The following research themes and cross-cutting approaches and frameworks have been identified as strengths and priorities of healthy aging research at UBC.
Crosscutting Approaches and Frameworks
Life Course
Conducting research across the entire life course — from conception to old age — to understand the factors that influence aging trajectories
Interdisciplinary
Transcending traditional disciplinary boundaries to apply an integrative and holistic approach to healthy aging research
Collaborative
Bringing together members of the UBC community and researchers and institutions abroad to answer big and complex scientific questions
Community Engaged
Promoting knowledge exchange to design informed research studies and translating findings to influence research, policy and practice
Research Themes
Gerosciences
Understanding the genetic, molecular and cellular changes that occur with aging and that make aging a risk factor for chronic health conditions and diseases.
Society-to-Cell
Understanding how environmental, cultural and social factors throughout the life course influence the aging process and health and well-being in the later years.
Prevention & Intervention
Investigating strategies to keep people healthy and living in their own communities longer into older age.
Age-Associated Diseases
Understanding the mechanisms of disease onset and progression to inform new strategies for diagnosis and treatment.