529 | #Inspiring Minds 11: We Were Saying This All Along: Person-Centered Long Term Care and Small Homes

In this week's episode, hosts Milan Mammen and Kelly Wang interview Denise Bedard, a PhD candidate in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (Health and Aging). Denise shares with us her immense professional and academic experience in long term care, including reimagining person-centered care in small home service areas. Denise also kindly shares the difficult lessons learned about long term care through the COVID pandemic and its many impacts, especially on older adults in long term care; please consider this a content warning if this is a particularly sensitive subject for you.

Denise is part of the Caregiving Research (CARE) Lab at Western University.

 

Recorded on Tuesday, November 18, 2025.
Produced by kirstyn seanor.
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