Dr. Janice Keefe is a resource to municipal and provincial governments and the federal government on aging, home care, long term care, and caregiving. Her academic output has earned her a Canada Research Chair 2002-12, a named chair in Gerontology at Mount Saint Vincent University, and on the CAHS Dementia Assessment Panel in 2019 and the Royal Society of Canada assessment on the impact of COVID on seniors in 2020. She is Director of the Nova Scotia Centre on Aging and has won awards from the Canadian Association of Gerontology and the Global Ageing Network and several local awards.