Our Team

En-AGE is overseen and guided by the Ontario Society of Occupational Therapists’ seniors’ advisory council. Our council has members from 5 universities across Ontario, joined by key players in senior care from the community.

We provide strategic advice and oversee the En-AGE Portal to identify, prioritize, and evaluate issues relevant to those interested in optimal ageing. This resource combines our collective knowledge and makes it available to older adults and their caregivers, clinicians, public health professionals and policymakers.

Seniors’ Advisory Council Members on What En-AGE Means to Them

Christie Brenchley

Executive Director, Ontario Society of Occupational Therapists

The Ontario Society of Occupational Therapists is proud to launch a resource that we feel can inform and support seniors, their caregivers and families as they experience the transitions of aging. Built upon occupational therapy evidence and perspectives of seniors, the En-AGE portal can also be an excellent resource for occupational therapists and policy makers committed to ensuring that seniors have choice and supports to live life to the fullest as they age.

Colleen McGrath

Assistant Professor, School of Occupational Therapy, Western University

EnAGE is a great resource for older adults, occupational therapists, and decision makers to better understand key later life transitions.

Barbara Cawley

Vice President - Client Services, VHA Home Healthcare

Bianca Stern

Executive Director, Health Innovation, Center for Ageing and Brain Health Innovation

Older adults and caregivers find themselves faced with a complex maze of information, and a health system that is not always user friendly and accessible. En-AGE is a critical enabler to helping people live better lives.

Catherine Donnelly

Director, Health Services and Policy Research Institute, Queen’s University

EnAGE broadens the perspective of aging from a traditional biomedical approach and looks at aging from the lens of life transitions. My hope is that EnAGE becomes the ‘go to’ platform for occupational therapists to obtain resources to support older adults.

Barry Trentham

Chair of the Senior Advisory Council, Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto

It is my hope that the En-AGE Portal will offer an opportunity for seniors from diverse backgrounds to be heard, for occupational therapists to be inspired and for decision makers to be informed.

Mary Egan

Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa

I am thrilled to be a part of this sharing knowledge and resources to help seniors engage and re-engage in valued activities and social roles.

Sachindri Wijekoon

EnAGE Project Coordinator, Post-doctoral fellow, University of Toronto

By inviting older adults, caregivers, occupational therapists and decision makers to share their experiences and their work, the En-AGE web portal aims to be an evolving resource that is both current and relevant.

Lori Letts

Professor, School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University

Occupational therapists can support people through the transitions that come with getting older. EnAGE is a platform to bring those occupational therapy resources and supports to the public.

Aaron Yuen

Transitions Program Care Lead, SE Health

EnAGE is the missing hub that interconnects older adults and caregivers to the diverse and innovative work of OTs through unique stories. It will stimulate and remove barriers for all readers.

We would also like to acknowledge the many older adults, clinicians, academics, student occupational therapists and interns who contributed to the development of these modules. We would especially like to acknolwedge the contributions of Claudia Yousif, Ilan Mester, Barry O’Sullivan, Samantha Jagasar, and Meera Premnazeer.