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2021 Research Spotlight: YU-CARE member Andrée-Ann Cyr and her colleagues have recently published an article entitled “Web-Based Cognitive Testing of Older Adults in Person Versus at Home: Within-Subjects Comparison Study”.

YU-CARE member Dr. Andrée-Ann Cyr and her colleagues have recently published an article entitled “Web-Based Cognitive Testing of Older Adults in Person Versus at Home: Within Subjects Comparison Study”. Their study found that older adults performed similarly on computerized tasks of memory and attention when performed unsupervised at home and supervised in the laboratory. These […]

A New Runner’s Success Story. This Is How I Did It at Almost 70.

Josh Rubin, Canada’s largest private retirement home operator wants to stop quarantining new residents – but experts say that could put seniors at risk Toronto Star, interview with Tamara Daly

The Star Article

Dr. Tamara Daly on the Libby Znaimer: CHARTWELL HOME OPERATOR WANTS TO LOOSEN COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS ON NEW RESIDENTS-SEPTEMBER 16 2020

Zoomer Radio Article

Are you OK, Boomer? Assistant Professor Brad Meisner wrote about intergenerational tensions on social media amid COVID-19 in Leisure Sciences journal

TaylorAndFrancisOnline Article

Faculty of Health Professor Brad Meisner collaborated on a joint statement of the Canadian Association on Gerontology and the Canadian Journal on Aging about the response needed to understand the impact COVID-19 has on older adults and aging in Canada

Cambridge Article

Coronavirus: Ontario’s worst hit nursing homes and who owns them By Stewart Bell and Andrew Russell Global News interview Tamara Daly, June 16, 2020

2020 Research Spotlight: Dr. Jaclyn Hurley new research study examined whether aspects of diet and nutrition risk explain variance in physical capacity and general health, after controlling for covariates, in Canadian adults with osteoarthritis (OA).

Dr. Jaclyn Hurley recently co-authored a study entitled “ Diet and Nutrition Risk Affect Mobility and General Health in Osteoarthritis: Data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, and published in the Journals of Gerontology: Series A. It shows how aspects of diet and nutrition risk are associated with physical capacity and general health in […]

2019 Research Spotlight: David A. Hood in the news discussing exercise and healthy aging

In recent months, YU-CARE member David A. Hood and colleagues have presented upon the relationship between exercise and the aging process. The research produced by Dr. Hood and his colleagues at the York University Muscle Health Research Centre is impactful along the themes of the physiology of aging and healthy aging promotion. This spring, Dr. […]

2019 Research Spotlight: Dr. Gary Turner presents cognitive aging in a new light

Research Summary In recent months, YU-CARE Steering Committee member Dr. Gary Turner from the Department of Psychology has significantly contributed to the study of the cognitive neuroscience of aging. Dr. Turner’s research uses MRI techniques to investigate how brain functioning is related to cognitive changes that occur in older adulthood. His recent studies expand beyond […]