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CBB Researchers: Aging

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"Sending nanomedicine to the back of your eye to cure glaucoma," Global Impact, Marianna Foldvari, March 21, 2018
"Emotionally supportive virtual assistant could help people with Alzheimer's disease," Waterloo News, Jesse Hoey, August 14, 2017
"Researchers will transform health-care services for persons living with frailty," Waterloo News, Paul Stolee, June 9, 2017
"University of Waterloo researchers develop machine learning-based rehabilitation system," BetaKit, Dana Kulic, May 23, 2017
"Technology aims to improve physiotherapy outcomes using sensors and machine learning," Waterloo News, Dana Kulic, May 18, 2017
"Real-Time Full-Field 3D Shape Measurement," Office of Research – Technology Transfer & Commercialization, Jonathan Kofman, January 11, 2016
"Helping Canadians to age better with health data from space," CIHR, Richard Hughson, November 23, 2015
“A civil engineer fights cancer one moving cell at a time,” Engineer the Future, Wayne Brodland, September 23, 2015
"Wearable technologies will improve stroke rehabilitation," Waterloo News, Bill McIlroy, August 19, 2015
"Image processing to automate early glaucoma diagnosis," CBB researcher story, Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan, July 29, 2015
"Astronauts take Waterloo research into orbit," Kinesiology Research Story, Richard Hughson, May 12, 2015
“Dementia patients may one day get assistance from robot helpers,” CBC News, Jennifer Boger, March 15, 2015
"Nutrition and aging: Why aren't older adults eating well?" Kinesiology Research Stories, Heather Keller, September 10, 2014
"Osteoperosis: How can you prevent falls and fractures?" Kinesiology Research Stories, Lora Giangregorio, July 15, 2014
"GPS technology may help detect Alzheimer’s disease earlier," Waterloo Stories, James Tung and Pascal Poupart, July 8, 2014
"Finding your way after a stroke," Waterloo Stories, Bill McIlroy, February 4, 2014
"Reducing shoulder injuries in the workplace," Waterloo Stories, Clark Dickerson, October 7, 2013
"Biomechanics professor striking the perfect balance," Kinesiology Research Stories, Andrew Laing, June 7, 2013
"Home-based rehabilitation for seniors improves quality of life, saves money," GHSR News, Paul Stolee, June 5, 2013
"Breaking the fall: Smart walker will help prevent injuries," Waterloo Stories, Pascal Poupart, April 12, 2013
"An improved road to recovery," CBB researcher story, Dana Kulic, January 9, 2013

Press/Media

"Using VR to help seniors exercise," CTV News, Jennifer Boger, February 2, 2018
"Paul Stolee, School of Public Health and Health Systems," Youtube, Paul Stolee, December 21, 2016
"Bill McIlroy - Kinesiology," Youtube, Bill McIlroy, November 11, 2016
"Heather Keller, Kinesiology," Youtube, Heather Keller, November 11, 2016
"Video series on osteoporosis," Osteoperosis Canada, Lora Giangregorio, November 2, 2015
"NIH Distinguished Speaker - Dr. Jesse Hoey," Youtube Lecture, Jesse Hoey, October 20, 2015

