Kathryn Fraser, a Master's student in the Applied Human Nutrition program at Mount Saint Vincent University, and who works with Dr. Zimmer created the poster to present at the conference.
Presentation on Chronic Pain
On October 3, 2019, Dr. Anna Zajacova presented "Chronic pain as a powerful summary measure of population health" at the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Science Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington. The presentation outlines why chronic pain should be considered an important measure of population health and well-being.
Presentation at SHARE User Conference
The presentation, "Trends in the prevalence of pain among adults aged 50+ across Europe, 2004 to 2015" was given at the SHARE User Conference on September 19, 2019 in Budapest, Hungary. The research uses SHARE data to compare trends in pain between 2004 and 2015 across 15 countries, and indicates patterns of rising pain prevalence … Continue reading Presentation at SHARE User Conference
Presentation at the “Frontiers on Aging and Health Research” Workshop
Dr. Zimmer traveled to Xi'an, China in September 2019 to present at the Workshop on "Frontiers on Aging and Health Research" and the "Population and Development Policy" Lecture Series . He presented research conducted in collaboration with Dr. Chi-Tsun Chiu on "Living Arrangement Trends among China's Oldest and Extreme Old".
Doctoral candidate wins “Best Presentation Award”
Benjamas Penboon, a doctoral candidate with the Global Aging and Community Initiative and the Institute for Population and Social Research at Mahidol University in Thailand, won the "Best Presentation Award" at the International Conference on Population and Development held in Paris, France in June 2019 for the paper "Migration and Provision of Support to Left-Behind … Continue reading Doctoral candidate wins “Best Presentation Award”
Presentation at REVES 2019
Presentation given at the annual REVES conference on the "Socio-economic Correlates of Life Expected in Degrees of Frailty". The objective of this paper is to examine transitions in frailty and compute life expected across degrees of frailty by socio-demographic characteristics commonly found to distinguish healthy aging. Frailty, defined as the extent to which multidimensional physiological … Continue reading Presentation at REVES 2019
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