Dr. Andree Ann Cyr
Associate Professor, Psychology, Glendon College
Dr. Tamara Daly
Director, York University Centre for Aging Research and Education (YU-CARE)
School of Health Policy and Management
Research interests:
Health equity for older adults through interdisciplinary lenses that address aging and long-term care, health and social care policy, formal and informal care systems, conditions of care and care work, and how gender and ethnicity shape access to health and social care.
Dr. Brad A. Meisner
School of Kinesiology and Health Science
Research Interests:
Challenging common misconceptions that ‘normal aging’ is associated with inevitable biological disease, psychological decline, social disengagement, and inactivity.
Dr. Gary Turner
Centre Co-Chair, York University Centre for Aging Research and Education (YU-CARE)
Department of Psychology
Research Interests:
The overarching theme of my research involves the translation of cognitive neuroscience research into brain and behaviour-based rehabilitation interventions to enhance higher cognitive (i.e. executive) functioning in healthy aging, acquired brain injury and brain disease – an approach I describe as cognitive rehabilitation neuroscience.
Dr. Mary Fox
School of Nursing
Research interests:
Comprehensive of function-focused interprofessional interventions to improve outcomes during older adults’ hospitalization. Her expertise includes qualitative and quantitative data analysis; systematic reviews; survey and intervention research; bedrest; and the Acute Care for Elders (ACE) model.
Dr. Rosanna Furgiuele
Department of French Studies, Glendon College
York University Retirees Association (YURA) Representative