Members and Associate Members hold faculty or senior research appointments at a university or health care facility and demonstrate academic excellence in gerontology or health research in general (e.g., multiple publications, substantial external grants)
Research Interests: Role of nutrition and exercise interventions in improving functional capacity and reducing falls in seniors in community and long-term care settings, injury/falls prevention, cross-cultural study of aging, health beliefs and practices, rural health, health planning process, food security
Research Interests: Aging, psychometric evaluation, long-term care, evidence based practice, pain measurement
Research Interests: Aboriginal health and aging research; elderly women’s health
Research Interests: Longitudinal data, multivariate statistics, robust estimation, quality of life, administrative data
Cluster Leader: Personhood and Resilience in Senior Care
Research Interests: Ethics and philosophy in health care organizational contexts (e.g., decision-making, organizational culture and climate).
Research Interests: Neurorehabilitation, stroke, brain injury, motor learning, motor control.
Clinical Interests: Community exercise and rehabilitation programming.
Research Interests: pain assessment among older adults in community, long-term care, and palliative settings; development and implementation of psychosocial treatment programs for pain among older adults; the relationship between fear of pain and fear of falling in younger and older populations; medical decision making among older adults; cognitive aging
Clinical Interests: The treatment of anxiety and depression using cognitive-behavioural interventions.
Research Interests: My primary research interests focus on the role of cultural connectedness for Indigenous peoples’ mental health and holistic wellness. My research projects use innovative blends of quantitative, qualitative, and Indigenous methodologies to increase the relevance of my research for Indigenous communities. I specialize in conducting strengths-based, trauma-informed approaches to community-based participatory research, and decolonized nature-based psychotherapy with Indigenous peoples.
Clinical Interests: Culturally-specific psychotherapy with Indigenous populations.
Research Interests: Osteroporosis, fragility, fracture, nutrition, physical activity and aging, health behaviour change, patient-oriented research, health promotion/health education knowledge translation.
Research Interests: Rural and remote dementia care, early assessment and diagnosis, barriers to use of services, and primary health care.
Research Interests: Healthy aging in place, Older adults quality of life, Black older adults social connectedness, Racialized older adults social connectedness, Cohousing community and older adults quality of life.
Research Interests: History, Theory & Philosophy of Psychology, Qualitative Research, Methods Research Ethics
Research Interests: Lifelong learning, health promotion, volunteerism, gerontology, cross cultural awareness, traditional medicine.
Research Interests: Nurses’ health, mental health, wellness, nurses’ work.
Research Interests: Nutrition, health sciences, musculoskeletal system and rehabilitation
Aging Studies Program Coordinator
Research Interests: long-term care, dementia care, palliative and end-of-life care, advanced practice nursing
Research Interests: Fear of pain, health psychology, ethics, fear of falling among seniors
Clinical Interests: Cognitive behavioural therapy, neuropsychological assessment
The CAH congratulates Dr. V. Puplampu (Faculty of Nursing) and her international team on their remarkable research and success as a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Aging Planning and Dissemination Grant recipient.
The team working on the project "Older Adults’ Experience of Vulnerability and Inequity in Recovering from the Pandemic’ were hosted by Dr. Puplampu on the U of R campus in May 2025.
We studied the impact of ageism and pain on pandemic stress among older adults. Our findings suggest that both ageism and pain influence pandemic-related stress, although ageism mediated pain's impact on pandemic stress. @UofRAgingCentre @gjgasmundson
In conjunction with the 2024 DO Hebb Prize for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science, I was asked to contribute a paper; its about the impact of paradigmatic shifts in health research @UofRegina @UofRAgingCentre
We studied the psychometric properties of the COVID Stress Scales (which are suitable for the study of stress related to other pandemics as well) in an older adult sample. @gjgasmundson @UofRAgingCentre
@DrThomasHadjist is kicking off the afternoon session at #CanadianPain25 on contemporary ethical challenges in pain research.
The 2024-2025 CAH Distinguished Public Lecture is now on YouTube!
"Live Long Die Short: Aging at the Intersection of Technology, Philosophy, and Purpose" with speaker Dominic Carter.
via @YouTube
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