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- Dementia-inclusive streets and community access participation and engagement
- Gerontology Research Centre
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- Precision Mental Health Lab
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Graduate Students
PhD Students
Sandeep Dhillon
Supervisor: Mitchell
Research Areas: Immigrant women and their perceived mental health; unmasking social stigmas and taboos related to immigrant elderly Punjabi women in Canada; social determinants of health.
Shreemouna Gurung
Supervisor: Chaudhury
Research Areas: Exploring the delivery of person-centred care to ethnocultural minority seniors in long-term care settings.
Shawna Hopper
Supervisor: Cosco
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Research Areas: Social isolation; mental health; cognition; longitudinal analyses.
Lucy Kervin
Supervisor: Cosco
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Research Areas: Barriers and facilitators of care access and system navigation for older adults living without familial or informal support; overcoming social isolation and loneliness in later life; overcoming health inequity through community and systems-level approaches.
Boah Kim
Supervisor: Wister
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Research Areas: Community-based integrated care; informal and formal caregiving; continuity of care; healthy aging; older adults with complex needs; multimorbidity; healthcare service research.
Eireann O'Dea
Supervisor: Wister
Research Areas: Generativity (desire among individuals to help and teach the next generation) and formal and informal activities; cultural generativity; impact of COVID-19 and volunteering.
Kishore Seetharaman
Supervisor: Chaudhury
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Research Areas: Architectural design; environmental gerontology; therapeutic environments for mental health; design for dementia; age-friendly and dementia-friendly neighbourhood planning and design; qualitative methods; mixed methods; visual methods; particapatory action research.
Samantha Teichman
Supervisor: Mitchell
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Research Areas: Grief, death and dying; families and carework; communication technologies as care.
Becky White
Supervisor: Sixsmith
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Research Areas: Healthy lifestyles and wellness.
Jiachi Zhang
Supervisor: Wister
Research Areas: Healthy aging; multimorbidity; resilience and aging; quality of life; older adults
Ziying Zhang
Supervisor: ChaudHury
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Research Areas: Dementia care; long term care; person-centred approach; meaningful engagement.
MA Students
Gabriella Bodanese
Supervisor: Pauly
Research Areas: Mental health and aging; climate change impact in older adults; family and community as a protective factor for the elderly.
Gracen Bookmyer
Supervisor: Mahmood
Research Areas: Aging in the right place within the rural context; LGBTQIA2+ older adults; narrative gerontology; the arts and aging.
Hailey Ford Jenkins
Supervisor: Mahmood
Research Areas: Longterm disability; social participation; environmental gerontology; accessibility; health and aging.
Sogol Haji Hosseini
Supervisor: Mahmood
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Research Areas: Environmental Gerontology, Active Mobility, Mobility of Older Adults, Accessibility, Age-Friendly Cities, Age-Friendly Neighborhood Planning, and Promoting Public Health.
Niloofar Hedayati
Supervisor: Chaudhury
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Research Areas: Environmental Gerontology with a focus on health-promotive neighbourhoods for older adults.
Esme Maki
Supervisor: Chaudhury
Research Areas: The lack of cultural humility in long term care that has detrimental impact on racialized and immigrant older adults.
Aryana Mohammed
Supervisor: Pauly
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Research Areas: Using the arts to improve mental health and wellbeing among the elderly; narrative gerontology; health promotion and social prescribing; ethnocultural long-term care homes and its influence on community building
Rojan Nasiri
Supervisor: Mahmood
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Research Areas: Environmental gerontology, age-friendly cities, mobility among older adults and people with disabilities.
Margaret Ovenell
Supervisor: Mahmood
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Research Areas: Climate change and aging; aging in the right place, LGBTQ2S+ older adults.
Preet Purewal
Supervisor: Mitchell
Research Areas: Impact of emergency visits on informal caregivers.
Jean Ramirez Echavarria
Supervisor: Mahmood
Research Areas: The built environment and its impact on identity, LGBTQIA2S+ older adults, age-friendly communities and socio-spatial disruption.
Hina Salman
Supervisor: Sixsmith
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Research Areas: Early-stage dementia and educational initiative in long-term care centers
Marissa Stalman
Supervisor: Chaudhury
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Research Areas: The lived experiences and teachings of persons living with dementia and their care partners, caregivers, families, and chosen families; person-centred care; end-of-life, hospice, and palliative care; systemic issues in long-term care; substance use and mental illness in the older adult population.
Elise Stone
Supervisor: Sixsmith
Research Areas: Green space, gardening, and climate change.
Andrea Wadman
Supervisor: Chaudhury
Research Areas: Social prescribing for underserved groups.
Myia Wilhelm
Supervisor: Chaudhury
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Research Areas: Dementia villages; dementia-friendly communities; environmental gerontology; the impact of the built environment on the quality of life of people living with dementia.
Sevde Yildirim
Supervisor: Sixsmith
Research Areas: Aging and technology; using technology to promote aging in place; the use of technology for healthy aging.
Esther Yuwono
Supervisor: Sixsmith
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Research Areas: Technology adoption and digital inclusion for older adults; cultivation of intergenerational relationships; active aging.