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Alexandrea Peel (Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health)
Profile
Current Activity
Mainly working as a collaborator and consultant on multiple projects focusing on rural seniors- health coaching for caregivers, digital tools for rural seniors, proving transitions for rural older adults with chronic disease, appropriate pain medication in long-term care.
Areas of Interest
- Age-friendly communities
- Chronic disease and aging
- End of life/ Palliative care
- Frailty
- Health promotion
- Mobility issues
- Non-pharmacological treatment
- Pain
- Polypharmacy
- Caregiver support and education
- Fall and injury prevention
- Retirement and employment
- Housing (Staying at “home”, retirement homes, assisted living, long term care)
- Nutrition
- Elder abuse
- Isolation
- Mental health
- Neurodegenerative diseases
- Policy
- Sleep
- Socialization and participation
- Substance use/ geriatric addictions
Approaches to Innovation
- Integrated models of community/services delivery
Networks
- Frail Seniors Project