The Conversation: Repeated storytelling from elderly relatives doesn’t necessarily signal age or cognitive decline. It’s about conveying memories and values to a new generation.
The Conversation: Pairing disability counsellors with post-secondary instructors to help them design classes is one way colleges and universities can improve their efforts to support students with disabilities.
The Conversation: The long-term care sector is currently being held together by a very vulnerable workforce, and is at risk of failing without immediate solutions.
The Conversation: COVID-19 causes lung injury and lowers oxygen levels in patients because the SARS-CoV-2 virus attacks cells’ mitochondria. This attack is a throwback to a primitive war between viruses and bacteria.
The Conversation: The future of our health system depends on recruiting and retaining passionate and highly skilled health-care workers. It’s essential to build work environments where they feel supported and safe.
Queen’s researcher Daren Heyland (Medicine) has spent his career studying what nutrients are best for intensive care patients who cannot eat for themselves, trying to understand if certain nutrients assist with their recovery.
