Description
From changes in research to shifting PhD theses, early career researchers around the world have seen a variety of critical impacts to their work. Hear from five early career researchers on their experiences, including Q&A and discussion opportunities in this free, 90 minute program. Intended for those working in all older adult mental health disciplines.
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Presentation: Surfing on the waves of
COVID-19: about the adaptability of me as a researcher, a nurse and a human
being
Anne van den Bulck PhD Candidate at Department of Health Services Research, Maastricht University The Netherlands |
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Presentation: "Still, Stay with
Us" - the Challenge of Dementia Care Services during the COVID-19 and
Promotion of DemenTitude
TM in Hong Kong Chi Man Chui, PhD Chief Training Consultant of the Jockey Club Centre for Positive Ageing Hong Kong |
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Presentation: Environmental stimuli in
nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned to improve the management
of challenging behavior
Inge Knippenberg PhD Candidate at the Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen The Netherlands |
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Presentation: Social constructions
of older people and their care in Ireland’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Katharine Schulmann, MSc PhD candidate in the School of Social Work & Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin Ireland |
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Presentation: Impact on
neuropsychological evaluation due to pandemic, is tele-neuropsychology
possible?
Loreto Olavarria Neuropsychologist of the Memory and Neuropsychiatry Clinic of the Hospital Salvador - University of Chile Chile |
Program Organizers
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Sascha Bolt PhD Candidate for the Living Lab in Ageing & Long-Term Care, Maastricht University; Masters in Clinical and Neuropsychology The Netherlands |
Dr. Tomás León, MD Old Age psychiatrist; Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at Global Brain Health Institute Chile |
Calvin Swords, PhD Irish Research Council Scholar; PhD Candidate & Part-Time Lecturer, School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin Ireland |
Contributors
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Anne van den Bulck
Anne van den Bulck is a PhD Candidate at Department of Health Services Research, Maastricht University. She holds both a Bachelor of Nursing as well as a Master of Healthcare, Policy, Innovation and Management.
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Chi Man Chui, PhD
Dr. Chui is the Chief Training Consultant of the Jockey Club Centre for Positive Ageing. He is an honorary lecturer at the University of Stirling, United Kingdom and received his PhD in Social Welfare from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He got three Masters degrees in Clinical Gerontology from CUHK, Dementia Studies from the University of Stirling and Social Service Management from CUHK respectively. He is also the co-director of two programmes in Dementia Studies in the Faculty of Medicine, CUHK and was awarded Teacher of the Year in 2016. He was the 28th Outstanding Social Worker in Hong Kong. As a dementia care specialist, he is dedicated to the needs of people with dementia and their families. He is interested in the areas of academic research, programme curriculum, consultative training, public education, project development and management and advocacy in dementia care. He collaborates with various overseas organization and actively promote the voice of people with dementia and the dementia-friendly languages in Hong Kong.
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Inge Knippenberg
Inge Knippenberg (Baexem, the Netherlands, 1988) studied Psychology at the Open University of the Netherlands. Currently, she is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Medical Centre, Radboudumc Alzheimer Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her research is about deliberate and intuitive antidepressant strategies in nursing homes. She also works as a lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology, Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, the Netherlands.
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Katharine Schulmann, MSc
Katharine is a qualitative researcher working in the fields of ageing and long-term care for older adults. She is particularly interested in issues around equity in access to care, the implementation of human rights standards in practice, and in the social constructions of older people. Katharine is currently in her third year of a PhD in the School of Social Work & Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin. Her PhD research is a Grounded Theory study of the official discourses related to older persons and their care during the Covid-19 pandemic in Ireland. From 2013 to 2018, she was researcher and policy analyst with the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research in Vienna, working on numerous projects related to care for older persons. These included a project to develop an comparative index of human rights-based policies for EU countries, and co-authoring a handbook on community-based care for persons with dementia. Katharine received a MSc degree in Global Health and Medical Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh in 2012.
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Loreto Olavarria
Loreto Olavarria is a Neuropsychologist of the Memory and Neuropsychiatry Clinic of the Hospital Salvador - University of Chile. She holds a Master in Cognitive Neuroscience from University College London.
Academic School of Medicine University of Chile.