In the Media

OCTOBER 2021

• Canadians unprepared for dealing with dementia, new study suggest, The Star, an interview with Scientific Director, Dr Howard Chertkow

JANUARY 2021

• Strategies, tips, and tricks to keep your brain healthy, an interview with Natalie Phillips to promote CCNA’s Public Event on Global News Montreal

DECEMBER 2020

• Canada is ill-prepared for the impending dementia crisis, The Gazette, an opinion letter prepared following our partners panel: Working together towards the National Dementia Strategy

NOVEMBER 2020

• COVID-19 and dementia: Research to improve care for older adults across Canada, CIHR News, featuring an interview with Dr Isabelle Vedel and ASC Chief, Research and Knowledge, Dr Saskia Sivananthan.
• U of A research identifies walking speed as predictor of dementia, Folio, University of Alberta, featuring a recent publication from Drs Manuel Monterro-Odasso and Richard Camicioli
• Thinking about the way we move, an interview with Dr Manuel Montero-Odasso, Team 12 Co-Lead, and Scientific Synergy, an interview with two CCNA researchers, Dr Howard Chertkow and Dr Andrew Lim in Dementia Connections magazine.

OCTOBER 2020

• La COVID, un « tsunami » pour les personnes souffrant d’alzheimer, ICI Québec, featuring en interview with Dre Isabelle Vedel (in French)
• People with dementia among hardest hit by COVID-19 health restrictions, CBC Investigates (News) with a segment from Dr Isabelle Vedel.

SEPTEMBER 2020

• Dr Isabelle Vedel (ROSA – Team 19) gave an interview at the French CBC Saskatchewan Morning Show Le point du jour on Commment aider ses proches atteints de démence pendant la pandémie de COVID-19? (How to help your loved ones with dementia during the COVID19 pandemic?). In French

JULY 2020

• 12 risk factors key to preventing nearly half of dementia cases, report says, Global News. Featuring an interview with Scientific Director, Dr Howard Chertkow
• Following two distinct “incidents” where two young ladies wearing a clear facial mask where denied access to local commerce shops, Team 17 adapted the French-version of its Letter to the Editor which was published in three daily newspapers (Le Droit, Le Nouvelliste and Le Soleil)

MAY 2020

• On Global Accessibility Awareness Day (May 21), CCNA-Team 17 released a Letter to the Editor to highlight the importance of communication accessibility for people with “invisible” disabilities such as hearing, vision or cognitive difficulties.
• A conversation with the Right Honorable Adrienne Clarkson and Professor Jillian Einstein (WSGD Lead) on Being Old in the Time of Coronavisus, Massey Dialogues
• Mercer Institute for Successful Ageing Annual Public Lecture 2020 given by Dr Kenneth Rockwood on “Frailty in the time of COVID-19”
• Levelling The Field: Sex & Gender Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Mind over Matter magazine, Volume 10
• Mettre les aînés au centre des préoccupations, lettre d’opinion, La Presse, 18 mai 2020. The content of this letter to the Editor is also available in English

APRIL 2020

• Il faut mettre fin à l’âgisme, lettre d’opinion, Le Devoir, 18 avril 2020 (in French)

FEBRUARY 2020

• Natalie Philips, CCNA Associate Director and Leader of Team 17 (Interventions at the Sensory and Cognitive Interface) on CTV News: Hearing Loss. February 2020
• Natalie Philips on CBC Radio show The Current (17^th minute). February 2020
• Aging Well Suzuki Style, CBC The Nature of things, February 28 (David Suzuki with Dr Howard Chertkow, Scientific Director of CCNA. February 28, 2020

JANUARY 2020

• Team 18 Jennifer Walker presented the Canadian Indigenous Cognitive Assessment (CICA) tool in Part V of a series on Indigenous dementia care in The Manitoulin Expositor
• Dr Howard Chertkow gives Tips for Preventing Dementia on What She Said! Radio Show, 105,9FM The Region
• Dr Claudio Cuello présente les résultats de recherche sur l’utilisation de lithium dans l’Alzheimer (in French)
  • Article sur lapresse.ca
  • Article sur lactualite.com

NOVEMBER 2019

• Team 18 Karen Pitawanakwat work in “The circle of life; Indigenous knowledge about dementia in Canada”, ADI Global Blog on Dementia

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2019

• The research of Team 15 – Isssues in Dementia Care for Rural Populations is presented in the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation’s website (SHRF)
  • Building capacity for rural and remote dementia care
  • Beyond a diagnosis: Looking at new ways to support patients and caregivers living with dementia in rural and remote Saskatchewan

JUNE 2019

• New National Dementia Strategy to tackle dementia
  • Article in The Lawson Research with Dr Manuel Montero-Odasso

MARCH 2019

• Team 1 Ziv Gan-Or présente la recherche de son équipe sur un trouble du sommeil précurseur de la maladie d’Alzheimer (in French)
  • Article sur radio-canada.ca
  • Article sur Huffington Post
  • Article sur lactualite.com

FEBRUARY 2019

• Team 11 Hélène Girouard and Florentia Iulita gave many interviews following their work on Sex and gender of Alzheimer’s
  • Article in La Presse (in French)
  • Article in The Chief Scientist