Communities Supporting Active Ageing
Pipe Dreams or Possibilities?
Registration and Agenda Information
October 30, 2014
Brockville Convention Center
To register please email: Dawn Edgley [email protected]
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM | REGISTRATION | |
Continental Breakfast | ||
9:00 AM | Welcome and Opening Remarks | |
9:15 AM – 12:00 PM | Presentations 1- 3 | |
12:00 PM -12:40 PM | Lunch Break | |
Buffet lunch will be provided | ||
12:40PM -1:30PM | Presentation 4 | |
1:30PM – 2:00PM | Audience Q&A with presenters | |
2:00PM-3:00PM | Networking and Social Hour |
COST: $50.00 per person includes tax
RSVP Mandatory. To confirm your attendance please email: [email protected]
Payment can be mailed in advance or will be accepted at the registration desk on the day of the event.
Cheques in the amount of $50.00 are payable to:CARP, Brockville and Thousand Islands Chapter
2927 Kelly Road, Brockville ON K6V 5T1
Keynote Presentation:
Dr. Samir K. Sinha, MD, DPhil, FRCP
Director of Geriatrics, Mount Sinai and the University Health Network Hospitals
Expert Provincial Lead, Ontario’s Seniors Strategy
SPECIAL WELCOME TO Co-PRESENTERS:
DR. JOHN PUXTY, MB.,ChB., MRCP(UK), FRCP (C)
Dr John Puxty is currently an Associate Professor and Chair of the Division of Geriatric Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Queens University. He is co-Director of the Centre for Studies in Aging and Health at Providence Care. He is the Clinical Lead for the Southeast Ontario Clinical Service Roadmap for Restorative Care, Co-Chair of the Executive of the Seniors Health Knowledge Network and Chair of the Ontario Network of RGPs.
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MANON THOMPSON, Regional Consultant, Elder Abuse Ontario ONPEA
The Ontario Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse oversees the implementation of Ontarios Strategy to Combat Elder Abuse in addition to a number of other initatives
Their mission is to create an Ontario that is free from abuse for all seniors, through awareness, education, training, collaboration, service coordination and advocacy.
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KEN DOHERTY, Director of Community Services, City of Peterborough
CHRIS KAWALEC, Community, Social Plan Coordinator, City of Peterborough
The city of Peterborough has one of the highest number of seniors residents in the country. Once a community heavily dependent on manufacturing, Peterborough is pioneering the way communities can drive economic growth by embracing their aging community.