A building blocks strategy for developing bridging and knowledge transfer between ageing and disability care and policy

• Luis Salvador-Carulla,
• Michelle Putnam,
• Andria Spindel,
• Margaret Campbell,
• Tamar Heller,
• Jennifer Mendez,
• Christine Bigby,
• Jerome Bickenbach,
• Matilde Leonardi,
• Barbara LeRoy

Affiliations

Luis Salvador-Carulla

Professor of Disability and Mental Health, University of Sydney, Australia

Michelle Putnam

PhD, School of Social Work, Simmons College, Boston, USA

Andria Spindel

PhD, March of Dimes Canada, Canada

Margaret Campbell

PhD, Institute for Independent Living Washington, USA

Tamar Heller

Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Aging with Developmental Disabilities, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Jennifer Mendez

Associate professor, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Christine Bigby

PhD, Department of Social Work and Social Policy, La Trobe University, Australia

Jerome Bickenbach

PhD, Department of Health Sciences and Health Policy , University of Lucerne and Schweizer Paraplegiker-Forschung, Nottwil, Switzerland

Matilde Leonardi

Head Neurology, Public Health, Disability Unit Foundation IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy

Barbara LeRoy

PhD, Developmental Disabilities Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA