Excited to share: Colleagues in community health, nursing, social work, urban planning and I are editing a Special Issue on "Dementia and Age-Equitable Planning: Analytics for Partnership" @tandfonline Abstracts due March 2025. Submission details below:

The EU @JPNDeurope has launched a new transnational call focused on health & social care for the moderate to late stages of neurodegenerative diseases. CIHR-IA is proud to partner on this initiative, more details coming to ResearchNet next month! Stay tuned!

Planning Practice and Research (PPR) @PlanningPracti1 Special Issue co-editors: Anthony Kupferschmidt @jarmin_yeh @doctormirza and @IncredibleHulko

Loneliness gives unique points of views #neurodiversity #zeitgeist

This photo is 3 years late but am still glad it happened! Presenting methods and outputs from the CIHR-IA Postdoc on Saturday 3.30pm @CIHR_IA #CEnR

Hear @MOSAICBC @JCCGV staff reflections on "Mutuality Among East Asian Diaspora at a Naturally Occurring Retirement Community in Metro Vancouver" this Friday! #GSA2024 https://t.co/FHIDLEhU1g Funded by @SSHRC_CRSH with support from @UnitedWay_BC #AginginPlace @BurnabyPL

@FrogHollowNH Check out Knowledge Mobilization videos: "Creating Digital Stories on Aging Experiences" (Poster 13) on Thursday with @DoctorMirza and the @IncredibleHulko @CityofVancouver @CityofKamloops @PHARR_Centre funded by @HlthResearchBC https://t.co/tGjVPYAPnA #GSA2024 #CEnR #KMb

Methods presentation: "Brain Health in Community: Involving and Collaborating With Communities Yielded Unexpected Innovations" with @FrogHollowNH to follow https://t.co/WWPDCQ9uX8 #GSA2024 #CEnR

Very excited to share "Digital Social Prescribing Lite: Addressing Barriers of Preventive Integrated Care through Community Engagement" (Poster 407) with Drs. @AHoverman and @KateMMulligan at #GSA2024 this Saturday!

Do we need more specialist or more generalist skills for the future? Some futurists predict that, in the age of AI, choosing to be a generalist will be a risky career move. Someone with broad, basic competence in multiple domains is likely to be overtaken by an AI language model.

Fantastic start to the Canadian Social Prescribing conference acknowledging Indigenous approaches to wellbeing with Elder Dr. Albert Marshall #CISP

Celebrating the last day of a CIHR postdoctoral fellowship which spanned 3 years with 4 major awards and 10 publications. Thank you @KateMMulligan, @FrogHollowNH and many mentor, co-authors and collaborators on the journey! 💙🧠👫👬

Great read: Lost in Translation: The Social Language Theory of Neurodivergence

Representing Canada at the Australian Social Prescribing conference -- keynotes from Drs. Kate Mulligan and Seth Kaplan! #EACH24

It was a pleasure to speak at #ISPC2024 yesterday. The main points I shared were: 1. From Needy to Needed: Emphasize the importance of community-led health and well-being by shifting the focus from viewing people who are supported as "needy" to recognizing them as needed. People

Thank you for your kind words. 🙏 #ISP2024

⏳ NOW JUST 3 WEEKS AWAY! Register: https://t.co/9XxnEN3BCK We look forward to welcoming you to this unmissable event! Secure your seats NOW. #EACH24 #SocialPrescribing #health #community #connect #Conference #wellbeing #mentalhealth @daniel_gry Dr Candice Oster @Flinders

Does nature-based social prescription improve mental health outcomes? A systematic review and meta-analysis. https://t.co/nyUY86U5Xx

#ICYMI Gerontology alumnus Anthony Kupferschmidt received the 2023 @SFU_CERi Community-Engaged Partnership Award! Learn more about Kupferschmidt's work supporting senior centres in BC: https://t.co/gXqxhNB0YC

Research is not a club, it is not for a select few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental building block of Canada that everyone has a stake in. Research improves our health, environment, innovation and economy. Time to invest in researchers, postdocs, and grad students.