About 500,000 Canadians are living with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. Unless the swelling tide of dementia turns, this number is expected to soar to 1.1 million within 25 years. To date, there is no definitive way for health
Dr. Montero Odasso was interviewed on November 10th by NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation (the Japanese PBS station) from New York. This will air in Japan early in 2015, on a health care program called CHOICE, which will focus on Dr.
The Division of Geriatric Medicine, the Gait and Brain Laboratory at Parkwood Hospital and the Lawson Health Research Institute, are proud to announce their participation in “The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame: Discovery Days”. Elyse Gordon, a Master’s student with
Congratulations to Elyse Gordon who has been awarded the Faculty of Kinesiology Travel Award 2014 and the competitive CIHR Travel Award to present her thesis work entitled ‘Deficits in specific cognitive domains are related to gait performance”, at the 34th
The Gait and Brain Lab in conjunction with the Division of Geriatric Medicine and the Western Visiting Scholar Program is proud to announce the upcoming “Gait and Brain Week” at Western from October 21 to October 27. There are several
Congratulations to Dr. Susan Hunter (Muir) for graduating from her post doctoral position in the lab! Dr. Hunter will continue on as a member of the Team as well as an Assistant Professor in the school of Physical Therapy at
Dr. Montero Odasso presented at the presidential symposium during the World Congress in Geriatrics and Gerontology in Seoul, Korea. Lectures “UNDERSTANDING FALLS AND FRACTURES AS A LONG TERM CONDITION. THE ROLE OF GAIT VELOCITY AS AN EARLY SIGN OF DISABILITY”
Dr Manuel Montero Odasso and Dr Olivier Beauchet at the AAIC 2013 in Boston this July. The Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) is the world’s leading forum on dementia research. From July 13-18, scientists from around the globe came together