GRC FREE PUBLIC LECTURES & SPONSORED EVENTS
(Also see: Ellen M. Gee Memorial Lecture Series and the Friesen Conference Series)
2011
September 28, 2011: SUICIDE IN OLDER AGE: WHY ARE MEN MORE VULNERABLE? Presented by Dr. Mark S. Kaplan, Professor, Community Health, Portland State University. - PRESENTATION
September 16, 2011: TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS TO ASSIST PERSONS WITH DEMENTIA Presented by Dr. Alex Mihailidis, Barbara G. Stymiest Research Chair in Rehabilitation Technology and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto.
June 21, 2011: SPOTLIGHT ON FINANCIAL ABUSE: A World Elder Abuse Awareness Day Event. Sponsored event.
June 15, 2011: GRANNY POWER: CHALLENGING STEREOTYPES AND FOSTERING INTERGENERATIONAL EMPOWERMENT. Presented by Peggy Edwards (Health Promotion Consultant).
May 25, 2011: CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH: ACTING TO REDUCE RISKS AND VULNERABILITIES. Presented by Carlos Corvalán, Senior Advisor, Risk Assessment and Global Environmental Change, Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO).
February 4, 2011: CHINESE-CANADIAN PATHWAYS TO A DIAGNOSIS OF DEMENTIA IN METRO VANCOUVER: EXPLORING INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN CULTURE, SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH, AND SYSTEM BARRIERS. Presented by Sharon Koehn, PhD, Research Associate, Centre for Healthy Aging at Providence.
2010
November 17, 2010: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTAL COMPONENT OF DEMENTIA CARE MAPPING (DCM) TOOL. Presented by Habib Chaudhury, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Gerontology, Simon Fraser University.
October 15, 2010: THE ELDER ABUSE SUSPICION INDEX (EASI): DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION, KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION AND OUTCOMES. Presented by Mark Yaffe, MDCM MCISc, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, McGill University.
2009
March 18, 2009: AGING IN PLACE: ISSUES IN GEROTECHNOLOGY AND CAREGIVING. Presented by Atiya Mahmood, PhD, (Adjunct Professor, Department of Gerontology).
March 2, 2009: TECHNOLOGY AND AGING: KNOWLEDGE FROM RESEARCH AND EXPERIENCE FROM COMMUNITY. Presented by Andrew Sixsmith, PhD, (Director, GRC).
February 24, 2009: WORKING TOWARDS THE PREVENTATIVE AGENDA WITH OLDER PEOPLE: FROM POLICY TO PRACTICE AND BACK AGAIN. Presented by Judith Sixsmith, PhD, (Visiting Scholar).
2008
October 21, 2008: SENIORS WELL AWARE PROGRAM (SWAP) - SWAP’S PROJECT SLICE: SENIORS LEADING INTERACTIVE COMMUNITY EDUCATION. Presented by the SFU Gerontology Student Union.
April 24, 2008: THE SOPRANO PROJECT: USING NEW TECHNOLOGY TO HELP OLDER PEOPLE LIVE INDEPENDENTLY. Presented by Andrew Sixsmith, PhD, (Director, GRC).
February 13, 2008: PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO INSTITUTIONAL CARE OF THE ELDERLY IN JAPAN. Presented by Takehiko Tanabe, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology and Communication, School of Humanities, Hokusei Gakuen University, Hokkaido, Japan.
2007
November 6, 2007: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF AGING: THE CONFLUENCE OF FEMINISM AND CRITICAL GERONTOLOGY. Presented by Margaret (Peg) Cruikshank, PhD, LGBT Studies, University of Maine; affiliate scholar, Center on Aging, University of Maine.
March 8, 2007: POSITIVE EMOTION, AGING AND HEALTH. Presented by Glenn V. Ostir, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Sealy Center on Aging, University of Texas Medical Branch.
March 1, 2007: RESEARCHING TECHNOLOGY AND AGEING. Presented by Andrew Sixsmith, PhD, Lecturer, Social Gerontology, Primary Care, University of Liverpool.
2005
November 23, 2005: THE SEARCH FOR CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN UNDERSTANDING FAMILY CAREGIVER DISTRESS. Presented by Bob Knight, PhD, Merle H. Bensinger Professor of Gerontology, Andrus Gerontology Centre and Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training, Department of Psychology, University of Southern California.
November, 16, 2005: POPULATION HEALTH IN A CONTEXT OF GLOBAL AGING AND CONSTANT MIGRATION. Presented by Mary Haan, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan.
November 10, 2005: THE ROLE OF FRIENDSHIP IN LATER LIFE. Presented by Brian de Vries, PhD, Professor and Former Director of the Gerontology Program at San Francisco State University.
