Directory of funded grants

Social connection in long-term care home residents

Project Overview

This proposal aims to further the health and care of people living in long-term care (LTC) homes by improving the measurement of social connection. We will systematically appraise existing measures of social connection used in research in this population, including objective (e.g., social isolation) and subjective (e.g., loneliness) constructs. We…

Development of a caregiver reported and weighted dementia outcome

Project Overview

Caregivers of people living with dementia know the person the best and have direct experience of how their partner’s dementia is progressing. Their experiences are pivotal in judging the real-world benefits of treatment and making decisions to keep the person at home or consider different levels of care. To our…

TACKLing the challenges of PREsymptomatic sporadic Dementia – The TACKL-PRED Study

Project Overview

Dementia is becoming more prevalent with the aging of the baby boomer population and is imposing a major challenge to society, both from a financial and social perspective. Individuals suffering from dementia experience memory loss and decline in other mental abilities, which significantly impacts their quality of life. As a…

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2021 Dr. Hubert van Tol Travel Fellowship

Project Overview

Sylvie Lesuis is a postdoctoral fellow who is conducting research to decipher the key pathways that underlie stress-induced overgeneralization of memory at the behavioural, network dynamics and cellular level.  She used her travel fellowship to attend the European Brain and Behaviour Society conference in Lausanne, Switzerland on September 4th to 7th, 2021.