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Posters

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# Poster Title Poster Representative
1 Remote Care Monitoring for Dementia: A Knowledge to Practice Guide for Healthcare Providers Simonne Cumberbatch
2 Meaningful Engagement Resource Guide: Evidence-based activities for older adults Debbie Hewitt-Colborne
3 The Behavioural Supports Ontario-Dementia Observation System (BSO-DOS) Version 2: User-Driven Updates & Enhancements Debbie Hewitt-Colborne
4 Brain Health Promotion with Métis Communities in Alberta Shanaya Fischer
5 Environmental inputs into cognition: Proposing a hypothesis Ezinne Ekediegwu
6 Active living inputs into cognition: Proposing a hypothesis Ezinne Ekediegwu
7 How well is messaging about the importance of vaccination for people living with dementia being communicated? A jurisdictional scan of National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups and dementia advocacy organizations Melissa Andrew
8 Multimodal ML for Stage-Wise Modeling of Alzheimer's Disease Dhruvi Thakkar
9 Barriers and facilitators to the integration of registered dietitians in rural primary healthcare memory clinics Allison Cammer
10 Dementia Dastan: Understanding the experiences of South Asian Canadians living with dementia and their care partners Navjot Gill-Chawla
11 Neuropsychiatric Symptoms and Caregiver Burden Across the Clinical Cognitive Continuum Daniella Vellone
12 Supporting the Sexual Health of People with Dementia: building confident, knowledgeable care teams through education Katelynn Aelick
13 Current State and Impact of Behavioural Support Transition Units in Ontario Long-Term Care Homes Katelynn Aelick
14 Evaluating Postoperative Delirium and Cognitive Outcomes After Perioperative Remote Ischemic Conditioning: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Kaden Lam
15 Cholesterol levels and neuropsychiatric symptoms across the neurocognitive continuum Ibadat Warring
16 Developing a strategic living laboratory with the Ministry of Health on the first Quebec dementia policy Isabelle Vedel
17 Feasibility and Tolerability of Deep Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Mild Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: A Pilot Study Mehak Ismail
18 The Effectiveness of Memory Care Team Embedded in Primary Care Jennifer Ingram
19 Co-designing culturally responsive KTE products with ethnocultural communities: An awareness campaign and policy brief on dementia care Zaina Alsibai
20 Wearable sensor technology for the detection and monitoring of neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia: A diagnostic test accuracy systematic review and meta-analysis Machelle Wilchesky
21 Assessing the Ethical Impact of Elder Abuse Screening in Long-Term Care: Evidence from a Pilot Evaluation of the EASI-ltc Tool Machelle Wilchesky
22 Detecting Mistreatment in Long-Term Care: Findings from the Initial Validation of the EASI-ltc Screening Tool Machelle Wilchesky
23 Informing the Development of an Online Education Training Program for Caregivers of Long-Term Care Residents with impairments in vision and/or hearing Machelle Wilchesky
24 Reviving social interaction for healthy aging: a feasibility study of participatory engagement of older adults in dementia prevention in Montreal and rural Botswana Machelle Wilchesky
25 Understanding Dementia in Tamil Communities: A Narrative Literature Review of Awareness, Risk, and Cultural Barriers to Care Sathurthika Selvanayagam
26Framework-Guided Validation of Dementia Education Resources Reveals Cultural Gaps for Tamil Communities Across Canada, the UK, and AustraliaSathurthika Selvanayagam
27Dementia diagnoses and use of healthcare services by people with incident dementia in Quebec across neighbourhood-level socioeconomic status and racialisationClaire Godard-Sebillotte
28Modified titration of donanemab reduced ARIA-E risk and maintained amyloid reduction: 18-month results from TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 6Akanksha Baharani
29Type 2 diabetes mellitus, cognitive performance, and incident dementia; identifying mediating pathways and biomarkers from the plasma proteomeSofia Perfetto
30Screening for frailty in dementia care: A feasibility study in primary care-based memory clinicsMichael Lee
31Alzheimer’s disease biomarker profiles and the Mild Behavioral Impairment ChecklistDylan Guan
32Vitamin D is Associated with Cognition in Young Adult University StudentsGenevieve Rea
33Relative Driving Speed Behaviour in Older Adults: The Influence of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Route Familiarity During Naturalistic DrivingShahab Alizadeh
