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Marlene Goldman, author of several books including Forgotten: Narratives of Age-Related Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease in Canada, will give two speaker sessions at the 13th Annual Knowledge Exchange in Toronto. The conference is hosted by the National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly (NICE) and the National Institiute on Ageing (NIA).
This year's two-day event theme is Transitions: Aging Across the Life Course. Since 2006, the Annual NICE Knowledge Exchange provides a unique opportunity for members of the community, clinicians, academics, researchers, practitioners, students, seniors and business leaders to come together, to network, to exchange new ideas, introduce insights and innovations, and transfer knowledge and best practices with the goal of improving the care of older adults.
Weaving together scientific, cultural, and aesthetic depictions of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, Forgotten asserts that the only crisis associated with Canada's aging population is one of misunderstanding. Revealing that turning illness into something monstrous can have dangerous consequences, Marlene Goldman seeks to identify the political and social influences that have led to the gothic disease model and its effects on society.
Marlene Goldman is professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto and the author of DisPossession: Haunting in Canadian Fiction.