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AGE-WELL releases its second annual report

Sep 29 2016

(Français) It’s been a year of tremendous growth and important firsts for AGE-WELL. The 2015-2016 AGE-WELL Annual Report showcases key accomplishments and activities from the last year. It spotlights a sampling of AGE-WELL research projects, and profiles some of our amazing trainees, industry partners and network leaders. Some of the stories you will find in

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AGE-WELL announces grants to support new tool that simplifies health information, and intergenerational digital storytelling in First Nations community

Sep 20 2016

Français AGE-WELL is funding two exciting new projects as part of its Strategic Investment Program (SIP), which provides rapid and responsive funding for knowledge mobilization activities and commercialization. The development of a novel tool that can simplify digital health information—instantly transforming online text to a person’s reading level—is one of the newly-funded projects. “Imagine a

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Postdoctoral opportunities in Alzheimer’s research

Sep 20 2016

AGE-WELL and the Alzheimer Society of Canada are teaming up to support emerging researchers through a funding opportunity for postdoctoral fellows. The funding partners, AGE-WELL and the Alzheimer Society Research Program, will co-fund up to two postdoctoral fellows over two years. The candidate’s supervisor must be working within an existing AGE-WELL Workpackage or Crosscutting activity

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Behind the scenes at the AGE-WELL Summer Institute 2016: devising real-world solutions

Sep 14 2016

(Français) For Edwin Fong, AGE-WELL’s inaugural Summer Institute was one of the most exhilarating, profound and exhausting learning experiences of his life. And he would do it again in a heartbeat. “It was the most intensive and inspiring training that I have ever done,” says Fong, an AGE-WELL trainee and a physiotherapist at Toronto Rehabilitation

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