Snippets
September 23 Snippets
HOPE Scholar, Christine Roseveare won the best poster prize at the New Zealand Association of Gerontology Conference at University of Auckland earlier this month. Here is the abstract for the poster.
July 23 Snippets
HOPE Scholar, Josie Dixon works with a diverse range of researchers to develop a low-cost, non-invasive blood glucose monitoring method to increase compliance, accessibility, and thus, health outcomes for people living with diabetes.
June 23 Snippets
HOPE scholar Jenny Song has interviewed older Chinese people to gain a holistic understanding of their perceptions and experiences of ageing and health. Jenny is impressed by the various adaptive mechanisms that older Chinese people have employed to cope with the challenges they may encounter in a new cultural and social environment.
Inaugural HOPE Foundation Small Research Grant 2021
The HOPE Foundation funds a wide range of research areas including biomedical, clinical, public health and wider psycho-social aspects of ageing. This grant has been awarded to Karen Mumme for a research project, Assessing diet quality in older New Zealand adults and its association with metabolic syndrome and cognitive health.
University of Canterbury working on gentler and cheaper way to check for breast cancer.
Hope Scholar Jessica Fitzjohn's work in the spotlight.
Jessica Fitzjohn - Presentation - Breaking the wall of breast screening inequity
One of our scholarship recipients Jess Fitzjohn came third in a recent Royal Society Te Aparangi Falling Walls NZ Lab competition.
Choir Online is Better than No Choir At All!
Responses of Adults with Neurological Conditions to an E-Choir Initiative during Covid-19 Lockdown in New Zealand.
Presentation to Brain Cognition Emotion Music Conference UK by Auckland Univerisity Centre for Brain Research
Don't be a stranger on your street
Auckland gerontologist Professor Ngaire Kerse is the Joyce Cook Chair in Ageing Well at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. Here, she shares her thoughts on how to help our older relatives and neighbours feel less isolated during the Covid-19 crisis.
Research News
My House, Our House, Their House: A Case Study of Shared Social Housing for Older Women.
Robyn Barry PhD.
In 2013, a Community Housing Provider opened two specifically designed five bedroom houses for older women to share. The women rent their own bedroom, with an ensuite and deck, and manage the other communal spaces with each other. There was, and still is, widespread interest in what has been hailed as an innovative way of accommodating the increasing number of older renters for societies that are facing significant challenges with their ageing populations, loneliness and housing.
2019-20 Summer Students
These scholarships are awarded to support high achieving University students to do an ageing focused research project over the 10 week summer break. The aim is not only to achieve high quality worthwhile research, but also to enable these students to gain valuable skills, by working with experienced researchers, who supervise these projects. Due to the generosity of our sponsors, we have been able to award 3 Summer Scholarships to the University of Auckland and for the first time, we also have 2 Summer scholars from the University of Canterbury