Can Social Media Help Improve Dementia Care? | Thomas Hadjistavropoulos | TEDxRegina

[Music] [Applause] [Music] 17 years. That's how long it takes for clinically important research findings to make their way into widespread healthc care practice. 17 years.And for many findings, it doesn't happen at all. You could say that research is lost in translation. Ideas, discoveries with the potential of transforming lives remain buried in books and journals, never reaching the hands of the people who need them the most.This 17-year gap between practice and research, it's not just a statistic to me, ...