Clinical Network invite you to a videoconference meeting with Dr. Larry Chambers, Scientific Advisor, Alzheimer Society of Canada, who will present on a 2016 report:

Prevalence and monetary costs of dementia in Canada (2016): a report by the Alzheimer Society of Canada

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/hpcdp-pspmc/36-10/ar-04-eng.php

 There will be time for a discussion on this report and other topics that arise.

The…

Prevalence and monetary costs of dementia in Canada (2016)¹: a report by the Alzheimer Society of Canada

Alzheimer Society of Canada

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Background

Dementia prevalence estimates vary among population-based studies, depending on the definitions of dementia, methodologies and data sources and types of costs they use. A common approach is needed to avoid confusion and increase public and stakeholder confidence in the estimates.

Since 1994, five major studies have yielded…

The World Alzheimer Report 2016 looks at ways of improving the coverage, as well as the quality, of healthcare for people living with dementia, and the costs associated.

World Alzheimer Report 2016 - Improving healthcare for people living with dementia: Coverage, quality and costs now and in the future

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