34Strengthening Delirium Prevention and Management: Applying a Best Practice Guideline in a Transitional Care Unit SettingPaula Lambert
35Differences in health service use by diagnosis type among rural and remote memory clinic patients: A retrospective cohort studyJulie Kosteniuk
36Collaborations and resources for dementia care in primary care: A provincial survey of family physicians and nurse practitionersJulie Kosteniuk
37Donanemab in Early Symptomatic Alzheimer's Disease: Efficacy and Safety from the TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 2 Long-Term ExtensionMeenu Minhas
38 Ambulatory Screening to Identify Persons with Dementia at Risk for Behavioural Problems Shailesh Nadkarni
39 Prevalence of mental illness among persons with and without dementia in home care and long-term care settings in Ontario Joey Champigny
40 Developing Dementia Decoded: Acute Care Dementia Strategy at The Ottawa Hospital Matthew Sacheli
41 Prescribing Pharmacologic Therapies for Dementia: An Opinion, Attitude, and Practice Survey among Physicians in Canada Ferron Ocampo
42 Caregiver Stress amongst Immigrant Tamil Caregivers of Patients with Dementia (PWD) Thirumagal Yogaparan
43 What People with Dementia and Caregivers Say Online: Analyzing Emotional and Thematic Patterns with Large Language Models Daksh Hathi
44 Emerging Evidence of Microplastics as a Culprit in the Rising Incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease Eilya Parsa
45 Exploring the Impact of Reminiscence and Art Therapy on Loneliness and Emotional Well-being in Seniors: A Student-Led Intergenerational Intervention Eilya Parsa
46 Lived Experiences of Dementia Care among Chinese Canadians in Quebec Yun Winda Hao
47 COMPASS-ND, The Longitudinal Study of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging: 2014-2025 Update Michael Borrie
48 “We finally have an answer”: Communication of diagnosis and experiences of assessment in rural primary care memory clinics Amanda Dupperon
49 Building the Foundation for DMT Readiness: Co-Design, Implementation, and Early Results from the Canadian Dementia Registry Project Adam Morrison
50 Evaluation of the Memory Support System in a Canadian memory clinic and geriatric day hospital Neil Thomas
51 Early Indicators of Cognitive Decline from Eye Movements: Preliminary Results of a Multimodal Study Neil Thomas
52 Intersection Navigation and Speed Patterns on Familiar Routes Differentiate Older Drivers with Mild Cognitive Impairment Ranuki Onara Hettiarachchige
53 An Environmental Scan of Services that Support Communication between Primary Care Providers and Specialists in Dementia Care Across Canada Sathya Karunananthan
54 Engaging Equity-Deserving Groups in Dementia Research: The Value of Participatory Co-Design Approaches Sathya Karunananthan
55 Integrating social and structural determinants of health in research on aging and Alzheimer's disease in Canada Stefanie Tremblay
56 Lecanemab Clarity AD Open-Label Extension in Early Alzheimer’s Disease: Initial Findings From the 48-Month Analysis Barbara Ramos
57 The Delirium Project – Advancing Prevention and Management in a Psychogeriatric Population Crystal Chan
58 Reproductive aging, psychosocial well-being, and subjective cognitive decline: The influence of menopause timing on later-life engagement and quality of life Jasper Crockford
59 Age at menopause and cerebral small vessel disease: A cross-sectional analysis from COMPASS-ND Jasper Crockford
60 The Association Between Cascading Network Failure, APOE genotype, and Mild Behavioral Impairment in Older Adults Gurshaan Sidhu
61 Implementation of Biomarker First Pathway - BioMIND Kayla Vander Ploeg
62 The Geriatric Telehealth Program at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital Jean Triscott
63 A cross-disciplinary exploratory survey evaluating hospital staff’s knowledge about pain management for people living with dementia in two acute care hospitals Farah Jafri
64 From Prevention to Partnership: Adapting Therapeutic Falls in Dementia Care Alison Ha
65 The cross-sectional association between enlarged perivascular spaces and mild behavioral impairment in older adults with α-synucleinopathies Dinithi Mudalige
66 I WONDER: Art+Care+Dementia - A Contemporary Art Contribution to “Practice” Discourse Melissa Andrew & Cathy Busby
67 Sex-Specific Network Analyses of Alzheimer's Disease Risk Factors Across Cognitive Trajectories Brittany Intzandt
68 Associations of sTREM2 with Cognition and Behaviour in Dementia-free Older Adults Stratified by Amyloid Beta Status Sabika Azhar
69 The role of cognitive reserve in everyday functioning among cognitively normal older adults Maryam Ghahremani
70 Effects of Age, Sex, and APOE Genotype on Clinical Interpretation of Plasma p-tau217 in Alzheimer’s Disease Ali Mousavi
