Cultural Perspectives of Ageing: Intercontinental Alliance for Integrated Care (IAIC) Inaugural Project is now recruiting!
The Intercontinental Alliance for Integrated Care (IAIC) is a global initiative launched by Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) to address healthcare challenges, particularly those related to aging populations and chronic diseases. In this project, the UBC IDEA Lab is collaborating with global researchers from Singapore, Thailand, China, Hong Kong, Britain, Brunei, and Canada to examine […]
Dr. Parveen Bhatti’s Research Group Explores How Our Neighbourhoods Affect Healthy Aging
Authors: Millie Baghela, Jaclyn Parks, Parveen Bhatti Title: The association of multiple built environment factors with a clinical measure of grip strength Summary: Grip strength is widely recognized as a simple but powerful measure of overall health and aging. Lower grip strength is associated with greater risk of chronic disease, disability, and even mortality. However, most previous […]
IDEA Lab Highlights Ethical Approaches to Using Social Robots in Long-Term Care
We are excited to share a new publication by Dr. Lillian Hung, Investigator at the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging, titled “Ethical considerations in the use of social robots for supporting mental health and wellbeing in older adults in long-term care,” published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI. As social robots like Paro […]
ELCHA Selected as a National Translational Geroscience Research Centre in Canada
The Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging (ELCHA) has received $335,000 from the Canadian Frailty Network and AGE-WELL to establish the ELCHA, in partnership with the Fraser Health Authority, as one of three national Translational Geroscience Research Centres across Canada, and the only such Centre in Western Canada. The growing field of geroscience posits […]
Dr. Stefan Taubert Publishes Breakthrough Study on How Cells Survive Starvation
We are excited to share that Dr. Stefan Taubert, an Investigator at the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging (ELCHA), has published a new study in Nature Communications on how cells survive when nutrients are scarce. How Do Cells Survive Starvation? When cells don’t get enough nutrients, they need to find ways to protect […]
Winners of the 2024/2025 Healthy Aging Postdoctoral Fellowship!
The Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2024/2025 Healthy Aging Postdoctoral Fellowship. This award supports outstanding postdoctoral researchers conducting innovative research relevant to healthy aging at UBC. By fostering early-career researchers, this fellowship contributes to advancing world-class aging research in British Columbia. See the 2 winners […]
Artists’ Night 2025: Celebrating the creativity of our finalists!
On January 10th, 2025, the Edwin S. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging (ELCHA) hosted Artists’ Night, an event that showcased the incredible creativity of local artists who were finalists of the Healthy Aging Visual Art Prize contest. The night was a celebration of art, community, and the power of creative expression to challenge perceptions of […]
Dr. Michael Kobor featured on CRAM Podcast!
What if your age has very little to do with your health and well being? Whether you’re 20, 40… or 80? Different kinds of epigenetic clocks can give us a window into our health and how old we biologically really are – and the future. Listen to Dr. Michael S. Kobor, the Edwin S.H. Leong […]
ELCHA Investigators Receive 2024 Michael Smith Health Research BC Awards!
Congratulations to Dr. Eli Puterman, recipient of the Michael Smith Health Research BC Reach Award! We are excited to announce that Dr. Eli Puterman, Associate Professor from the UBC School of Kinesiology and an Investigator at the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging (ELCHA), has received a Michael Smith Health Research BC Reach Award […]
2024/2025 UBC Healthy Aging Summer Student Research Award competition now open!
The UBC Healthy Aging Summer Student Research Awards are intended to support highly qualified undergraduate students from all disciplines and faculties who are interested in completing a research project that is relevant to the field of healthy aging. The award supports the student’s salary while they complete the research project over the summer (May to […]