Latest news with #SusieFerguson
RNZ News
17-05-2025
- Health
- RNZ News
Transforming the lives of people with dementia
rear view of a senior man sitting in a wheelchair looking up Photo: 123RF Professor Vincent Mor is a world-leader in research into the needs of older people who has been working tirelessly to change the way we care for older adults and people with dementia. He has co-led two $50 million grants aimed to transform the lives of people with dementia. The grants created a massive collaborative research incubator to develop trials aimed at evaluating interventions for Alzheimer's disease or Alzheimer's-related dementia. The first objective is to fund and provide expert assistance to up to 40 pilot trials that will test non-drug, care-based interventions for people living with dementia. The second objective is to develop best practices for implementing and evaluating interventions for Alzheimer's and dementia care and share them with the research community at large. Professor Mor speaks with Susie Ferguson.
RNZ News
17-05-2025
- Health
- RNZ News
The economic benefits of clean air in schools
Photo: 123RF A randomised study of air quality in primary schools in Milan has revealed that adding air purifiers to classrooms not only reduced children's exposure to air pollution but actually increased students' concentration and overall school attendance, reducing the expenses associated with absentees. Jacopo Bonan is Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Milan and one of the key figures behind this study. He shares his research with Susie Ferguson. Susie speaks to Jacopo.
