Mélanie Levasseur

Fostering Social Participation and Connections: Lessons for Reaching and Intervening with Older Adults at Risk for Isolation

Mélanie Levasseur is an occupational therapist and full professor at the School of Rehabilitation of the Université de Sherbrooke. She is also a researcher and director of the Research Lab Connect at the Research Centre on Aging, CIUSSS de l’Estrie-CHUS. She holds a doctorate in clinical sciences from the Université de Sherbrooke and was also a postdoctoral researcher in health promotion at the Institut de recherche en santé publique de l’Université de Montréal (IRSPUM). Professor Levasseur is a Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec Senior Researcher (#298996; 2021-2025). Funded notably by a Foundation Grant from the CIHR (#148466; 2016-24), her research program targets the development and evaluation of a continuum of innovative interventions to promote the social participation of older adults, including the personalised citizen assistance for social participation (APIC), the Lifestyle Redesign (programme Remodeler sa vie) and inclusive environments. Her works also focuses on actions to break ageism and on social robotics.

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