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The Dementia Resources for Eating, Activity, and Meaningful Inclusion (DREAM) Research Team, led by Professors Laura Middleton and Heather Keller (UWaterloo) has developed an evidence-based toolkit designed to inform service providers and persons living with dementia and their care partners on rights and inclusion, dementia-friendly mealtimes, exercise, and more!

Prof. Heather Keller, Safura Syed, Cindy Wei and Rachael Donnelly attended the hybrid (in-person and virtual) Canadian Nutrition Society's 2022 Annual Conference from May 5-7 in Gatineau, Quebec.

Congratulations to Kate Flanagan for receiving the Hallman Undergraduate Research Fellowship!

Congratulations to lab member Cindy Wei who was awarded the 2021 - 2022 Fitness & Instructional Leadership Award!

Congratulations to lab members Safura Syed and Hana Dakkak who passed their comprehensive exams and are now PhD Candidates!

Congratulations to Cindy Wei for receiving a Cansbridge Fellowship!

After a tumultuous year of weekly Zoom meetings, virtual thesis defenses, and online coursework, we ended our final meeting of 2020 with a group holiday photo on Zoom!

Congratulations to Professor Keller on receiving the 2019 Marie Taylor Award of Excellence in Long Term Care, Seniors Nutrition & Dietetic Practise!

Congratulations to Vanessa Trinca for successfully defending her Master's thesis virtually on Sept. 16, 2020!

Her thesis titled “Putting Quality Food on the Tray”: Assessing Patients’ Expectations and Experiences of Meals Served in Sixteen Ontario Hospitals assessed the validity and reliability of the new Hospital Food Experience Questionnaire used to measure patients' experience of meals served in Ontario hospitals.

Vanessa's thesis is available here 

Members of the Nutrition & Aging Lab (Rachael Donnelly, Cindy Wei, Vanessa Trinca) represented the Nutrition and Aging Lab at the Canadian Nutrition Society (CNS) 2020 Virtual Poster Expo, an online conference from May 7, 2020 to May 15, 2020.