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Five distinctive international conferences generate solutions to the
challenges facing the world's aging populations
TORONTO, June 11 /CNW/ - The world's leading experts on topics relating to aging, disability, informal caregiving and new technologies are gathering in Toronto for a one-of-a-kind festival. From June 16-19, 2007, The Festival of International Conferences on Caregiving, Disability, Aging and Technology (FICCDAT) will bring together for the first time five distinctive conferences to facilitate a global dialogue among leading experts on the universal issues of aging, disability, caregiving and the role of technology in helping the world's aging populations live longer and better.
FICCDAT delegates will have an unprecedented opportunity to share and explore the most current scientific, technological and social developments with other professionals from different backgrounds but who are working towards the similar goal of improving the lives of seniors, persons with disabilities and their caregivers.
"Never before has there been a professional event of this scale where international conferences unite with the common themes related to disability and aging but approached from very different perspectives," says Dr. Geoff Fernie, Vice President, Research, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (Toronto Rehab).
"In...