Blessing Ugochi Ojembe, MSW, Ph.D, RSW🇨🇦
@ojembeblessing
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba. Ageing, loneliness, Social inclusion, Black and racialized older adults. @CanCommSchols
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Joined June 2015
Yesss! Our long awaited article is out on CJA. “You’re Not Understood, and You’re Isolated”: A Narrative Account of Loneliness by Black Older Adults in Ontario, Canada | Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement | Cambridge Core -
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The findings highlighted some aspects of Black men and the need to embrace vulnerability.
📢 New publication alert! This narrative qualitative study explores how family devotion, care roles, and gender norms shape loneliness among Black older adults in Canada. 🔗 https://t.co/hbIk2ssOqr
#Aging #Loneliness #Equity #YorkU #BlackOlderAdults
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📢 Recruitment Ongoing! We’re inviting Black and other people of color aged 55+ and their family members (18+) with mobility tech experience to help co-create an AI-powered wearable for mobility. 💵 Compensation provided 📧 mkalu@yorku.ca #Toronto #Aging #YUResearch #YorkU
🌟 Participants Needed! 🌟 Help create a Culturally Appropriate Mobility AI-Powered Wearable (CAMAiW) tool for Black and people of color older adults. Led by Dr. Michael Kalu at YorkU. 📧 Contact: mkalu@yorku.ca or 289-788-4563 #Research #Mobility #YorkU #WearableTech #Aging
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Are you a social or health worker with 6+ months experience serving homebound Black older adults in the GTA? Join a 45–90 min interview to share your insights. 💵 Compensation provided! 📩 mkalu@yorku.ca | 289-788-4563 #BlackHealth #YorkU #GTA #Homebound
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Our latest study examines how older Black Canadians frame the (un)availability of social provisions and their impact on loneliness, emphasizing the importance of reliable social connections and highlights the disparities in access to these provisions. https://t.co/HKB7N5wuvB
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📷 Join the Centre on Aging for our next presentation! Feb 13 | 2:30 PM Register: https://t.co/IbK5xlzl8g Exploring the effects of loneliness, social isolation, & exclusion on the health and well-being of older black Canadians Dr. @ojembeblessing , Faculty of Social Work
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Don't miss this event with Katie Lewis, PhD; @ojembeblessing; @PRPietromonaco; and @niobe_way. https://t.co/9NfW6fcnfI
#ContinuingEd #MentalHealth
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We explored loneliness through the three-dimensional narrative lens. I hope you enjoy reading it as we enjoyed writing it.
Yesss! Our long awaited article is out on CJA. “You’re Not Understood, and You’re Isolated”: A Narrative Account of Loneliness by Black Older Adults in Ontario, Canada | Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement | Cambridge Core -
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Is anyone else getting fake participants volunteering for virtual interviews in Canada? It happened to me in Hamilton and my friend in London ON. It looks like this is becoming a common thing. How can we address this trend? How can we handle those transcripts? Just worried.
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It was awesome catching up with you @cagacg 2023. Thanks for all you do @Amanda__Grenier ❤️
Great catching up with these two former McMaster student superstars @ojembeblessing @Michael_Kaluebe @cagacg
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Great catching up with these two former McMaster student superstars @ojembeblessing @Michael_Kaluebe @cagacg
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Okay gerontologist, since this is likely to be the new trend, here’s a new line of research that will enable us perhaps change the wedding planning industry and mitigate ageism in this area of work.
cbc.ca
The wedding industry doesn’t cater to mature brides. So, when Christine Labaty walked down the aisle, she had to forge her own path.
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I know universities are always proud to claim the merit & glory when any of their alumni achieves a great success, not to mention a president of a significant country as Nigeria. The whole world will hear that news. If Tinubu is ur alumnus, celebrate him openly. Disgraceful CSU.
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My heart goes out to all the Indigenous peoples of Canada. Through their resilience, we learn that we can be survivors not victims. No one should have the privilege of telling another what culture is best for them. Live and let live.❤️❤️
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Thank you for doing this.❤️
This #ThesisThursday we're highlighting the work of @ojembeblessing, a doctoral candidate @McMasterU looking at loneliness among Black older adults in Canada @AgingLonely #HealthResearch
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I was glad to be a part of the ceremony. #BlackExcellence
It truly takes a village. Deep gratitude to the 60 student,staff and faculty volunteers who worked under the inspired leadership of @CareerCoach17 to give the graduating class of 2023 an unforgettable @MacBSSC Black excellence graduation celebration experience.
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