ICCER Networking Event

Living Spaces: Policy Supports & Barriers in Alberta 

This networking event will examine the policy supports and barriers that drive the design and operation of continuing care spaces within Alberta. Our speaker, Jacquie Eales, will focus on the value and importance of taking a person-centred approach in designing living spaces.

This session is the result of research accomplished towards better understanding the relationship between people's lived experiences and policies that drive the design of living spaces. This event will begin with a short film titled "The Cigarette" that highlights some of the realities of designed continuing care spaces. We will then engage in discussions around how the lived experience of residents is disconnected from policy instruments, illuminating the policy barriers and the interpretations of policy instruments that are so intrinsically linked to designed outcomes. This event promises to engage and provoke attendees to consider design differently and to better understand the roles that policies play in the creation of designed living spaces.

An opportunity to network over coffee and snacks included!

Jacquie Eales is a Research Manager with Research on Aging, Policies and Practice (RAPP) in the Department of Human Ecology, University of Alberta. For over two decades she has focused on bridging research, policy and practice to make a meaningful difference in the lives of older adults and their families. She has worked collaboratively with government and community partners to ensure research projects are relevant to their needs and findings are translated in effective and creative ways. 

Registration is now closed.

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