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Alberta Association on Gerontology

The Alberta Association on Gerontology is an interdisciplinary organization.

Alberta Council on Aging

The Alberta Council on Aging is a province wide charitable organization, comprised primarily of organizations and agencies interested in issues and challenges related to Alberta's aging population.

Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR)

The AHFMR supports a community of researchers who generate knowledge that improves the health and quality of life of Albertans and people throughout the world. Their long-term commitment is to fund basic, patient and health research based on international standards of excellence and carried out by new and established investigators and researchers-in-training.

Alberta Long Term Care Association

The Alberta Long Term Care Association (ALTCA) is a voluntary non-profit organization, representing executives, owners and operators of Long Term Care Facilities throughout the province of Alberta.

Alzheimer Society of Canada

The Alzheimer Society is a not-for-profit Canadian health organization. The three levels of the Society: national, provincial and local, work together to form a nation-wide network of services to help Canadians affected by Alzheimer Disease.

Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation

Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation (CMHC) has an ongoing commitment to research that improves the technical, economic, environmental and social aspects of housing. CMHC is continually looking for ways to meet the housing needs of Canadians today and tomorrow, and to make housing information widely available.

Canadian Association on Gerontology

The Canadian Association on Gerontology (CAG) is a national, multidisciplinary association established to provide leadership in matters relating to the aging population in Canada. Through its many activities, CAG helps to foster research, education, and policy aimed at improving the quality of life of the elderly in Canada.

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is the government of Canada's health research funding agency. It supports the work of up to 10,000 researchers and trainees in universities, teaching hospitals, and research institutes across Canada developing high-quality people, excellent science and training the next generation of health researchers.  CIHR funds research that improves Canadians' health, health care system and quality of life while fostering commercialization, moving research discoveries from academic setting to the marketplace.  See the CIHR IA request for applications  for applications to Veterans and Dementia Fellowships. The purpose of this RFA is to build research capacity to advance clinical knowledge and practice in the field of Dementia and Veterans Care. Three separate Fellowships are announced in this RFA: Ste. Anne's Hospital-Veterans Affairs Canada-CIHR IA Fellowship on Veterans and Dementia, Capital Care–CIHR IA Fellowship on Veterans and Dementia, and St. Joseph’s Health Care London Veterans Care Program–CIHR IA Fellowship on Veterans and Dementia.

Centre on Aging – University of Manitoba

The Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba, was established on July 1, 1982, with a mandate to serve as a focal point for the conduct of research on aging. The experiences of aging individuals and the dynamics of an aging society are investigated using rigorous scientific standards. Community representatives contribute to all projects, and the Centre distributes its findings to administrators, policy makers, practitioners, and seniors to assist them in making decisions.

Centre on Aging – University of Victoria

The Centre on Aging at the University of Victoria is a multidisciplinary research centre established in 1992. Their mandate is to promote and conduct basic and applied research throughout the lifespan.

COACH (Canada's Health Informatics Association)

The Canadian Organization for Advancement of Computers in Health is an organization of more than 750 health executives, physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals, researchers, educators, information technology managers and vendors.

Education Resource Centre for Continuing Care

The Education Resource Centre for Continuing Care is a lending library for long term care and home care providers in Alberta, Canada.

Gerontology Research Centre – Simon Fraser University

The Gerontology Research Centre (GRC) was established in 1982. The associated Program in Gerontology, which offers a Post-Baccalaureate Diploma, Minor and Masters Degree, was established in 1983. Together, the GRC and Program serve as a focal point for research, education and information on individual and population aging.

University of Alberta Resource Guide for Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging

This site is maintained by the University of Alberta and contains a comprehensive listing of resources. The guide aims to simplify access to the university's extensive library holdings by providing call number families for topics such as Geriatric Nursing and Nursing Homes. There also is a listing of relevant websites.

Veterans Care Applied Research Network
Réseau de recherche clinique portant sur les soins aux vétérans
(Vet-link)

Vet-link is a relatively new, interdisciplinary network that has developed to facilitate efforts to meet Canadian veterans' current and emerging health care needs through research collaboration. Vet-link partners co-operate on funded research on themes of mutual interest and transfer of knowledge to improve services for clients, and contribute to national policy and program development where possible. The site has a link to CIHR IA request for applications  for applications to Veterans and Dementia Fellowships. The purpose of this RFA is to build research capacity to advance clinical knowledge and practice in the field of Dementia and Veterans Care. Three separate Fellowships are announced in this RFA: Ste. Anne's Hospital-Veterans Affairs Canada-CIHR IA Fellowship on Veterans and Dementia, Capital Care–CIHR IA Fellowship on Veterans and Dementia, and St. Joseph’s Health Care London Veterans Care Program–CIHR IA Fellowship on Veterans and Dementia. Information on how to apply is on the CIHR IA website.

United States

Alzheimer Research Forum

The Alzheimer Research Forum is a non-profit web site established to serve the scientific and clinical research community.

Alzheimer’s Association

The Alzheimer’s Association, a national network of chapters, is the largest national voluntary health organization committed to finding a cure for Alzheimer’s and helping those affected by the disease.

American Geriatrics Society

The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) is a professional organization of health care providers dedicated to improving the health and well being of all older adults. With an active membership of over 6,000 health care professionals, the AGS has a long history of effecting change in the provision of health care for older adults. In the last decade, the Society has become a pivotal force in shaping attitudes, policies and practices regarding health care for older people.

American Psychological Association

Based in Washington, DC, the American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States. With more than 159,000 members, APA is also the largest association of psychologists worldwide.

American Society on Aging

The American Society on Aging (ASA) brings together researchers, practitioners, educators, business people and policymakers concerned with the physical, emotional, social, economic and spiritual aspects of aging. The ASA is founded on the premise that the complexity of aging in society can only be addressed as a multidisciplinary whole.

Center for Health Design

The Center for Health Design is a non-profit, non-membership organization that works to make people's lives better by demonstrating that supportive building design can enhance health and well being.

Gerontological Society of America

The purpose of the Gerontological Society of America is to provide researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers with expanded opportunities to understand, advance, integrate and use basic and applied research on aging to improve the quality of life during processes of aging.

National Institute on Aging

The National Institute on Aging (NIA), one of the 25 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health, leads a broad scientific effort to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life. In 1974, Congress granted authority to form the National Institute on Aging to provide leadership in aging research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs relevant to aging and older people. Subsequent amendments to this legislation designated the NIA as the primary federal agency on Alzheimer’s disease research.

International

Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA)

EDRA is an international, interdisciplinary organization founded in 1968 by design professionals, social scientists, educators, facility managers and students. The purpose of EDRA is the advancement and dissemination of environmental design research, thereby improving understanding of the interrelationships between people, their built and natural surroundings, and helping to create environments responsive to human needs.

International Association on Gerontology

The Association has four main purposes:
To promote gerontological research in the biological, medical, behavioral, and social fields (social psychological fields) by member organizations and to promote cooperation among these organizations.
To promote training of highly qualified personnel in the fields of aging.
To promote the interests of the gerontological organizations in all questions pertaining to foreign or international matters.
To promote and assist in the arrangements for holding the International Congress of Gerontology at intervals determined by the Council.

Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC)

A non-profit organization, that provides technical advice and engineering assistance to developing area networking initiatives seeking to connect to the public Internet, especially to academic/research institutions and non-governmental organizations.

Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

Founded in 1923, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is an independent, non-governmental, not-for-profit, international association devoted to the advancement of interdisciplinary research in the social sciences. It does this through a wide variety of interdisciplinary workshops and conferences, fellowships and grants, summer training institutes, scholarly exchanges, and publications.