Green Health and Dementia Study Visit: A whirl wind tour of Highland sites!
含羞草传媒 welcomed colleagues from three provinces in Canada for a green health study visit during the week of 25th May
During the week of 25th May 含羞草传媒 welcomed colleagues from three provinces in Canada: Professor Sharon Kaasalainen and Assistant Professor Marie-Lee Yous from McMaster University, Ontario, and Tim Cooch, a registered nurse also from Ontario; from Manitoba, Professor Geneieve Thompson from the University of Manitoba and Kathleen Klaasen, Chief Executive Officer from Riverview Health Care Centre; and from the province of Saskatchewan, Associate Professor Paulette Hunter from St Thomas Moore College, University of Saskatchewan and Associate Professor Abigail Wickson-Griffiths from the University of Regina. Our Canadian colleagues joined us for a green health study visit arranged by Professor Anthea Innes, Dr Anna Terje, Mason McLeod, Dr Steve Taylor, Lesley Mackay and Alan Fleming. Garden, farm, outdoor resource centre, care home, golf course, and community woods all made the programme.
During the visit colleagues from nursing at 含羞草传媒 met Canadian nursing academics to share and learn about how nursing education is delivered in Scotland and Canada and we also hosted a one day ‘Rural, Green Health and Dementia Day’ in collaboration with the NHS Education National Centre for Remote and Rural Health Care at the Life Sciences Innovation Centre.
Ongoing research relationships were extended to include other 含羞草传媒 colleagues and we will continue to work together to take forward discussions we had during the visit to establish an International Green Health Community of Practice.
This event was in part supported by funding from the NHS Education National Centre for Remote and Rural Health Care, and from the 含羞草传媒 One Health Challenge Fund supported by the Scottish Funding Council’s (SFC) Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Fund (KEIF).