March 4, 2010 8:15 am – 3:30 pm
Villa Marconi, 1026 Baseline Road, Ottawa
Keynote Presentations
Dr. Rosemary Kohr
The World of the Fragile Elderly
Father Mark Slatter
Bio-Ethical Concerns and Gerontological Care
Dr. Jens Pruessner
Inter-Individual Differences in Aging and the Relation to Personality and Stress
Concurrent Presentations
Faranak Aminzadeh
From Home to Retirement Home: Use of Case Stories to Examine Lived Experiences of Persons with Dementia During Transition
Dr. Rosemary Khor
Pain Management in the Elderly The Five Things you need to Know about Wound Care for the Elderly
Dr. Frank Molnar
The Assessment of Fitness to Drive in Persons with Dementia The Geriatricians Approach to the Elderly with Cognitive Impairment
Dr. Jo-Anne Clarke
Preventing Functional Decline
Father Mark Slatter
Keeping Your Head Straight in the Whirlwind of Ethical Controversy (no presentation available)
Dr. Jan Pruessner
Why Stress is Bad for the Aging Brain and What you Can do About it (no handout available)
Joy Parsons-Nicota