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Rare Dementia Support Canada featured at Canadian Association on Gerontology Conference

20-22 October 2022 in Regina

At this year’s CAG conference Dr. Mary Pat Sullivan joined colleagues from the UK to deliver a seminar on developing international collaborations in healthy aging research. Hosted by the UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge, early career researchers from the UK and Canada gathered to share strategies on building research networks to address global issues on healthy aging. 

Dr. Sullivan also presented on the development of RDS Canada and its emerging model informed by the ESRC/NIHR funded Rare Dementia Support Impact Study.

Conference photo
From left to right: Dr. Elizabeth Russell, Director, Trent Centre for Aging & Society; Dr. Elaine Douglas, Research Manager, UKRI Social Behavioural & Design Research Program; Dr. Norah Keating, Director, Global Social Issue on Aging; Dr. Judith Phillips, Research Director, The Healthy Ageing Challenge; Dr. Mary Pat Sullivan, RDS Canada Lead.
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