Lisa Meschino

Algoma University · NORDIK Institute

Older adults overwhelmingly want to continue to age in place but would benefit from a community of support to do so. The Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (NORC) Ambassadors program - an initiative from University Health Network (UHN) OpenLab - uses a participatory approach to create sustainable, resident-led, aging-in-place groups in NORC b...

Most research on marginalised groups, including those living with illness or disability, continues to exclude those experiencing illness or disability from decision making in the research endeavour. This is particularly true for persons living with dementia, who are stigmatised, misunderstood and assumed to lack the capacity to actively participate...

The earliest known explicit and unambiguous employment of representation in external media is in the form of figurative depictions of large mammals during the Upper Palaeolithic. These images, though often created with evident technical skill and intimate knowledge of the subject matter, are frequently characterised by curious and pronounced distor...