Professional Associates are clinicians or other professionals who work with older adults (e.g., practicing social workers, nurses, lawyers, older adult educators, health care administrators).
Research Interests: Older Adults, Pharmacy
Research Interests: Health psychology, aging, pain.
Research Interests: Geriatric mental health
Research Interests: Patient engagement, pain, dementia, knowledge translation
Clinical Interests: Improving assessment and management of pain in dementia especially for those in long-term care. Improving pain care services and access to self management programs and support for those with chronic pain.
Brachaniec has experience as a physiotherapist, chronic pain patient, and as a caregiver for her parents during their dementia journeys.
Research Interests: Pain assessment, seniors, dementia, falls
Research Interests: Aging, women’s health, osteoporosis,anxiety and stress disorders.
Clinical Interests: Cancer, diabetes and degenerative diseases
Research Interests: Pain assessment in seniors with severe dementia, ethics
Clinical Interests: CBT psychotherapy, post-traumatic stress disorder, adult neuropsychological assessment
Research Interests: Older Adults, Chronic Pain, Abnormal and Normal Aging, Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Chronic Pain, Assessment of Psychopathology
Research Interests: Health, older adults, aging and resiliency, impacts of isolation, mental health
Clinical and Research Interests: Neuropsychological assessment, rehabilitation and evidenced-based psychological treatment of mood, anxiety, and psychotic disorders.
Research Interests: Pain sensitivity in seniors with dementia, increased access to psychological services in rural areas of Canada
Clinical Interests: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, ACT
Research Interests: Health anxiety, anxiety, health psychology, assessment, normative data, norms for seniors, computerized assessment, Hypochondriasis, and Clinical Psychology.
Clinical Interests: Adult Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Adult Psychological Assessment, Adult Neuropsychological Assessment.
Research Interests: Role of nurse practitioners in long term care settings; Palliative/End-of-life care; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Research Interests: Pain and fall prevention
Research Interests: Illness Narratives, Comics & Aging, Narrative Nonfiction and Aging, Intergenerational Advocacy
Tonight at 6:30pm!
Sundance audience award-winning film, "Alive Inside", a moving and joyous cinematic exploration of the ability of music to stir and awaken memory in people with dementia.
The film will be followed by a Q & A with Dr. Jessica Strong, a clinical
Please see the event poster and parking map for more details!
We look forward to seeing you at tonight's event!
If they are unable to communicate, how do older adults with dementia let others know they are in pain?
That's a problem that @DrThomasHadjist has been solving with his students through the @UofRAgingCentre.
Learn more & watch the video to see their research in action. 📺⬇️
This Thursday, March 14 @ 6:30pm!
Join us for a public film screening of "Alive Inside", a joyous and moving Sundance audience award-winning documentary about the capacity of music to reawaken the souls of people experiencing dementia.
The film will be followed by a Q & A with
The @UofRegina has prepared this short video on our work on the PACSLAC-II, an important tool for assessing #pain in older adults with #dementia #SeePainMoreClearly #Alzheimers
Tonight at 6:30pm!
"Ageism Unmasked" with Dr. Tracey Gendron, of Virginia Commonwealth University, the 2023-24 CAH Distinguished Public Lecture speaker.
MAP University Theatre (Riddell Centre), Main U of R Campus.
Dr. Gendron will be available to sign copies of her book (for
This Thursday evening!
Join us this Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 6:30pm for our 2023-24 CAH Distinguished Public Lecture:
"Ageism Unmasked" with prominent developmental psychologist and aging researcher, Dr. Tracey Gendron (Virginia Commonwealth University).
MAP University