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2012

Visram, A., Wilson, D.M.

Medications are beneficial for curing or managing acute and chronic illnesses. Medications typically have positive outcomes, although older people are prone to drug-related problems. Community-dwelling seniors are at particularly high risk of polypharmacy, as they tend to receive many...

2009

Berry, T. R., Plotnikoff, R. C., Spence, J. C., Clark, M., Stolp, S., Witcher, C., McCargar, L., Bauman, A.

Abstract: The purpose of this research was to evaluate television advertisements targeted at 55-70-year olds that promoted physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption. Awareness of the campaign, perceived credibility of the source, intentions to visit a promoted website, and intentions...

2013

Stewart, N., Morgan, D. G., Estabrooks, C. A., Norton, P., Squires, J. E., Poss, J. W., Doupe, M., Teare, G. F., Cummings, G. G.

Nursing homes have become complex care environments where residents have significant needs and most have age-related dementia. Building on research by Hirdes et al. (2011), we describe a resident profile in a representative sample of 30 urban nursing homes in the prairie provinces using Resident...

2007

Low, G., Molzahn, A. E.

A replication study was undertaken to validate a model of quality of life (QOL) generated in an earlier study on a random sample of 202 older adults. Pathways found to be significant were retested using QOL data from a convenience sample of 420 older adults. Using path analysis, we found that...

2015

Low, Gail, Stickland , Michael, Ross, Carolyn, Wong, Eric, Wilson, Donna

The prevalence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is growing, and people are living with this disease well into older age. Little is known about how people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease adapt to aging, particularly the physical changes of aging. According to the Identity...

2023-10-01

Low, Gail, Humbodlt, Sofia, Wilson, Donna, Gutman, Gloria, Gao, Zhiwei, França, Alex, Vitorino, Luciano, Allana, Hunaina

Good health promotion information is borne by sound evidence and advice from those who have walked a mile in older Canadians’ shoes.

Fall 2024

Panda, Sharmistha

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by central nervous system (CNS) lesions, resulting in axonal loss and physical and cognitive disability. Loss of myelin sheath known as demyelination, is followed by its regeneration in a process, known as remyelination, that...

Spring 2017

Abdualla, Radya Y

Von Willebrand Factor (VWF) is a multimeric adhesive glycoprotein that is exclusively expressed in endothelial cells (EC) and megakaryocytes. This procoagulant protein is involved in maintaining primary hemostasis and thrombus formation. However, there are pathological and physiological...

Spring 2020

Alaazi, Dominic A

The population of older adults in Ghana is growing rapidly, and is projected to increase two-fold over the period 2015 to 2050. Despite the unprecedented growth, not much is known about the living conditions and wellbeing of older Ghanaians, in part due to a paucity of research in this area. This...

2023-06-10

Md. Saiful Hoque, Patricia I. Dolez

High-performance fibers developed since the 1960s have a wide range of appli-cations including firefighters' protective clothing. Firefighters' protective cloth-ing made of inherently flame-resistant high-performance fibers offers excellentprotection in the new condition. However, these fibers...