WHEN
Wednesday, January 20, 2027
10 AM Pacific / Noon Eastern
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ABOUT
What happens for people who are facing dementia alone, without close and trusted others?How do they become connected to substitute decision-makers and care supports? And how do norms embedded in substitute decision-making frameworks aid and impede people's abilities to secure needed care and for self-determination?
This presentation will share key findings and recommendations from Dr. Pang's ethnographic research in long-term care homes with LGBTQ+ older adults and from the "Stranger Than Family" project focused on people facing dementia alone in Ontario and Alberta.
PRESENTER
Celese Pang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Mount Royal University
Dr Celeste Pang is a sociocultural and medical anthropologist. Her research, education, and community work focus on aging, disability, and care access and equity, with significant focus on 2SLGBTQIA+ issues. Her work is grounded in a commitment to examining and challenging cis-heterosexism, ageism, ableism, and other normative social dynamics that impact the communities she comes from and work with, and engages closely with critical disability studies, critical gerontology, and queer and trans studies. Research interests include aging; disability; care; consent and capacity; gender and sexuality; ethics; ethnography; public anthropology; arts-based methods.
