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COVID-19 updates
AGE-WELL is closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation, and is taking steps to support our grant recipients, trainees, partners, committee members, employees—and the wider community. AGE-WELL Network Management Office staff are now working remotely. We encourage you to contact us by email.
AGE-WELL is canceling or postponing non-essential events and travel through April (more detail to come).
AGE-WELL has received numerous questions about how the COVID-19 pandemic will affect various programs and operations. Specifically, we have been asked whether communications will be issued about our position on:
AGE-WELL follows the rules and policies of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) with regard to financial administration and will aim to share updates with our research community as soon as possible that align with Tri-agency measures. We anticipate that we will be in a position to confirm initial extension and postponement timelines by end of week.
Should you have any urgent questions or concerns, please contact info@agewell-nce.ca.
Tri-agency message on COVID-19 (March 16)
May 02 2018
(Français) National competition launched to identify innovative ideas to support healthy aging OTTAWA, May 3, 2018 – Canadians are being invited to take part in a national competition that will identify great new ideas to support healthy aging. The AGE-WELL National Impact Challenge is...
Apr 27 2016
(Français) He did not know it at the time, but the boyhood experience of helping his grandmother navigate the icy sidewalks of Winnipeg was a motivator for Steve Robinovitch’s research as an adult. “More and more I could see the physical and psychological effects...
Mar 30 2016
(Français) When Dr. Rosalie Wang sees people facing the challenges of aging and disability, there is one thing that she wants for all: equitable access to devices and services that can help. In her days as an occupational therapist, Dr. Wang met many older...
Feb 16 2016
It was only a brief message in an AGE-WELL internal email that led to an extraordinary experience for Alexander Moreno. Luckily he opened the email rather than delete it. It was an opportunity for interested researchers to travel to Chile to attend the Third...
Feb 03 2016
(Français) Elder care was part of Carrie Bourassa’s childhood growing up in Regina. Her great grandmother lived with the family until her death. Bourassa was raised by her Mushum (grandfather in Anishnabe). But dementia was never part of the conversation. In adulthood, now a...
Jan 22 2016
(Français) Earlier this month Sin City turned into the geek capital of the world. An estimated 170-thousand people descended on Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, now universally known simply as CES. It is the showcase for gadgets that are new, innovative and...
Jan 18 2016
(Français) The irony is inescapable: a research project on technology that demands a gruelling form of human labour. For as much as 50 hours a week over a period of several months, a team at the University of Regina has been staring at video...
Dec 30 2015
AGE-WELL took years of planning, followed by months of frantic activity to launch. But the scientific directors could point to a single October day in Calgary as the most memorable and satisfying. It was the first conference and Annual General Meeting for the new...
Nov 24 2015
(version française) Jim Mann was once a world traveller. But the most difficult journey of his life began in a mundane location in 2007. While walking through a small airport, he suddenly realized he had no idea of where he was or what to...
Nov 18 2015
It was a form of speed dating with a social purpose. 300 people jammed a large, airy room with a view of the lake at George Brown College’s Waterfront Campus. Brilliant researchers, bleary-eyed from long hours of intellectual labour, gathered around laptops, staring intently...
Nov 06 2015
Pervasive Health Conference is a premier international forum with specific focus on technologies and human factors related to the use of ubiquitous computing in healthcare and for wellbeing. The overall goal of the Pervasive Health Conference is to take a multidisciplinary approach to Pervasive...
Oct 08 2015
Sameer Dhar paced and pitched with the timeless ardour of a young man passionate about a good idea. “We’re a group of 20 year old guys who are willing to do whatever it takes to understand our user,” he told an audience in the...
Aug 18 2015
You may not feel the ground shifting beneath your feet, but Canada faces an unstoppable tectonic shift in our demographics. Statistics Canada projects that by the year 2030 almost one in four of us will be 65 years of age and older. We will...
Aug 05 2015
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (PRWEB) AUGUST 04, 2015 Aging2.0, the global innovation platform for aging and senior care, today announced its new#30in30in30 initiative. This globally distributed program of events, in partnership with Google for Entrepreneurs, is designed to discover, showcase and support aging-focused entrepreneurs around...
Jul 28 2015
BACKGROUND On May 20, 2014 a group of family/friend caregivers (herein called care partners), care providers, educators, administrators, policy makers, and other professionals from the community, social service, and private sectors participated in a one day, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR, Grant No....
Apr 15 2015
REGINA, April 14, 2015 /CNW/ – Today, the Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Health, and Member of Parliament for Regina-Lumsden- Lake Centre, Tom Lukiwski, were pleased to host a roundtable on healthy aging. The roundtable was attended by a variety of seniors- and health-related...
