Professor Lucie Ouimet earned her PhD in education (health option) from the Universit茅 Paris 8. She is interested in medical and social representations of Alzheimer's disease and the epistemological issues underlying these essentially defective representations. She is currently working on a repository of video vignettes of testimonials from people diagnosed with Alzheimer's, who live at home with their caregivers. She is compiling these life stories, which reveal the singularity of people's experiences, their variability, and the complexity of the disease. As part of the Labo Stress: Cognition and Learning project, Ouimet explores the impact of stress on the cognition of the elderly. She is interested in the phenomena of cognitive compensation and cerebral plasticity present in the early stages identified in the nomenclature of Alzheimer's disease, and the capacity of neurons to arborise under the effect of learning. She is working on the development and experiment of a pedagogical clinical intervention for Alzheimer's sufferers in the early stages of the disease, in both francophone and francophone minority contexts.
Lucie Ouimet
Presentations
Ouimet, L. (2023). Le concept de relation 鈥 en tant que soin port茅 脿 la relation en contexte de maladie d鈥橝lzheimer. Colloque Le paradigme du biographique 脿 l鈥櫭╮e de l鈥橝nthropoc猫ne. Maison des Sciences de l鈥橦omme Paris Nord, 14-15-16 February.
Ouimet, L. (2019). Autour de la maladie d鈥橝lzheimer. S茅minaire international, Laboratoire Experice, Universit茅 de Pau, 8 March.
Ouimet, L. (2017). Repr茅sentations de la maladie d鈥橝lzheimer : enjeux 茅pist茅mologiques et approche 茅ducative en milieu m茅dical. Colloque international Pratiques sociales et apprentissages, Laboratoire Experice, Universit茅 Paris 8 鈥 Saint-Denis, 8-9 June.
Ouimet, L. (2017). Approche salutog茅nique dans l鈥檃nalyse des t茅moignages d鈥檜n malade Alzheimer 脿 un stade avanc茅 et celui de sa proche aidante. Communication pr茅sent茅e lors du colloque Les dimensions d茅veloppementales des approches individuelles de la salutogen猫se. 87e Congr猫s international de l鈥橝CFAS, Universit茅 McGill, Montr茅al, 10 May.
Journals & other
Ouimet, L. (Forthcoming, 2024). Le concept de relation 鈥 en tant que soin port茅 脿 la relation en contexte de maladie d鈥橝lzheimer. In Actes du Colloque Le paradigme du biographique 脿 l鈥櫭╮e de l鈥橝nthropoc猫ne. Maison des Sciences de l鈥橦omme Paris Nord.
Full list of publications and other scholarly contributions.
Research interests
- Aging and ageism
- Social and medical representations of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders
- Inclusive societies for people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders
- Implications in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
- Non-drug intervention and lifelong education
- Biographical and narrative approaches