University of Alberta

Verena Menec

Dr. Verena Menec is the Director of the Centre on Aging and an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Manitoba. She received a doctorate in social psychology from the University of Manitoba in 1995. Dr. Menec currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Healthy Aging. Her main research interests lie in the areas of healthy aging and health care utilization among older adults, particularly at the end of life.