Professor Lucie Ouimet earned her PhD in education (health option) from the Université 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 – en tant que soin porté à la relation en contexte de maladie d’Alzheimer. Colloque Le paradigme du biographique à l’ère de l’Anthropocène. Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord, 14-15-16 February.
Ouimet, L. (2019). Autour de la maladie d’Alzheimer. Séminaire international, Laboratoire Experice, Université de Pau, 8 March.
Ouimet, L. (2017). Représentations de la maladie d’Alzheimer : enjeux épistémologiques et approche éducative en milieu médical. Colloque international Pratiques sociales et apprentissages, Laboratoire Experice, Université Paris 8 – Saint-Denis, 8-9 June.
Ouimet, L. (2017). Approche salutogénique dans l’analyse des témoignages d’un malade Alzheimer à un stade avancé et celui de sa proche aidante. Communication présentée lors du colloque Les dimensions développementales des approches individuelles de la salutogenèse. 87e Congrès international de l’ACFAS, Université McGill, Montréal, 10 May.
Journals & other
Ouimet, L. (Forthcoming, 2024). Le concept de relation – en tant que soin porté à la relation en contexte de maladie d’Alzheimer. In Actes du Colloque Le paradigme du biographique à l’ère de l’Anthropocène. Maison des Sciences de l’Homme 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