Kathy Pichora-Fuller is Professor Emerita in Psychology at the University of Toronto and Adjunct Professor in Gerontology at Simon Fraser University. She is the audiology expert for the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging and the Canadian Longitudinal Study of Aging. Her main research and clinical interest for over three decades has been to understand how links between sensory and cognitive aging affect the communication and participation of older adults in everyday life. Currently, she is past president of the International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology and is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.