We host monthly events online to promote community building, knowledge exchange, and lifelong learning with older adults and graduate trainees.
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Please join us on April 21st as we tune in to Dr. Mina Mirjalili's talk: Personalizing Brain Stimulation to Improve Cognition in Older Adults with High Risk of Developing Dementia 🧠✨
🗓 Tuesday April 21 @ 12PM ET
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📢 📢 Important update! This webinar has been moved to 1pm!
📢 Please join us on March 17th as we welcome Dr. Jonathan Thacker back to discuss how short bouts of exercise can improve cognitive health!
🗓 Tuesday March 17 @ 12PM ET
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📢 Please join us on March 17th as we welcome Dr. Jonathan Thacker back to discuss how short bouts of exercise can improve cognitive health!
🗓 Tuesday March 17 @ 12PM ET
Register here for free:
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Please join us next week as we tune into an insightful talk on the impact of exercise on mental health! 🏋️🏃
🗓 Tuesday Feb 17 @ 12PM ET
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Join us for an engaging discussion about the promise & pitfalls of #GLP-1-based therapies, like #Ozempic, for smoking cessation. We’ll discuss potential therapeutic benefits, side effects + safety considerations related to GLP-1-based therapies.
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📢 Please join us next week as we tune into an insightful talk from Dr. Danielle D'Amico!
🗒️Your Brain on Stress: How Does Stress Get Under The Skin to Impact the Brain?
🗓 Tuesday Jan 20 @ 12PM ET
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Sociologist Dr. Mindy Fried shares how caring for her father shaped her work and inspired conversations on aging, caregiving, and community, revealing how personal experience can spark professional purpose and systemic change.
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A biomarker test developed by @UCLBrainScience can not only predict cognitive decline in Parkinson's but also distinguish it from similar disorders, paving the way for faster, more accurate diagnoses. Read more in #PorticoMagazine bit.ly/480F04e
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We are excited to share with you a webpage with frequently asked questions, and their answers, about new medications for Alzheimer's disease. We invite you to share this webpage with the people in your network.
ccna-ccnv.ca/new-medications…
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This Osteoporosis Awareness Month, we’re proud to celebrate a major milestone: 86 long-term care homes are now participating in the PREVENT Trial!
Homes are putting the PREVENT model into action- bringing evidence-based falls and fracture prevention, enhanced education and training, active care planning, and true interdisciplinary collaboration into everyday practice.
Together, we are transforming fracture prevention initiatives in long-term care and championing safer, more person-centred resident care.
Update! We had reschedule our upcoming webinar, please find the new date below:
🗓 Date: Wednesday, December 3rd
🕒Time: 12PM ET
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November is #FallPreventionMonthCA! DYK Canadians aged 65+ are projected to make up between 21.9% and 32.3% of the population by 2073? Making #FallPrevention part of the routine matters ➡️ parachute.ca/en/injury-topic… #MoveImproveRemove #TurnSafetyOn
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Funding Alert for Non-Profits in Aging! 📢
The @CIHR_IA has launched the 2025–26 Voluntary Sector Knowledge Mobilization Support Grant, recognizing the vital role non-profits play in promoting health and well-being among older adults and highlights their contributions to driving meaningful progress in healthy aging across the country.
⏰ Deadline: Dec 22, 2025
➡️ Apply & learn more: cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/36397.html
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Being physically active may not prevent us from getting the flu, but it can strengthen our immune system and help to decrease symptoms and quicken our recovery times.
Learn more: activeagingcanada.ca/newslet…
#ActiveAging #SeniorsInCanada
🚨 New webinar alert! 🚨
Please join us next week as we tune in to Dr. Daniela Napoli as she presents, Considering AI in Remote Healthcare Technology for Older Adults
🗓 Date: Wednesday, November 12th
🕒Time: 12PM ET
Register here for free:👇
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📢 STUDY ALERT 📢
We are currently recruiting participants for a focus group in Kingston on Digital Literacy.
If you have the time, please SHARE with anyone you think may be interested in joining this focus group!
#FocusGroup #KingstonOntario #DigitalLiteracy #OlderAdults
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Thank you to Dr. Ogochukwu Onyeso @KKOnyeso for sharing his research in the most recent #CLSAWebinar.
🎥 For the webinar recording & slide deck: ow.ly/myPU50Xi1Fm
For a schedule & registration for upcoming webinars: ow.ly/resb50Xi1Cp
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AI is revolutionizing brain health – and you're invited to see how. 🧠
There’s still time to register for AI in Brain Health Advances, OBI’s next Public Talk happening next Monday, November 3.
📍In-person tickets are sold out, but you can still join us virtually to be part of this dynamic discussion.
Partner booths open at 5 PM | Talk begins at 6 PM | Includes live audience Q&A
🔗 RSVP to attend online: eventbrite.ca/e/ai-in-brain-…
#BrainHealth #AI #Neuroscience #Innovation
ALT OBI Public Talk: AI in Brain Health Advances
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Missed our latest Advances in Dementia Research Webinar? The recording is now available! Learn how deep brain stimulation is being tested to improve memory and sleep in Alzheimer’s disease—including a @UHN study currently recruiting participants. youtu.be/Bd7Vr_qKl9c?si=qNlR…
🚨 New webinar alert! 🚨
Please join us next week as we tune in to Dr. Alana Brown as she presents, Sex and Gender in Brain Aging: Toward More Inclusive Brain Health Research
🗓 Date: Thursday, October 30th
🕒Time: 12PM ET
Register here for free:👇
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