Evidence-informed Approaches for Managing Dementia Transitions

Professor Linda Garcia’s research interests focus on the impact of physical, social, technological and clinical environments on the quality of life of individuals with neurological disorders, especially dementia. She is interested in developing interventions that include approaches based on human interactions having worked previously as a Speech-language pathologist. She is currently the director of the University of Ottawa LIFE Research Institute, which takes an interdisciplinary, life trajectory approach to aging. Dr. McCleary is a Professor in the Department of Nursing and Graduate Program Director of the Master of Applied Gerontology Program in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Brock University. Dr. McCleary is also Adjunct Member, Institute for Life Course and Aging, University of Toronto. She is a mental health and gerontological nurse who works with research teams and service providers on health and social care for older people and their families. Her research and practice emphasize improving dementia care services as well as improving gerontology and geriatrics education in the health professions. She is a past president of the Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association. Dr. Drummond is an epidemiologist with interests principally in care for dementia in primary care, primary care surveillance and research, the public health-primary care interface, and health care for vulnerable communities.

• 1. Improving the lived experience of dementia transitionsNeil Drummond, Linda Garcia and Lynn McCleary2. “It is not a disease, only memory loss”: exploring thecomplexity of access to a diagnosis of dementia in across-cultural sampleSharon Koehn3. Driving cessation in people with dementiaBonnie M. Dobbs4. Transitions in financial autonomy and risk for financialelder abuseStacey Wood, Peter A. Lichtenberg, Muncuran Purewal and Linda Garcia5. Hospitalization of persons with dementiaKatherine S. McGilton and Geneviève Lemay6. Change in informal support: creating a caregiving systemMelanie Deist and Abraham P. Greeff7. Transitioning from home in the community to an assistedliving residenceLynn McCleary, Mackenzie Powell and Willian Dullius8. Relocation to a long-term care homeAnnie Robitaille9. A palliative approach to care: from diagnosis to end-of-lifeGenevieve Thompson and Abigail Wickson-Griffiths10. Steering through the waves and adjusting to transitions indementiaLinda Garcia, Neil Drummond and Lynn McCleary