2025 Interdisciplinary Conference in Rehabilitation Science of BC (INCREASE BC)
We had a wonderful day presenting at the 2025 Interdisciplinary Conference in Rehabilitation Science of BC (INCREASE BC), held at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute! Patient and family partners, students, and trainees from the UBC IDEA Lab shared our work across several oral and poster presentations. We’re proud to see our lab’s work and […]
Ashley Woo
Ashley Woo Ashley is a third-year Biology student at the University of British Columbia. She is passionate about discovering innovative ways to support individuals with dementia and improving the quality of life for those in long-term care homes. She strives to make a meaningful impact in healthcare by enhancing patient well-being and serving the aging […]
Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging Celebrates Inaugural Research Day
We are delighted to announce our participation in the inaugural Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging Research Day! This event brought together leading experts in aging research, providing an exceptional platform for knowledge sharing and interdisciplinary collaboration. We were honored to showcase our innovative, patient-oriented projects through engaging oral presentations and informative posters. Our […]
January – 2025
January – 2025 We kicked off the Lunar New Year with a wonderful celebration, bringing together our team and valued partners! The event featured delicious food, thoughtful gifts, and engaging project discussions, setting the stage for a year filled with collaboration, innovation, and meaningful impact. We’re excited for all that we’ll achieve together!
Haruka Furuichi
Haruka Furuichi Haruka Furuichi is a Master’s student in Nursing at the University of Fukui and a public health nurse in Japan. Her research focuses on frailty prevention and improving health outcomes for older adults from subjective and environmental perspectives. Through various projects and volunteer work, she collaborates with multiple institutions to enhance care quality […]
IDEA Lab Monthly Newsletter: April 2023
IDEA Lab Monthly Newsletter: April 2023
Projecting VR Videos
We were able to project our VR videos, which no longer require goggles. By making the videos more accessible, we hope to ensure that residents, family and staff have both an immersive and enjoyable experience! Thank you Dr. Hung for supporting our students Winnie and Mona, pictured below.
Burnaby Dementia Friendly Café
On December 8th and 16th, some of our IDEA Lab members co-led an event at Burnaby Dementia Friendly Café aimed at building social connection! We enjoyed live music, danced, conversed and enjoyed lunch! We also reflected on the importance of engaging people with lived-experience in research.
CHÉOS Knowledge Translation Article
On November 28th, CHÉOS published an article in collaboration with IDEA Lab regarding starting a lab Twitter account. This article was co-authored by Maddie Ongena- one of our lab members at IDEA Lab, with support from Dr. Hung. It discusses Twitter’s potential as a knowledge translation resource and provides insight on how to run a lab account. In the article, you’ll see what a typical day looks like running our Twitter account.
GSA 2022
On November 2-6th, Dr. Hung and Lily Ren attended the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Conference where they delivered two oral presentations. For the first presentation, Dr. Hung also co-chaired the symposium “Technology-Based Interventions and Assessment for Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment.”
VR Demonstration at Little Mountain Place
VR Demonstration at Little Mountain Place On August 3rd, we visited Little Mountain Place and introduced the Virtual Reality (VR) project to the care home. We brought the VR equipment and had over 23 staff and residents in total experienced the 360° immersive world for themselves! We shared our gratitude for their participation with VR […]
Exploring ethical risks of using a telepresence robot in Canadian long-term care homes
Exploring ethical risks of using a telepresence robot in Canadian long-term care homes Joey Wong We are pleased to participate and share our work at the HRI2022 conference. This workshop calls for positions and discussions to irritate two major, limiting boundaries within human-robot interaction (HRI): (1) to cross the boundaries of engaging in interdisciplinary work […]
IDEA Lab Monthly Newsletter: February 2022
Our February 2022 newsletter 🙂
Ahmed Soltan
Research Assistant