Isabelle Vedel, Geriatrics, Mc Gill University, Canada
Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University. She is the co-founder and scientific director of the pan-Canadian and international research team “Research on the Organization of Health Services for Alzheimer” (ROSA). Senior scientist at the Quebec surveillance institute: INSPQ (Institut National de la Santé Publique du Québec).
Her research focuses on the implementation, evaluation, and organization of primary health care services for persons living with dementia using mixed methods (analysis of administrative databases, chart review, surveys, interviews, focus groups). She is responsible for the evaluation of the Alzheimer's plan in Quebec and participated as an expert with the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences to support the development of the national strategy on dementia.
Nadia Sourial, Public Health, Université de Montréal, Canada
Assistant professor in the Department of Health Management, Evaluation and Policy / School of Public Health at Université de Montréal
Her research focuses on health services for vulnerable older persons (e.g. persons living with Alzheimer’s disease/ dementia, socially isolated and frequent users) ; evaluation of primary care policies and models in vulnerable older persons using large observational data ; development of innovative study design methods and analytical approaches for the assessment of complex interventions.
Fabio Olivieri, Social Pedagogy, University Roma Tre, Italy
Fabio Olivieri is Researcher at the Department of Educational Sciences of the University of Roma Tre. He teaches social pedagogy and theory and methods of pedagogical counseling.
His research focuses on professional development of pedagogues and social educators, supervision and Appreciative Inquiry in educational contexts.
Raminta Bardauskiene, Human and Social Studies, MRUNI, Lithuania
Raminta Bardauskiene is Vice-dean for Science at Faculty of Human and Social Studies at Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania, and Associated professor of social work programme at Faculty of Human and Social Studies and ESWOCHY Consortium Coordinator at Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania, Institute of Educational Science and Social Work.
Her researche focuses on social work, social welfare, ageing population and family policy.
Agata Katkonienė is Head of Research Quality and Analysis Office at Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lituania, and lecturer of social work programme at Mykolas Romeris university, Vilnius, Lithuania, Institute of Educational Science and Social Work.
Her research focuses on social work with family, older adults, seniors, digital education, digital social work.
Irena Zemaitaityte is Head of Life long learning laboratory at Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania, and Professor of educational science, lifelong learning and aging of population at Mykolas Romeris university, Vilnius, Lithuania, Institute of Educational Science and Social Work.
Her research focuses on adult education, non-formal and informal adult education, education and learning of older adults, education tchnologies and digital education.
Diego Fernandez Pinal, Neuropsychology, University Santiago de Campostela, Spain
Diego Pinal Associate Researcher at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
His research focuses on the identification of the neural correlates of cognitive impairment associated with age and/or chronic pain, with an special interest on working memory and cognitive control mechanisms and processes; and on the effectiveness of different non-pharmacological interventions, mainly cognitive training and transcranial electrical stimulation, to reduce cognitive impairment.
Fernando Alberto Soares Petronilho, Nursing Studies, UMinho, Portugal
Fernando Petronilho is Coordinating professor at the Nursing School of the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, and the Director of the Master's Degree in Rehabilitation Nursing at University of Minho, researcher at Nursing Research Center and coordinator of the axes “Nursing care throughout life”.
His research focuses on screening for Abuse Victims among older people and on the phenomena of elderly care and functionality.
Paula Encarnação, Nursing Studies, UMinho, Portugal
Paula Encarnação is Adjunct Professor at University of Minho, Braga, Portugal and the Vice-President of the School of Nursing at the University of Minho, and the Director of the master's program in Medical-Surgical Nursing. She has experience in Intensive Care Nurse and in Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Her research focuses on Care for vulnerable older people, Spirituality, Medical-Surgical, Palliative Care, Chronic Disease, Strengths-Based Nursing and Healthcare (SBNH philosophy/Laurie Gottlieb/McGill University)
Maria Manuela Pereira Machado, Nursing Studies, UMinho, Portugal
Maria Manuela Pereira Machado is Adjunct Professor at the School of Nursing (ESE) of the University of Minho, and a nurse specialising in rehabilitation nursing.
Her research focuses on self-care and self-management of RT; the role of carer in care for older people; prevention, assessment and intervention in Residential Structures for the Elderly (ERPI) as care contexts and violence/maltreatment of older people.
Marcelina Zuber, Sociology of Culture, UWr, Poland
Marcelina Zuber is Associate professor, University of Wrocław, Poland, and the head of the Department of Sociology of Culture and Civilisation of University of Wrocław, Poland, and the Coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus MITRA Programme at University of Wrocław.
Her reserach focuses on sociology of culture and multiculturalism, sociology of knowledge and science, sociology of communication; the impact of culture on the experience of caring and on defining vulnerability ; the impact of social factors on care systems and care experience.
Adriana Teodorescu, Comparative Literature & Sociology, BBU, Romania
Adriana Teodorescu is Lecturer in sociology at the Department of Social Work, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She is the ambassador for Romania of The Association for the Study of Death and Society.
Her research focuses on death studies, social gerontology, narrative gerontology, cultural studies, sociology of communication.
Jolanta Pivoriene is Vice Dean for International Relations and Projects at the Faculty of Human and Social Studies at Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania, and Professor of Sociology at Mykolas Romeris university, Vilnius, Lithuania, Institute of Educational Science and Social Work.
Her research focuses on social changes, child and family welfare, ageing.
Anabela Fernandes, Neuropsychology, UMinho Portugal
Anabela Silva Fernandes Junior Researcher, Psychological Neuroscience Laboratory, CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Potugal
Her research focuses on neurodegerenative diseases, with the major goal of combining experimental physical evaluation, neuroimaging methods and molecular markers assessment to comprehensively study the triangular relationship between these three domains through aging; pathologic mechanism of Neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases ; rehabilitation strategies for age-related cognitive and motor decline.
Sónia da Silva Sousa, Neuropsychology, UMinho, Portugal
Sónia da Silva Sousa is Junior Researcher, Psychological Neuroscience Laboratory, CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Potugal.
Her research focuses on studying the interplay between the neurodevelopment of executive functions and behavior, throughout the lifespan, specifically, in studying the influence of brain development and lifestyle on executive functions and how an atypical development of these processes may lead to unhealthy behaviors, or disease. Sónia S. Sousa has technical skills on neuropsychological evaluation and neuroimaging analysis.
