Advancing Technology in Continuing Care Workshop

Join us on January 15 for a session focused on supporting collaboration across continuing care in Alberta. This session will bring together key players to discuss shared challenges and barriers and how we can practically identify and address immediate industry priorities with current technology more systematically and effectively across the sector.

Why attend?

·       Influence the future of continuing care through collaboration to address key industry priorities

·       Network with leaders and innovators in the field

·       Contribute to actionable, meaningful solutions

Guest Speaker: Vikki McCall

Professor Vikki McCall is the Chair in Social Policy and Employability Lead for the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stirling. She is also the Creative Director of Socialudo, who run serious games for serious change supporting organisations to strategize and future-proof housing. Vikki’s work includes leading projects focusing on housing, ageing, stigma, co-production the role of front-line workers, service users, volunteers and the policy process. Dr McCall is currently the Principal Investigator on the Intersectional Stigma of Place-based Ageing (ISPA) project (an ESRC funded project 2022-2027) and the INVITE project looking at supporting Inclusive Living support for older people in residential care (funded by the Longleigh Foundation). She is also Co-I on the UKRI funded Designing homes for healthy cognitive ageing: co-production for impact and scale (DesHCA) project. Vikki was part of the team that won the Sociological Review Prize for Outstanding Scholarship (2017) for work on tackling urban stigmatisation in disadvantaged communities and led the development of the www.asume.co.uk website, a resource for researchers as well as health and housing practitioners to access the findings of a comprehensive UK study on dementia and volunteering. McCall is an expert in co-production and also part of the team that worked with the Scottish Government to inform the development of Scotland's Volunteering Outcomes Framework. Vikki is Honorary Secretary for the Social Policy Association Executive Committee and Editorial Board member of Social Policy & Society.