The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) announced recently that Dr. Laura Middleton, a researcher in Waterloo’s Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences and Schlegel Research Chair in Dementia and Active Living, received a grant of more than $979,000 over four years for a project called Dementia Lifestyle Intervention for Getting Healthy Together (DELIGHT). Middleton leads the project alongside Dr. Heather Keller and Dr. Carrie McAiney, both in the Faculty of Health.
In addition, Dr. Carrie McAiney — another Waterloo professor and Schlegel Research Chair in Dementia — who leads the Forward with Dementia project also received $435,492 funding from PHAC.
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