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The Comprehensive Approach to Enhance Older Adults’ Preparedness for Extreme Heat (COPE) study combines the lived experiences with scientific knowledge to co-create practical strategies for heat resilience—empowering older adults to better prepare for a changing climate.

The AIRP Project evaluates innovative solutions to support older people who are experiencing homelessness and is aimed at building capacity and knowledge to bridge the gaps between research and practice and promote policies that are proven to support aging in the right place for older people.

The COALESCE project centers around older adults in climate research and action - co-creating resilient, age-friendly communities through lived experience, collaboration, and justice-driven solutions.

The DemSCAPE Project is an interdisciplinary community-based research project that engages people living with dementia and their care partners in Metro Vancouver and Prince George to discover what barriers exist in the built environment and what improvements can be made through guidelines for dementia-inclusive communities that can be used by policymakers, decision-makers, and the public.

The GRC serves as a focal point for research, education, and information on individual and population aging and maintains an active publications program to promote utilization of existing knowledge.

The Inclusive Environments Lab explores housing, neighbourhoods and built environment through various lenses such as mobility, accessibility and participation for older adults and people with mobility, sensory and cognitive disabilities. Through shared tools and sites, the lab aims to create extensive body of knowledge for inclusive environments.

The Lifelong Health and Wellbeing Lab investigates how psychosocial factors shape health and wellbeing across the adult lifespan using an interdisciplinary approach focusing on bio-behavioural pathways linking social relationships to health.

Precision Mental Health (PMH) is a transdisciplinary team of researchers whose mission is to apply a stakeholder-informed, evidence-based, data-driven, and tech-enabled approach to identifying and supporting the mental health of individuals across the course of life in Canada and globally.  

The STAR Institute supports the development and implementation of technologies to address many of the health challenges encountered in old age, as well as address the social, commercial and policy aspects of using and accessing technologies.  

The Family Genealogists and Long-Lost Relatives Study examines the experiences of diverse midlife to older aged adults (aged 55+) who have searched for, and located a previously unknown immediate or closely related genetic relative through DNA testing or databases.