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Overview

Pia Kontos is affiliated with the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute in Canada, contributing significantly to the fields of health professions, social sciences, and medicine. Their scholarly work spans over 30 publications, with particular focus on geriatric care, technology use by older adults, and patient dignity and privacy.

Their research covers several main topics, including:

  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
  • Technology Use by Older Adults
  • Patient Dignity and Privacy
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Art Therapy and Mental Health
  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
  • Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development

Kontos has contributed to multiple subfields within broader disciplines, such as general health professions, sociology and political science, public health, environmental and occupational health, clinical psychology, and demography.

Recent notable publications by Pia Kontos include:

  • "Dancing With Dementia: Exploring the Embodied Dimensions of Creativity and Social Engagement," 2020, published in The Gerontologist
  • "Separate and Unequal: A Time to Reimagine Dementia," 2021, published in Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Kontos has also collaborated frequently with other researchers. Some of their most frequent coauthors are:

  • Alisa Grigorovich
  • Sherry L. Dupuis
  • Romeo Colobong
  • Andrea Iaboni
  • Arlene Astell

Their work has appeared in several recurring publication venues, notably:

  • Innovation in Aging
  • The Gerontologist
  • Dementia
  • International Practice Development Journal
  • PLoS ONE

In addition to articles, Kontos has authored a book titled Knowledge, Innovation, and Impact, published by Springer International Publishing in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Mapping new theoretical and methodological terrain for knowledge translation: contributions from critical realism and the arts

    Pia C Kontos;Pia C Kontos;Blake D Poland

  • Ethnographic reflections on selfhood, embodiment and Alzheimer's disease

    Pia C. Kontos

  • Embodied selfhood in Alzheimer's disease: Rethinking person-centred care

    Pia C. Kontos

  • The home as a site for long-term care: meanings and management of bodies and spaces.

    Isabel Dyck;Pia Kontos;Jan Angus;Patricia McKeever

  • The personal significance of home: habitus and the experience of receiving long-term home care.

    Jan Angus;Pia Kontos;Isabel Dyck;Patricia McKeever

  • Staging data: theatre as a tool for analysis and knowledge transfer in health research.

    Kate Rossiter;Pia Kontos;Pia Kontos;Angela Colantonio;Angela Colantonio;Julie Gilbert

  • Embodiment and dementia: Exploring critical narratives of selfhood, surveillance, and dementia care

    Pia Kontos;Wendy Martin

  • Relational citizenship: supporting embodied selfhood and relationality in dementia care.

    Pia Kontos;Pia Kontos;Karen-Lee Miller;Alexis P. Kontos

  • Resisting institutionalization: Constructing old age and negotiating home

    Pia C. Kontos

  • The meaning of mobility for residents and staff in long-term care facilities.

    E M Bourret;L G Bernick;C A Cott;P C Kontos

  • Expressions of Personhood in Alzheimer's Disease: An Evaluation of Research-Based Theatre as a Pedagogical Tool

    Pia C. Kontos;Gary Naglie

  • Tacit knowledge of caring and embodied selfhood.

    Pia C. Kontos;Gary Naglie

  • Rethinking sociability in long-term care: An embodied dimension of selfhood

    Pia C. Kontos

  • ‘Their finest hour’: older people, oral histories, and the historical geography of social life

    Gavin J. Andrews;Robin A. Kearns;Pia Kontos;Viv Wilson

  • Arts-based health research and academic legitimacy: transcending hegemonic conventions:

    Katherine M Boydell;Michael Hodgins;Brenda M Gladstone;Elaine Stasiulis

  • Principles for Fostering the Transdisciplinary Development of Assistive Technologies

    Jennifer Boger;Piper Jackson;Maurice Mulvenna;Judith Sixsmith

  • Neglecting the Importance of the Decision Making and Care Regimes of Personal Support Workers: A Critique of Standardization of Care Planning Through the RAI/MDS

    Pia C. Kontos;Karen-Lee Miller;Gail J. Mitchell

  • Traumatic brain injury among people who are homeless: a systematic review

    Jane Topolovec-Vranic;Naomi Ennis;Angela Colantonio;Michael D Cusimano

  • Expressions of personhood in Alzheimer’s: moving from ethnographic text to performing ethnography

    Pia C. Kontos;Gary Naglie

  • “The painterly hand”: embodied consciousness and Alzheimer's disease

    Pia C. Kontos

  • Bridging theory and practice: Imagination, the body, and person-centred dementia care

    Pia C. Kontos;Gary Naglie

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Sixsmith
Andrew Sixsmith Simon Fraser University
Stephen W. Hwang
Stephen W. Hwang University of Toronto
Verena H. Menec
Verena H. Menec University of Manitoba
Malcolm A. Binns
Malcolm A. Binns University of Toronto
Gerald M. Devins
Gerald M. Devins Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Patricia McKeever
Patricia McKeever Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
Christina R. Victor
Christina R. Victor Brunel University London
Isabel Dyck
Isabel Dyck Queen Mary University of London
Blake Poland
Blake Poland University of Toronto
Gavin Andrews
Gavin Andrews University of New South Wales

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