Noelannah Neubauer is a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Health at the University Waterloo and is a rural occupational therapist at Lacombe Hospital and Care Centre in Alberta. Neubauer completed her Bachelor of Human Kinetics (BHK) and MSc in Human Kinetics from University of British Columbia Okanagan in 2012 and 2014, and her PhD in Rehabilitation Science and MSc in Occupational Therapy at the University of Alberta in 2019 and 2021. Her doctoral thesis focused on developing the Canadian Guideline for Safe Wandering which is presently being used across the country among Alzheimer Societies, health professionals, first responders, care partners and persons living with dementia. Neubauer’s developing research program focuses on the creation and implementation of policies and strategies to enable older adults to age in place. More recently, her research has focused on devising and advocating for solutions that balance risk and autonomy for persons with dementia that are at risk of getting lost and going missing. She is the co-founder of the International Consortium on Dementia and Wayfinding, co-founder of OTech Canada, and is a co-author of the recently published book “Autonomy and Independence: Aging in an Era of Technology”.