Funded Grants

This project focuses on accelerating awareness about the importance of the issue of driving cessation by promoting the uptake of the Driving and Dementia Roadmap (DDR).

The project addresses a grand challenge in ALS, the integration of a multi-targeted and personalized approach to patients with a rational strategy focusing on a unifying pivotal mechanism of the disease.

A pathologic feature in both sporadic and familial ALS patients is the presence of large neuronal inclusions enriched with misfolded proteins, including SOD1, TDP43 and FUS that are frequently modified with the small protein ubiquitin (Ub)

Personal support workers provide the most formal care to people living with dementia.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by the loss of upper and lower motor neurons (MNs).

One of the neuron’s most impressive morphological features is their long axonal projections, which are the basis of the complex, precise, and fast-firing neuronal network.

This grant builds on two related projects: the Dementia-Inclusive Choices for Exercise (DICE) project (funded by the Alzheimer Society Research Program); and the Dementia Resources for Eating, Activity, and Meaningful inclusion (DREAM) project.

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease in which the motor neurons degenerate, leading to symptoms of muscle weakness and progressive paralysis, resulting in the death of patients from respiratory failure.

Develop and disseminate a training program for rehabilitation providers working with long-term care residents with dementia.

RATIONALE: There are no effective disease modifying therapies for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).