Date: July 17
Prepared by Brooke Outingdyke
Announcements:
- Polio+ Picnic August 24, register!
- Rick has resigned from the club, he was the 05/06 president
- Congrats Klara on your Paul Harris Award
Guests:
- Ahmed, Shira, Hillary
50/50
- Pot: $151.50 Paul, Simon, Todd – No winner!
Guest Speaker:
U of W Schlegel Research institute for Aging – Shira Ginsler
- Former member of Stratford Club
- How research goes from Lab to Living room to change the way we age
- Finding answers so everyone can live well while aging
- One of main focuses is dementia, reducing people’s risk and how they can live well if diagnosed. Lifestyle and diet can help support the reduction of getting dementia
- Social isolation: maintaining a social network is important, isolation makes you more likely to develop dementia among other problems
- Take steps to help with those experiencing social isolation
- Knowledge mobilization, grant from Retired Teachers of Ontario to fund research for rural areas, supports for aging to take measures to support those who are aging
- What they know about social isolation and supports available
- Learned that a handbook would be a useful tool and pilot the program and gathered feedback – 200 copies were distributed
- Offered additional funding for a broader range, now up to 85K readers
- Facts and figures: Research Institute for Aging (RIA) 2005
o Research, educations, practice
o UW (research partner) Conestoga College (education partner) and Schlegel Villages (practice partner)
o Home to 15 researchers, focuses on dementia to medicine to spirituality
o Work with international peers to gain more understanding
o Supported by 50 staff to support knowledge mobilization
o 15 researchers have many projects on the go
- International Space Station:
o Richard Hughson Focus on the heart, brain and vascular system
o Astronauts spend 6 months in space – arteries age 10-20 years
o Cardiovascular aging, arterial stiffness results in falls and dizziness
o Gather data by conducting ultrasounds of astronauts in space and monitors recovery when they return to earth
o 1 in 5 healthy older adults have a disruption of oxygen to their brain
o Working to find answers to the challenges of aging
o Volunteers are so important in their research who meet their criteria based on the specific study – opportunities are listed on their website
o Resources on the RIA website and can be purchased and mailed for a hard copy
o Tours are listed on their site
o E-newsletters
You can support Aging Well – they are grateful for donations to help support research
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