Research
Health-relevant everyday social contexts in old age
Health-relevant everyday social contexts in old age
We document health-relevant correlates of positive and negative social contexts in older adults including social isolation, solitude, and loneliness.
Psychosocial contexts of stress physiology
Psychosocial contexts of stress physiology
We establish novel links between older adults’ stress physiology (e.g., as measured by salivary cortisol levels) and daily psychosocial experiences.
Long-term social and health transitions
Long-term social and health transitions
We use long-term longitudinal data, for example as collected by the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, to examine determinants of social and health changes in mid- to late-life.
Wearables to assess health-relevant parameters
Wearables to assess health-relevant parameters
We use portable devices and wearables to collect data on older adults’ psychological states, behaviour, physiological responses, and environmental context in real-time, as they go about their daily lives.