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CIHR New Emerging Team, 2003 FOCUS AREA
Cognitive Impairment in Aging

• Strategies to Improve the Care of Persons with
  Dementia in Rural and Remote Areas
• Principal Investigator
• Debra Morgan, PhD, RN
• CIHR New Investigator, Associate Professor
• Institute of Agricultural Rural Environmental
  Health
• University of Saskatchewan

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Co-InvestigatorsUniversity of Saskatchewan

• Norma Stewart, PhD, RN
• Professor Associate Dean Graduate
• Studies Research, College of Nursing
• Margaret Crossley, PhD
• Associate Professor
• Director, Aging Research Memory
• Clinic, Department of Psychology
• Carl DArcy, PhD
• Professor Director
• Applied Research/Psychiatry
• Jay Biem, MD, MSc, FRCP
• CIHR New Investigator
• Associate Professor, I.ARE.H
• Division of General Internal Medicine
• Andrew Kirk, MD, FRCPC

• New Investigator Award
• Dorothy Forbes, PhD, RN
• College of Nursing
• New Team Members
• Lesley McBain, Doctoral Candidate
• Department of Geography
• Sessional Lecturer
• Department of Native Studies
• Sheri Harder, MD, FRCPC
• Assistant Professor
• Department of Medical Imaging

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New Emerging Team

• Funding Partners CIHR Institute of Aging, CIHR
  Institute of Health Services Policy Research,
  CIHR Rural Northern Health Initiative,
  University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Health
  Research Foundation, Alzheimer Society of SK.
• Project Goals A coordinated, interdisciplinary
  study of dementia care in rural and remote
  settings, aimed at
• Improving the availability of specialized
  personnel and services providing assessment and
  management of dementia,
• Improving the accessibility of programs
  supporting formal and informal caregivers of
  persons with dementia, and
• Improving the acceptability of services for
  persons with dementia and their caregivers.