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A HOPE Scholar graduates - congratulation Dr Slade
Congratulations to HOPE Scholar (2021), Dr Cassandra Slade on her recent graduation.
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.
Summer Student Research Report - Oliver Scott
Costs of inpatient hospitalisations in the last year of life in older New Zealanders: a cohort study
My research is part of the Life and Living in Advanced Age cohort study in New Zealand. Due to an ageing population globally and in New Zealand, health systems may be challenged by increasing health related needs in this group. Despite this, little is known about Māori and non-Māori of advanced age in New Zealand, even though population predictors estimate a trebling of the number of Māori, and a doubling of the number of non-Māori in the next 10 years.
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.