As people age can religiosity play an active role in later-life health?
Global Aging and Community Initiative
by Global Aging and Community Initiative
3M ago
On-going population aging and increasing longevity has intensified the focus on behavioral and modifiable factors that can promote later-life health. Within this context, religiosity has emerged as a significant area of interest due to its associations with various health outcomes, including morbidity, psychological well-being, recovery from illness, and mortality. Reviewing these factors this paper, “Linking ..read more
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Dr. Zimmer’s Research Highlighted
Global Aging and Community Initiative
by Global Aging and Community Initiative
1y ago
Watch CTV News Atlantic | Local News Video | Top Headlines feature Dr. Zachary Zimmer who talks about his global research on aging https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/mobile/video?binId=1.1145518 ..read more
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Dr. Zimmer and Colleagues Present International Scientific Conference on Health Research on the Elderly in Vietnam
Global Aging and Community Initiative
by Global Aging and Community Initiative
1y ago
Dr. Zachary Zimmer and a number of his international collaborators held a dissemination seminar for the “Vietnam Health and Aging Study,” in Hanoi, Vietnam on July 4, 2023.  The seminar was held at the Hanoi Medical University. There were over 50 attendees from various sectors including medical, government, academia, and the press. Dr. Zimmer and other speakers provided background and presented key study findings. The study examines the long-term impacts of the war stress and trauma experienced during the Vietnam War in the 1960’s and 1970’s on aging and health of the current generation o ..read more
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Global Study of Pain Prevalence published in PAIN journal
Global Aging and Community Initiative
by Global Aging and Community Initiative
2y ago
A global study of pain prevalence across 52 countries: examining the role of country-level contextual factors was published in the International Association for the Study of Pain, September 2022 by Zimmer, Zachary, Fraser, Kathryn, Grol-Prokopczyk, Hanna and Zajacova, Anna ..read more
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Congratulations Dr. Zimmer
Global Aging and Community Initiative
by Global Aging and Community Initiative
2y ago
On May 20, 2022 as part of spring convocation at Mount Saint Vincent University, Dr. Zachary Zimmer, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair and Director, Global Aging and Community Initiative was presented with the Award for Research Excellence ..read more
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Poster Presented at recent PAA conference At the r...
Global Aging and Community Initiative
by Global Aging and Community Initiative
2y ago
Poster Presented at recent PAA conference At the recent Population Association of America (PAA) conference Dr. Zachary Zimmer presented a poster called, Inequality within inequalities: a multi-country comparative study of the effect that wealth has on pain prevalence. The poster was created with help from Kathryn Fraser, Daniel Powers, Anna Zajacova and Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk. PAA took place April 6-9, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia ..read more
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Seeking Summer Research Assistant
Global Aging and Community Initiative
by Global Aging and Community Initiative
2y ago
We are seeking applications for a summer research assistant to work on projects, funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research and the National Institutes of Health. Click HERE for details ..read more
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Post Doctorate position in Social Epigenetics and/or Biological  Demography
Global Aging and Community Initiative
by Global Aging and Community Initiative
2y ago
The Global Aging and Community Initiative is seeking applications for a postdoctoral position on a project funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research. Click HERE for more details ..read more
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GACI receives SSHRC funding for international workshop
Global Aging and Community Initiative
by Global Aging and Community Initiative
3y ago
The Global Aging and Community Initiative is pleased to announce that we received a SSHRC Individual Connection grant (approx. $24,000 CAD), which will assist in organizing and conducting a two-day international workshop titled “Workshop on Health Expectancy: An Educational, Training and Networking Opportunity for Early-Career Scholars”.  This is planned as a as a pre-conference workshop to the 33rd REVES AGM 2022 which will take place at Dalhousie University in September 2022.  We will soon be sending out a notice for application to the workshop, but please contact us for ..read more
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Does war hasten aging?
Global Aging and Community Initiative
by Global Aging and Community Initiative
3y ago
A new paper by Zachary Zimmer, Kim Korinek, Yvette Young, Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan, Tran Khanh Toan, highlights research into “Early-Life War Exposure and Later-Life Frailty Among Older Adults in Vietnam: Does War Hasten Aging?“and was recently published in the The Journals of Gerontology ..read more
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