Noelannah Neubauer is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University Waterloo under the supervision of Lili Liu. Neubauer completed her Bachelor of Human Kinetics (BHK) and MSc in Interdisciplinary Studies from University of British Columbia Okanagan, and her PhD in Rehabilitation Science and Masters of Science in Occupational Therapy at the University of Alberta. Her doctoral thesis focused on developing the Canadian Guideline for Safe Wandering which is presently being used across the country among Alzheimer Societies, health professionals, first responders, care partners and persons living with dementia. Neubauer’s developing research program focuses on the creation and implementation of policies and strategies to enable older adults to age in place. More recently, her research has focused on devising and advocating for solutions that balance risk and autonomy for persons with dementia that are at risk of getting lost and going missing. She is the co-founder of the International Consortium on Dementia and Wayfinding, and the co-founder of OTech Canada.
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