Mar 20 2019
(Français) When her elderly mother needed to transition to a higher level of care, Donna Thomson reached out to Huddol members for advice on housing and care options in Montreal. After co-caregiving for his aging parents, Rick Lauber joined Huddol to share what he had learned with other caregivers. Huddol is the country’s first cross-disease,
Mar 18 2019
(Français) The importance of objects in the aging process is the focus of an extraordinary series of short films that have been co-created by an intergenerational team that includes older adults and caregivers, with the support of AGE-WELL. Dr. Megan Strickfaden, a design anthropologist at the University of Alberta and project lead, says the illustrated
Mar 11 2019
(Français) Patricia Laurin says her 92-year-old mother Shirrill Crawford has been “totally lost” for several years due to Alzheimer’s disease. “She doesn’t know me. Her memory is really compromised.” Yet the day ABBY—a wall-mounted personalized activity technology—was installed at Crawford’s Midland, Ontario long-term care home, she became “totally engaged for 90 minutes. It blew me
Feb 27 2019
(Français) CIHR and AGE-WELL fund international research projects to benefit aging baby boomers As more Canadian baby boomers enter their senior years (65 and older), Canada’s hospitals are experiencing a corresponding increase in requests for health services. In an effort to reduce this growing pressure on our health care system, CIHR and AGE-WELL have partnered to support
Feb 15 2019
(Français) It’s not every day that ground-breaking academic research heads so swiftly out of the lab and into the real world. That’s the story of a speech-analyzer technology developed by WinterLight Labs Inc. that detects cognitive impairment in its early stages, leading to quicker and more accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and other conditions. “Our