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Nearly one in ten Canadians has a mobility disability, making it one of the most prevalent disabilities in Canada. Loss of mobility resulting from traumatic injury, chronic and degenerative diseases, workplace accidents, repetitive stress injuries and natural aging processes contributes to billions of dollars in healthcare costs and lost work productivity.
Daniel Rea is working with Atlantic Ballet Atlantique Canada to create an augmented reality application that will change the way dancers collaborate across the country.
What if there were a tool that tracked your aging loved one’s health and the data could show you when they were in decline – could you prevent a health emergency or an ambulance ride to the hospital?
A team from the Centre for Research in Integrated Care (CRIC) at the University of New Brunswick, Université de Moncton, Horizon Health Network and Vitalité Health Network recently launched Navigating Dementia NB. This province-wide, community-based, bilingual pilot program focuses on helping those living with dementia, their care partners and their care teams as they navigate a complicated maze of health and social services.
The J Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) hosted MTME: NEXT on July 15, an event where master of technology management and entrepreneurship (MTME) students launched their new companies.
Big questions need big ideas, and these big ideas need big data. That’s where the New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training (NB-IRDT) at UNB comes in. The institute is known as an expert group in the protection and use of administrative data in research.