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FICCDAT 2011

Toronto, ON June 5-8, 2011

Abstracts are now being accepted for the Festival of International Conferences on Caregiving, Disability, Aging and Technology (FICCDAT). FICCDAT 2011 will bring together six important and different conferences all focused on enhancing the lives of seniors, persons with disabilities and their family caregivers. Between June 5-8, 2011 rehabilitation, social and health services providers, government policy makers, researchers, family caregivers, students, seniors and persons with disabilities from around the world will gather in Toronto, Canada to explore issues facing aging populations, the implications for healthcare systems and service providers, the roles and responsibilities of family caregivers and policy and how new research findings and technologies are leading new and practical solutions.


The International Conference on Best Practices in Universal Design will be Co-Chaired by Ed Steinfeld, Director of the IDeA Center and Co-Director of the RERC on Universal Design and the Built Environment and the RERC on Accessible Public Transportation, Peter Blanck, University Professor at Syracuse University, which is the highest faculty rank granted to only eight prior individuals in the history of the University and Chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, and Aaron Steinfeld, Systems Scientist in the Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University and Co-Director of the RERC on Accessible Public Transportation.


The format of this specific conference was conceptualized to achieve three fundamental goals: 1) to cover several domains (i.e. housing and communities, public environments, research methods, and dissemination/education), 2) to target critical issues/questions within those domains, and 3) to host an all-day State of the Science Conference for the RERC on Accessible Public Transportation.


For more information about FICCDAT or the International Conference on Best Practices in Universal Design please go to www.ficcdat.ca.