April is #Parkinson AwarenessMonth

Spent day Parkinson Canada w/ #researchers #trainees #PeopleLivingWithParkinsons to help increase #PatientEngagement in #Research

Benjamin Stecher
Dr. Soania Mathur, MD
Dr. Kaylena Ehgoetz Martens
Dr. Jude Bek
Karen Lee

#Parkinson #Parkinson s

Every first Tuesday of April is #NationalCaregiverDay here in Canada 🇨🇦

Sharing here just a few of the caregiver champions, storytellers, and advocates from an event back in February with Ontario Caregiver Organization (OCO)

Amy Coupal

To celebrate National Caregiver Day, IA would like to highlight some amazing members of CIHR-IA’s Older Adult Advisory Council who are or have been caregivers.

Many thanks to all the caregivers providing support to those that need it most.

Near Whitby, Ontario (region of Durham)

Join us Thursday April 4 to Celebrate CAREGIVERS
(even though National Caregiver Day🇨🇦 is officially April 2, we’ll celebrate April 4) Ontario Shores

Looking forward to being a
panelist at the Caregiver Townhall

ontarioshores.ca/national-careg…

This was an excellent webinar all of your sharing and facilitation was impressive and inspiring- thank you for holding PxP - Trinity (she/her) RB33 Ron Beleno

Looking forward to the webinar this week with PxP and CIHR-IMHA Community Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis

Demystifying the research process from patient partner perspectives

#PatientPartner #PatientEngagement

🤩Over 150 people are already registered. Have you?

The webinar is free, fully virtual, and live translated captions will be available in 30+ languages. The recording will also be available to watch back after the event.

Sign up here: bit.ly/pxp-2024-webin…

#PatientEngagement

An update on our Unpaid Caregiver Study. Thanks to those of you who have helped us achieve 65% of our target sample. Would appreciate any additional help to share through your channels.

👏 to Ontario Caregiver Organization (OCO) for an amazing all day event with partners across Ontario to improve the lives of #caregivers . RB33 Ron Beleno Christa Haanstra Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence also TerrenceHo.eth is a super star! 🌟 brought the house down! Incredible impactful storyteller.

This is Sarah and Gemma, Wendy’s daughters. Our mum died peacefully early this morning. She wrote a blog post before she died so you can read about it from her perspective.
Sarah and Gemma

whichmeamitoday.wordpress.com/2024/02/22/my-…

I'll be w/ seasoned patient partners at this webinar

Demystifying the research process from patient partner perspectives
🔬👩🏻‍🔬❓🤔
March 21, 2024

Hosted by PxP (For Patients, By Patients)
CIHR-IMHA Community (Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis)

zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Our Knowledge Mobilization team recently participated in a 'Building capacity for involving older adults, caregivers and partners in research' workshop - learn more about the event and our participants! diabetesaction.ca/building-capac…

A few weeks ago caregivers Emily Chiara Ty Redublo & myself participated in a wonderful #IntergenerationalClass

University of Toronto students
+ #olderadult residents Christie Gardens

👏 Raza M. Mirza & team
Life Course & Aging

Watch 98-year George Linton sing on last day of class last week

Working together again w/ this 🇨🇦 team on a Saturday w/ Scientists, Researchers, First Responders (Police, EMS, Fire), Search and Rescue, Alzheimer Societies across Canada, Lived Experience, MedicAlert Canada & Others

Moving the work forward to keep People with #Dementia safer🚶‍♀️

DEMENTIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION FUNDERS ALLIANCE 🇨🇦

A Voice For Healthy Brain Aging

LAUNCH EVENT
November 2

CIHR Institute of Aging
CIHR
Jane Rylett

Mark Holland
Minister of Health

News Release:
canada.ca/en/institutes-…

cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/53676.html

Honoured to be the Day 1 Emcee at the upcoming first ever Canadian Caregiving Summit

Ottawa & Virtually
November 6-8

Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence
Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence

canadiancaregivingsummit.ca

#CCCESummit2023 #CdnCaregiving

Fellow emcees:
Katrina Prescott
Dr. Brian Goldman

Day 1 dinner of Canadian Association on Gerontology CdnAssocGero and #breakingbread over dim sum 🥟
Dr. Lillian Hung 🇨🇦 Lily Ren Winnie Sun Charlene Chu RN PhD
Nurses, PhD students, Physiotherapist 😌

Had a lovely evening Monday as the dinner guest w/ Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging during #TiLTC2023 Recognition Gala
🥰
Alison Kernoghan
Tina Mah
Tammy Cumming
Michelle Stillman
Sophiya Benjamin
Noel Gruber
Catherine Tong
Michelle Fleming (she/her)
CatEdwards
Dr. Stacey D. Guy
raquel__meyer

Ontario Centres for Long-Term Care 🥰

It was also a pleasure to finally meet up Michelle Fleming (Michelle Fleming (she/her)) and to continue cheering each other on with the passionate work we both do. This won’t be the last time. One day we will even do one of my fave activities of either #breakingbread or a #walkandtalk 😁