Publications by CBB Researchers

"Validation of a one year fracture prediction tool for absolute hip fracture risk in long term care residents" Negm A, Ioannidis G, Jantzi M, Bucek J, Giangregorio L, et. al. BMC Geriatrics, 2018 vol: ,18 (1) pp: 320 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-018-1010-1
L K Fitzgibbon-Collins, I Brar, M Noguchi, W McIlroy, G Heckman, R Hughson; CEREBROVASCULAR HEMODYNAMICS, POSTURAL STABILITY AND FALLS IN OLDER ADULTS, Innovation in Aging, Volume 2, Issue suppl_1, 1 November 2018, Pages 44–45
Chen, J. A., Dickerson, C. R., Wells, R. P., & Laing, A. C. (2017). Older females in the workforce–the effects of age on psychophysical estimates of maximum acceptable lifting loads. Ergonomics, 60(12), 1708-1717.
Lachance, C. C., Jurkowski, M. P., Dymarz, A. C., Robinovitch, S. N., Feldman, F., Laing, A. C., & Mackey, D. C. (2017). Compliant flooring to prevent fall-related injuries in older adults: A scoping review of biomechanical efficacy, clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and workplace safety. PLoS one, 12(2), e0171652.
Lachance, C. C., Feldman, F., Laing, A. C., Leung, P. M., Robinovitch, S. N., & Mackey, D. C. (2016). Study protocol for the Flooring for Injury Prevention (FLIP) Study: a randomised controlled trial in long-term care. Injury prevention, 22(6), 453-460.
Howcroft, J., Lemaire, E. D., Kofman, J., & McIlroy, W. E. (2017). Elderly fall risk prediction using static posturography. PLoS one, 12(2), e0172398.
Haider, F., & Shaker, G. (2017, July). Wearable-free wireless fall detection system. Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, 2017 IEEE International Symposium on (pp. 2457-2458). IEEE.
Keller, H. H., Lengyel, C., Carrier, N., Slaughter, S. E., Morrison, J., Duncan, A. M., ... & Yoon, M. N. (2018). Prevalence of inadequate micronutrient intakes of Canadian long-term care residents. British Journal of Nutrition, 1-10.
Namasivayam-MacDonald, A. M., Slaughter, S. E., Morrison, J., Steele, C. M., Carrier, N., Lengyel, C., & Keller, H. H. (2018). Inadequate fluid intake in long term care residents: prevalence and determinants. Geriatric Nursing.
Keller, H. H., Carrier, N., Slaughter, S., Lengyel, C., Steele, C. M., Duizer, L., ... & Boscart, V. M. (2017). Making the Most of Mealtimes (M3): protocol of a multi-centre cross-sectional study of food intake and its determinants in older adults living in long term care homes. BMC geriatrics, 17(1), 15.
Field, K. M., Duncan, A. M., Keller, H. H., Stark, K. D., & Duizer, L. M. (2017). Effect of Micronutrient Powder Addition on Sensory Properties of Foods for Older Adults. Journal of food science, 82(10), 2448-2455.
Laur, C., & Keller, H. (2017). Making the Case for Nutrition Screening in Older Adults in Primary Care. Nutrition Today, 52(3), 129-136.
Laur, C. V., McNicholl, T., Valaitis, R., & Keller, H. H. (2017). Malnutrition or frailty? Overlap and evidence gaps in the diagnosis and treatment of frailty and malnutrition. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 42(5), 449-458.
Slaughter, S., Ickert, C., Carrier, N., Lengyel, C., & Keller, H. (2017). Identifying priority areas for improving food and fluid intake in long-term care: multi-professional views. Jour Nursing Home Res, 3, 61-63.
Puri, A., Kim, B., Nguyen, O., Stolee, P., Tung, J., & Lee, J. (2017). User Acceptance of Wrist-Worn Activity Trackers Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Mixed Method Study. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 5(11).
Boger, J., Eisapour, M., Domenicucci, L., & Cao, S. (2017). Design of Virtual Reality Exergame to Promote Upper-Body Movement for Older Adults with Dementia. 한국재활복지공학회 학술대회 논문집, 91-94.
Wang, D., & Hoey, J. (2017, November). Hierarchical Task Recognition and Planning in Smart Homes with Partial Observability. In International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (pp. 439-452). Springer, Cham.
Robillard, J. M., Li, A. W., Jacob, S., Wang, D., Zou, X., & Hoey, J. (2017, September). Co-Creating Emotionally Aligned Smart Homes Using Social Psychological Modeling. In Proceedings of the 4th international Workshop on Sensor-based Activity Recognition and Interaction (p. 8). ACM.
Drover, D., Howcroft, J., Kofman, J., & Lemaire, E. D. (2017). Faller Classification in Older Adults Using Wearable Sensors Based on Turn and Straight-Walking Accelerometer-Based Features. Sensors, 17(6), 1321.
Howcroft, J., Kofman, J., & Lemaire, E. D. (2017). Feature selection for elderly faller classification based on wearable sensors. Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation, 14(1), 47.
Howcroft, J., Kofman, J., & Lemaire, E. D. (2017). Prospective fall-risk prediction models for older adults based on wearable sensors. IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering, 25(10), 1812-1820.
Gatobu, S., Hoffman-Goetz, L., & Arocha, J. F. (2017). Numeracy and Older Immigrants’ Health: Exploring the Role of Language. In Cognitive Informatics in Health and Biomedicine(pp. 195-216). Springer, Cham.
Negm, A., Jantzi, M., Oannidis, G. I., Bucek, J., Adachi, J., Giangregorio, L., ... & Papaioannou, A. (2017, December). Comparisons of Hip Fractures Rates for a New Fracture Risk Scale in Adults Living in Long-term Care Across Canada. JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH (Vol. 32, pp. S359-S359). 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA: WILEY.
McArthur, C., Gibbs, J. C., Patel, R., Papaioannou, A., Neves, P., Killingbeck, J., ... & Giangregorio, L. (2017). A Scoping Review of Physical Rehabilitation in Long-Term Care: Interventions, Outcomes, Tools. Canadian Journal on Aging/La Revue canadienne du vieillissement, 36(4), 435-452.
Brown, Z. M., Gibbs, J. C., Adachi, J. D., Ashe, M. C., Hill, K. D., Kendler, D. L., ... & Giangregorio, L. M. (2017). Score Distributions of the Balance Outcome Measure for Elder Rehabilitation (BOOMER) in Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Vertebral Fracture. Journal of geriatric physical therapy (2001).
Elliott, J., Stolee, P. T., Heckman, G., Boscart, V., & Giangregorio, L. (2017). Implementing a process of risk-stratified care coordination for older adults in primary care. Innovation in Aging, 1(suppl_1), 159-159.
Puri, A., Kim, B., Nguyen, O., Stolee, P., Tung, J., & Lee, J. (2017). User Acceptance of Wrist-Worn Activity Trackers Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Mixed Method Study. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 5(11).
Boscart, V. M., Heckman, G. A., Huson, K., Brohman, L., Harkness, K. I., Hirdes, J., ... & Stolee, P. (2017). Implementation of an interprofessional communication and collaboration intervention to improve care capacity for heart failure management in long-term care. Journal of interprofessional care, 31(5), 583-592.
Glenny, C., Kuspinar, A., Naglie, G., & Stolee, P. (2017). A qualitative study of healthcare provider perspectives on measuring functional outcomes in geriatric rehabilitation. Clinical rehabilitation, 0269215517733114.
Piraino, E., Byrne, K., Heckman, G. A., & Stolee, P. (2017). Caring in the information age: personal online networks to improve caregiver support. Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 20(2), 85.
Lafortune, C., Elliott, J., Egan, M. Y., & Stolee, P. (2017). The rest of the story: a qualitative study of complementing standardized assessment data with informal interviews with older patients and families. The Patient-Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, 10(2), 215-224.
Dong, W., Wan, J., Xu, Y., Chen, C., Bai, G., Fang, L., ... & Wang, Y. (2017). Determinants of self-rated health among shanghai elders: a cross-sectional study. BMC public health, 17(1), 807.

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