Mar 27 2015
Alex Mihailidis, Scientific Director of Age-Well, a government-financed organization dedicated to developing a better quality of life for Zoomers through technology, explains how his group will design and manufacture technology-based tools to help us as we age. Listen at: http://www.goldhawk.com/2015/03/24/alex-mihailidis
Mar 16 2015
A team of Toronto-based researchers have their way, older adults and people with disabilities – including dementia patients – will one day have the help of robots. The high-tech, low-cost helpers are currently being tested at the HomeLab, a physical mock-up of a furnished...
Feb 27 2015
Victoria, BC- February 23, 2014 – Innovative practices and services are alive and well at Retirement Concepts. On Monday night, Dr. Azim Jamal and Joe Moosa, owners of Retirement Concepts, received the BC Care Providers Innovation of the Year award from BC Health Minister...
Feb 25 2015
A one-day forum held Feb. 5 in Vancouver brought together more than 130 participants – representing research, health care, industry, government, and lived experience – to start a dialogue about digital health needs and opportunities in BC and the Yukon. Convened by MSFHR in...
Feb 17 2015
From: http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/48967.html Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) announce the launch of a Joint Canada-Israel Health Research Program. This program will provide funding for Canadian and Israeli researchers to assemble world-class...
Jan 21 2015
CTV News is covering aging well and GPS technology. Researchers in Alberta are trying to determine whether GPS technology can help people with early stage dementia stay safe and live independently longer. The Locator Device Project is a six-month trial being conducted out of...
Jan 15 2015
Did you know that women represent 72 per cent of Canadians living with Alzheimer’s disease? They could be your mothers, wives, sisters, grandmothers or friends – even you. The Alzheimer Society has launched a nationwide campaign called The 72% to inform women in their...
Nov 19 2014
Toronto Rehab’s Annual Research Day features a wealth of innovative rehabilitation research. It’s an opportunity for all members of our research community to come together to present their research to colleagues, decision-makers and the public. It is an action-packed day that spotlights extraordinary research...
Oct 28 2014
From the Vancouver Sun: “As the population ages, researchers are increasingly looking at ways to help older people maintain their independence. And what better place to conduct that research than a retirement home?” At the Innovation Centre for Healthy Aging, researchers and scientists have...
Sep 12 2014
MONTREAL, Sept. 10, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ – The Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Health, today announced the launch of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA), a national initiative aimed at tackling the growing onset of dementia and related illnesses and improving the lives of...
Jul 07 2014
Dr. Sixsmith has been elected as President of the International Society of Gerontechnology (ISG). The ISG encourages and promotes technological innovations in products and services that address older peoples’ ambitions and needs on the basis of scientific knowledge about ageing processes including cultural and...
Jul 07 2014
Age-Well Scientific Director Dr. Sixsmith has been named Co-Leader of the Independent Living Tech Committee for Innovation Boulevard. Surrey’s Innovation Boulevard is a growing network of health institutions, universities, companies and talented people co-located within one square mile in Surrey’s City Centre between Simon...
Jan 14 2014
When you design assistive technologies to help adults with cognitive difficulties live more independently, you have to know what users need. That sounds simple but we really know so little about this. What social-demographic factors affect their decisions about how to use the technology...
Jan 14 2014
Andrew Sixsmith, Director of SFU’s Gerontology Research Centre, is one of a trio of researchers developing intelligent, interactive sensors for seniors’ homes to encourage independent living. The sensors will remind seniors to exercise, take medication, turn off the stove, and do other essential activities....
Jan 14 2014
As researchers, we understand that your experience providing care may be quite different from those of spouses, other family members, and paid health care workers. To understand your experience better, we are seeking adult daughters and adult sons to participate in a half-day research...
Jan 13 2014
When SFU Associate Gerontology Professor Norman O’Rourke and his students searched the bipolar disorder (BD) literature, they found only two references to older adults with BD. “So we know very little about caring for older adults with bipolar disorder,” says O’Rourke, who heads a...
Jan 13 2014
The 11th Annual Ellen M. Gee Memorial “Who Cares? Aging Boomers and Caregiving Policy in Canada” was presented by Janice Keefe, Ph.D. Dr. Keefe is a full Professor, Department of Family Studies and Gerontology, Mount Saint Vincent University and holds appointments at Dalhousie University’s...
Nov 22 2013
Technology may soon be helping seniors to live longer, healthier lives. A trio of researchers, including Simon Fraser University’s Andrew Sixsmith, is working to develop intelligent, interactive sensors to be embedded in seniors’ homes and used to support independent living. The sensors will do...
Nov 13 2013
The Gerontology Research Centre (GRC) was established in 1982 with the help of grants from Imperial Oil, the Real Estate Foundation of BC, Shoppers Drug Mart, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The Centre publishes the Fact Book on Aging...
Oct 23 2013
On October 23, 2013, Dr. Sharon Koehn presented preliminary findings from her pilot study, “Understanding Quality of Life in Assisted Living: Influence of the Built and Organizational Environment.” Please view the slides on our website. CHÉOS Work in Progress seminars take place every two...