ACT researchers will present as part of a panel titled Ageing, Communication, Technologies: Experiencing a digital world in later life at the upcoming conference of the Canadian Association of Gerontology (CAG) to be held in Montreal from October 20 to 22. The ACT panel will take place on October 22 at 3:15pm. The panel employs and explores […]
Shannon Hebblethwaite, Assistant professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences at Concordia University, will present her ACT-funded study on the uses of Facebook for family communication. This comparative case study brings together research on social media use, specifically Facebook, in Romania and Canada. The purpose of the study is to investigate how grandmothers communicate with […]
The Communication Networks & Social Change Research Group (CN&SC) and Aging2.0 in Barcelona is pleased to invite you to an open lecture offered by Prof. Feliciano Villar, member of the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Barcelona and coordinator of the Research in Gerontology Group (GIG). The talk will take place at IN3 at the […]
ACT partner institution, Ben-Gurion University in Israel, is seeking outstanding candidates for a PhD student position that entails conducting research on the topic of older adults’ interactions with robots. This position will be held in the Department of Communication Studies and the Center for Multidisciplinary Research in Aging of Ben-Gurion University. The deadline for applications […]
ACT has obtained funding to host an international intern through the Mitacs Canada Globalink program. This internship will take place at Concordia University in Montreal over three months in the summer of 2017. We seek a senior undergraduate student to work as a researcher within ACT in collaboration with plural actors in the Montreal community to find […]
ACT members Andrea Rosales, Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, Margarida Romero and Eugène Loos were involved in the Second International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population (http://2016.hci.international/itap), 17-22 July 2016, Toronto, Canada. They organized and chaired the following invited sessions: New media in the everyday life of older people and Silver Gaming. They also presented several papers, published by Springer; J. Zhou & G. Salvendy (Eds.) […]
Right now, Canada has more people over the age of 65 than under the age of 15, and in 40 years, seniors will make up one quarter of the country’s population. Terms like “silver tsunami” alongside headlines like “Baby boom to ageing gloom” indicate the negative light that is often cast onto this demographic shift. […]
The 2016 edition of the WAM Summer School took place June 23 and 24 at the University of Gloucestershire in the UK. Read our Storify account here.
The recent Statistics Canada Study on Women in Canada features a chapter on older women, titled Senior Women. The report, published in March 2016, features data as recent as 2015 and provides comparative analyses of various topics, including demographic trends, internet use, employment rates of older women and social participation. Summary points are available in the press release and […]
To mark World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, elders make waves towards an age friendly city. On Thursday June 9th, Montreal-based groups RECAA, Union United Church and Le Groupe Herencias/Encounters project will join forces with their partners to bring community awareness to the importance of an age friendly city in preventing elder abuse. Starting at 11 am, […]