71 The Clinical Utility of Plasma p-tau217 as a Tool for the Biological Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease, A Real-World Experience Ali Mousavi
72 Evaluating Dual-Task Costs and Cognition in participants with Long COVID brain fog Christopher Davis
73 Imaging Biomarkers of Dementia Risk in TIA: A Five-Year Study of Hippocampal and Global Atrophy Thomas Oldreive
74 Relationship between the brain structural connectome and cerebrovascular reactivity in cerebral amyloid angiopathy Andrew Beaudin
75 Cross-cohort evaluation of the brain age gap as a biomarker for dementia severity Sara Early
76 Severity of self-reported memory complaints in cognitively unimpaired older adults are associated with neuropsychiatric symptoms and executive function Soraya Lahlou
77 Evaluating the Impact of Using Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence to Support Technology-Enabled Reminiscence Therapy for People with Dementia and Caregivers Winnie Sun
78 Examining white matter integrity in later-life attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder Natalia Docteur
79 Cerebrospinal Fluid Analysis of Amyloid Aβ1-42 and P-Tau in Transient Ischemic Attack Patients and Healthy Controls Bhavana Gill
80 A nationwide treatment management platform to enable safe, scalable deployment of disease-modifying therapies in Alzheimer’s disease Adrián Noriega de la Colina
81 Examining the Link Between Sleep Quality and Mild Behavioural Impairment in Dementia-Free Older Adults Areesa Imran
82 Solutions for Improving Incapacity Literacy and Substitute Decision-Making Nathan Spaling
83 Baseline and follow up positron emission tomography with fluorine-18 radiolabelled glucose analog computerised tomography (FDG PET/CT) scans in participants with subjective brain fog from Long COVID Angela Juby
84 A multidomain personalized community-based approach to dementia risk reduction improves lifestyle behaviours and cognition over 6 months Danielle D'Amico
85 Associations between cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related neuroimaging biomarkers and depressive symptoms Nikita Nukala
86 Study of Menopause And Resistance Training on Brain Health (SMART Brain) Wejdaan Faridi
87 Tuning into Seniors’ Mental Health: Investigating Music Therapy Using Generationally-Relevant Popular Music as a Therapeutic Intervention for Seniors Kaarunya Kandeephan
88 A Health Equity Framework for Vulnerable Seniors Living with Dementia Ngozi Ironyah
89 Exploring AI-Generated Personalized Digital Stories as a Tool for Reminiscence Therapy in Dementia Bella An
90 Investigating the Role of MEN1 gene in Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Alzheimer’s Disease in Autopsied Human Brain Tissue Badra Abbas
91 Evaluating the Impact of Smoking on the Development of Dementia Maalik Sheraly
92 Expanding the Dementia Prevention Landscape: A Narrative Review of Traditional and Underrecognized Risk Factors Kumayl Zafar
93 Novel rare variants in MAPT-related genetic FTD contribute to symptomatic presentation and age of onset: A genome-wide GENFI Study Mario Masellis
94 Longitudinal functional connectivity changes in the resting state networks of genetic frontotemporal dementia carriers Mario Masellis
95 Characterizing Cognitive Heterogeneity Across the Neurodegenerative Disease Spectrum: A Latent Profile Analysis in the COMPASS-ND Cohort Usman Saeed
96 A clinician’s experience of promoting intentional music listening for patients with cognitive impairment and dementia Valerie Sim
97 Toward a National Model for Dementia Care: Integrating Dementia-Friendly Practices, Specialized Care, and Community Collaboration Katie Churchill
98 Bioactive ROS-responsive nanotherapeutics attenuate intermittent hypoxia-induced cognitive impairment via NRF2/KEAP1/HO-1 signaling Yinpei Huang
99 The implication of pharmacists in family medicine groups seems to have a beneficial effect on medication use among older adults living with neurocognitive disorders Machelle Wilchesky

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Date

12th CCD Conference
October 16-18, 2025

Event Location

Calgary TELUS Convention Centre
136 8 Ave SE,
Calgary, AB
T2P 0K6
(403) 261-8500
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This conference is being hosted exclusively as an in-person event

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Call for Abstracts Opens:
End of February 2025

Call for Abstracts Closes:
July 18, 2025 (extended)

Notification of Accepted Abstracts:
End of August

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End of May, 2025

Early Registration Rate Deadline:
September 4, 2025

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