Oct 12 2016
(Français) Within a few years, older Canadians could have their own affordable, mobile, intelligent robots specifically designed to help them stay healthy, independent and living at home. Dr. Goldie Nejat, director of the Institute for Robotics and Mechatronics at the University of Toronto, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Robots for Society, and Dr.
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
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
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
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