Monitoring system for seniors puts privacy first
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by Meghan Wels
1w ago
Of course your mother wants to stay in her own home. She’s lived there for 60 years, from when you and your siblings were kids. While alone now since your dad passed away and everyone’s moved out, she has family and friends over, and loves the place. But you still worry. You know that older adults are more likely to fall. And you get the feeling your mother’s been getting more forgetful lately. Dr. Jie Liang and his startup company, AltumView, had you – and the global aging population – in mind when they decided to use their expertise in engineering to create technology that can assist older a ..read more
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Building a healthier future
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by Meghan Wels
1w ago
The EPIC-AT Health Research Training Platform congratulates its second cohort of Fellows. Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, EPIC-AT is powered by AGE-WELL and hosted at the University of Toronto. The platform is led by researchers from 11 universities and research institutes across 6 provinces and supported by 42 collaborating organizations across the country. Keely Barnes Twenty-three master’s and doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows and early career researchers from 16 institutions across Canada have been awarded one-year Fellowships. These Fellowships are valued at ..read more
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Just the right height: device gives older adults greater independence
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by Meghan Wels
1w ago
Tracey McGillivray, Co-founder, Axtion Independence Mobility Inc. In 2019, Tracey McGillivray, a retired tech executive, was looking for a mobility device to help her parents remain independent. But every product she found was too heavy or too limited in function—walkers, mostly, some with attached, cumbersome seats fixed in place and lifts that required assembly and weighed between 50 and 85 pounds. With an idea of what she wanted, she called Liam Maaskant, then a mechanical engineering student at her alma mater, Acadia University, to ask if he would help her invent it. Liam Maaskant, Co-f ..read more
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Advocating for equitable access to health care for marginalized people
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by Meghan Wels
1M ago
Kelly Davison It’s difficult to define narrowly the work Kelly Davison does to advocate for the health of local communities and Indigenous people, including Métis like himself. It’s multi-faceted and spreads across multiple organizations, but health equity is always at the core. He is a registered nurse working with the Ministry of Health in B.C., Insite in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and Lion’s Gate Hospital. He is also a research coordinator for Dr. Lisa Bourque Bearskin, the B.C. Chair of Indigenous Health Nursing Research, and a co-chair of the Sex-Gender Working Group with Canada Heal ..read more
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App alerts people who are deaf or hard of hearing to critical sounds
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by Meghan Wels
2M ago
Eyra Abraham, CEO, Lisnen Eyra Abraham has been hard of hearing since she was three years old and regularly wears hearing aids except at certain times, like sleeping. In the early 2010s, Abraham lived in a condo building where she had the unfortunate experience of sleeping through a late-night fire drill. “It made me realize my vulnerability in situations I am not wearing my hearing aids, but require me to hear, and I was certain there had to be a solution,” says Abraham, Founder of Lisnen. “I went looking for a listening device that would address my problem – I needed a device that moved wi ..read more
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2023 AGE-WELL Honorary Fellow Awards: Congrats to Drs. Rafik Goubran, Lili Liu and Jim Mann
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by Meghan Wels
4M ago
Warmest congratulations to Drs. Rafik Goubran, Lili Liu and Jim Mann on receiving 2023 AGE-WELL Honorary Fellow Awards. The award recognizes members who have made long-term and substantial contributions to research and innovation in the AgeTech sector, as well as a significant contribution to AGE-WELL. AGE-WELL is profoundly grateful to our new Honorary Fellows for their service and exemplary work: Rafik Goubran (Ottawa) Dr. Rafik Goubran is vice-president (research and international) and Chancellor’s Professor at Carleton University. An AGE-WELL researcher from the very start, he is a foundi ..read more
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AGE-WELL releases its 2022-2023 annual report
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by Meghan Wels
4M ago
AGE-WELL is seizing the opportunity that technology offers to benefit older adults and caregivers. The latest AGE-WELL annual report, Focus on Healthy Aging, highlights recent activities and accomplishments from across the network. Find out how AGE-WELL is moving the dial when it comes to supporting healthy aging, while driving Canada’s growing AgeTech sector. The report highlights the impact of transdisciplinary research, training, partnerships, commercialization and knowledge mobilization. We invite you to read about: How AgeTech can empower older Canadians to lead healthy, independent and ..read more
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Dr. Shital Desai: Building blocks of knowledge in human-centred design
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by Meghan Wels
4M ago
Dr. Shital Desai may have spent much of her academic life studying machines and robots, but she never forgets about the people who use them. In her role as an Assistant Professor, Interaction Design at the School of Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) and York Research Chair in Accessible Interaction Design at York University, her work depends on her ability to understand the needs of others. Her goal is to keep the human component of technology front and centre. York University design professor Dr. Shital Desai is an alumna of AGE-WELL’s EPIC training program Her journey to To ..read more
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 AGE-WELL Emerging Entrepreneur Award
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by Meghan Wels
4M ago
AGE-WELL is thrilled to congratulate the 2023 recipients of the AGE-WELL Emerging Entrepreneur Award. This year’s award winners, Bronwyn Bridges, Co-Founder and CEO of PragmaClin, and Lianna Genovese, Founder and CEO of ImaginAble Solutions, were announced on October 25 at the AGE-WELL Annual Conference during AgeTech Innovation Week. The AGE-WELL Emerging Entrepreneur Award is designed to give new entrepreneurs the financial resources, mentorship and training they need to focus on making their ideas viable and rapidly deployable in service to older adults and caregivers. The award helps suppo ..read more
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EnvisAGE looking to support Canadian technology solutions for seniors
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by Meghan Wels
5M ago
Sabrina Boutin, Principal Vice President, MEDTEQ+ and Executive Director, envisAGE, launches the 1st envisAGE Call for Innovations supporting the commercialization of technologies that enhance quality of life for older Canadians. On Tuesday, October 24, 2023, MEDTEQ+ and AGE-WELL launched the envisAGE 1st Call for Innovations to support the commercialization of technologies to help Canadian seniors maintain a better quality of life, longer, while propelling companies in the AgeTech sector, at the first envisAGE Annual Forum as part of AgeTech Innovation Week in Toronto. Through this program ..read more
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