2023-05-22 19:39:46
The visual identity and objectives of the Living Lab ÉclairAGE were presented for the first time on May 9 on the occasion of the 90e Acfas Congress as part of the symposium “Aging well in the environment of one’s choice: the role of the ecosystem”.
At that time, the Living Lab ÉclairAGE team took the floor in a panel bringing together the Living Labs interested in the issues of aging in the regions. The name ÉclairAGE was chosen following consultation between the project partners and aims to highlight the importance of highlighting the issues experienced by seniors in the region.
A name for the radiance of our elders!
Remember that since June 2, 2022, the Living Lab ÉclairAGE team has brought together several partners, seniors and support actors, with a view to working on the co-creation of innovations to support seniors in the Lanaudière region and their relatives. More specifically, the Living Lab aims to co-develop a support ecosystem for seniors in the Lanaudière region to better support seniors in the region’s continuum of care and social services.
It is now possible to follow the evolution of this living laboratory through a new web page accessible via the Living Lab Lanaudière website. The ÉclairAGE Living Lab is supported by the Fonds de recherche du Québec en santé and is co-directed by researchers Marie-Michèle Lord and Valérie Poulin of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR). It involves the participation of a large number of actors who can be discovered on the project’s website.
“Choosing the name Living Lab ÉclairAGE clearly demonstrates our desire to position seniors at the center of the solution that we want to co-create with this research project. Several partners are already involved in the process and this demonstrates a great mobilization of the community. This is not unrelated to the importance given to the challenges of aging in the region for the people of Lanaudière,” said Nicolas Framery, Executive Director of CDÉJ and of the Living Lab Lanaudière.
“Seniors form an important part of our population in Lanaudière. These citizens deserve to have their needs seen and heard. With the ÉclairAGE Living Lab, we have a great opportunity to bring aging and its impacts out of the shadows,” added Alain Bellemare, Warden of the MRC de Joliette.
“Like the solution we want to co-create, the name Living Lab ÉclairAGE clearly evokes what we want to put forward in each step of this research-action. We have three years ahead of us to lay the foundations for a living laboratory with all the influence that our seniors deserve,” explained Marie-Michèle Lord, co-director of the Living Lab ÉclairAGE and professor at UQTR.
Our university is proud to be associated with this next step in the evolution of Living Lab ÉclairAGE! The expertise of the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières (UQTR) in research with the aging population contributes to the well-being of our seniors I would like to highlight the involvement of Professor Lord and the others UQTR researchers associated with this promising project for the region in which UQTR has been involved for several years,” concluded Christian Blanchette, Rector of UQTR.
enlighten us
Unlike research projects that are carried out in so-called “closed” laboratories as scientists are used to, the tool or the ways of doing things co-developed by the partners of the Living Lab éclairAGE will be tested directly in the living environments of seniors. . This is called a Living Lab. We therefore leave the walls of the laboratory to live the experiments where the care services are offered. Since 2017, the Living Lab Lanaudière (project partner) has been able to develop a wealth of expertise for the co-creation of living laboratories.
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