September 14, 2005: REFLECTIONS ON THE END-OF-LIFE CARE FOR ELDERLY WITH DEGENERATIVE DISEASES. Presented by Claudia Burla, MD, Invited Lecturer in the graduate program (continuing education) in Geriatrics at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazilian National School of Public Health Fiocruz, and Candido Mendes University.
August 16, 2005: DESIGN IN DEMENTIA CARE / ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES IN EUROPE. Presented by Damian Utton, Pozzoni Design Group, UK.
July 26, 2005: CHARACTERISTICS, ANTECEDENTS, AND SEQUELAE OF RESIDENTIAL CHANGE IN LATE LIFE. Presented by Loren D. Lovegreen, MA, Research Coordinator, Elderly Care Research Center, Dept. of Sociology and PhD Candidate, Aging and Medical Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
July 20, 2005: FAMILY CAREGIVING OR CAREGIVING ALONE: WHO HELPS THE HELPER? Presented by Joanie Sims-Gould, MSW, Interdisciplinary PhD Candidate, School of Social Work and Family Studies, UBC.
March 21, 2005 PREVENTION OF FALLS AMONG THE ELDERLY: RESPONDING TO THE CALL FOR ACTION. Presented by Elaine Gallagher, PhD, Professor, School of Nursing, University of Victoria.
2004
November 23, 2004 TOWARD A NEW PARADIGM OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN FOR THE AGED IN KOREA. Presented by Tae-Il Kim, PhD, Associate Professor, Architectural Design Cheju National University, South Korea.
October 20, 2004 BARRIERS TO ACCESS TO CONTINUING CARE FOR ETHNIC MINORITY SENIORS. Presented by Sharon Koehn, PhD, CHSRF/CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow.
September 22, 2004: A MODEL FOR EXPLAINING CAREGIVING OUTCOMES AMONG INFORMAL CAREGIVERS OF ELDERLY CANCER PATIENTS WHO DIED IN TWO DIFFERENT SETTING OF HEALTH SERVICES. Presented by Yaacov Bachner, MA, Doctoral candidate, Department of Sociology and Health, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
March 22, 2004: PROJECTING INFORMAL SUPPORT IN CANADA FROM 2001-2031 AND ITS EFFECT ON CHRONIC CONTINUING CARE SERVICES. Presented by Janice Keefe, PhD, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Aging and Caregiving Policy, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS & Yves Carrière, PhD, Senior Analyst, Demography Division, Statistics Canada and Adjunct Professor, Department of Gerontology, SFU.
March 8, 2004: TOWARD UNIVERSAL DESIGN EVALUATION. Presented by Wolfgang Preiser, PhD, Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture and Interior Design, University of Cincinnati.
March 4, 2004: AGING IN KOREA: POPULATION AGING AND PUBLIC POLICIES FOR OLDER PEOPLE. Presented by S. K. Lee, MSc, Senior Deputy Director International Cooperation Division, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Republic of Korea.
February 5, 2004: GROWING OLD-TAIWANESE STYLE. Presented by Tina Wu, PhD, Professor, Ming-Hsin University of Science & Technology.
2003
February 14, 2003: MEETING THE NEEDS OF OLDER NEW ZEALANDERS IN THEIR COMMUNITIES: LOCAL AND NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES. Presented by Sally Keeling, PhD, Professor, Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, New Zealand.
2002
May 3, 2002: DESIGNING FOR PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA: AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE. Presented by Kirsty Bennett, Aging Care Project Officer, Uniting Care, Victoria, Australia.
2001
March 2, 2001: THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH AND GROWING OLDER: MEANING OF SPACE AND PLACE. Presented by Eileen Fairhurst, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Department of Health Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University.
February 23, 2001: TOWARD PLACE-THERAPY: RE-MEMBERING PLACES FROM THE PAST. Presented by Habib Chaudhury, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia.
February 16, 2001: META-ANALYSIS: SELF-EFFICACY FOR EXERCISE IN OLDER ADULTS. Presented by Judy Kruger, PhD, Consultant and Research Assistant, Health Research Policy Centres, University of Illinois, Chicago.
February 9, 2001: EXERCISE MOTIVATION AMONG OLDER ADULTS: PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL-COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVES. Presented by Ryan Rhodes, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Physical Education, University of Alberta.
January 25, 2001: A HEALTH AND DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF NON-INSTITUTIONALIZED OLDER AMERICANS RESIDING IN ENVIRONMENTS WITH HOME MODIFICATIONS. Presented by Melissa Tabbarah, PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Agency for Health Care Research & Quality, School of Public Health, University of Southern California.
January 19, 2001: HOUSING AND WELL-BEING: LINKING THE RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENT WITH HUMAN HEALTH AND WELL-BEING. Presented by Nancy Wells, PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine.