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- A Comprehensive Approach to Enhance Older Adults鈥� Preparedness for Extreme Heat
- Aging in the Right Place
- Championing Older Adults for Leadership in Environmental Sustainability and Climate Empowerment
- Dementia-inclusive streets and community access participation and engagement
- Gerontology Research Centre
- Inclusive Environments Lab
- Lifelong Health and Wellbeing Lab
- Precision Mental Health Lab
- STAR Institute
- The Family Genealogists and Long-Lost Relatives Study
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Graduate Students
PhD Students
Nosaiba Fayyaz
Supervisor: Mahmood
Research Areas: Housing; homelessness; older adults; and aging in the right place.
Shreemouna Gurung
Supervisor: Chaudhury
Research Areas: Examining the implementation and impact of relationship-centered care for ethnocultural minority older adults in long-term care settings.
Shawna Hopper
Supervisor: Cosco
Research Areas: Social isolation; mental health; cognition; longitudinal analyses.
Samantha Teichman
Supervisor: Mitchell
Research Areas: Grief, death and dying; families and carework; communication technologies as care.
Becky White
Supervisor: Fang
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
Research Areas: Dementia care; long term care; person-centred approach; meaningful engagement.
Letitia Zhu
Supervisors: Mahmood
Research Areas: Art-based methods; community-engaged research; and technology with a focus on older adults with disabilities.
MA Students
Ancilla Akomeah
Supervisor: Wister
Research Areas: Elder abuse and neglect ; occurrences; risk factors; effects and preventive strategies.
Gabriella Bodanese
Supervisor: Wister
Research Areas: Mental health and aging; climate change impact in older adults; family and community as a protective factor for the elderly.
Alex Dong
Supervisor: Chaudhury
Research Areas: Alzheimer's and dementia; palliative care.
Mayana Fontenele
Supervisor: Cosco
Research Areas: Ageism in media narratives; digital inclusion of older adults; active aging; and community participation.
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
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
Margaret Ovenell
Supervisor: Fang
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: Mitchell
Research Areas: Early-stage dementia and educational initiative in long-term care centers
Marissa Stalman
Supervisor: Chaudhury
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.
Hope Stenhouse
Supervisor: Fang
Research Areas: Autonomy versus safety in institutional care settings.
Elise Stone
Supervisor: Fang
Research Areas: Green space; gardening; and climate change.
Cristal Villamor
Supervisor: Mitchell
Research Areas: Late-life immigration鈥檚 impact on older adults鈥� well-being; health promotion strategies for culturally diverse older adults; intergenerational relationships.
Myia Wilhelm
Supervisor: Chaudhury
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.