University of Saskatchewan (USask) post-doctoral fellow Dr. Cari McIlduff (PhD) has been awarded $45,000 from AGE-WELL and the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation (SHRF) to learn which technology and telehealth services older Indigenous people would like to use for support in leading a healthy lifestyle.
McIlduff is one of 21 early career researchers from 10 institutions across Canada who have been awarded the AGE-WELL graduate student and post-doctoral awards which are co-funded by AGE-WELL and SHRF. AGE-WELL is a federally funded Network of Centres of Excellence established in 2015 to support Canadian research and innovation in the area of technology and aging.
“Many Indigenous older adults would like to learn more about technology and recognize the value of technology in supporting healthy aging,” said McIlduff, who works with the Morning Star Lodge research team under the supervision of Dr. Carrie Bourassa (PhD), a professor with the USask College of Medicine.
“But as research at the Morning Star Lodge has previously found, not everyone has access to technology or knows how to use it. My research will assist with that gap.”
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