For Adults & Older Adults
In this talk, Dr. Barlow will discuss her work partnering with the Older Adult Centres’ Association of Ontario's (OACAO) Links2Wellbeing: Social Prescribing for Older Adults project. Social Prescribing is a holistic approach to healthcare that brings together the social and medical models of health and wellness. It provides a formal pathway for health providers to address the diverse determinants of health, using the familiar and trusted process of writing a prescription. While in it's early stages in collaboration with student researchers, the partnership aims to answer the following research questions:
Presented in partnership with Wilfrid Laurier University.
About Dr. Meaghan Barlow:
Dr. Meaghan Barlow is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University. She received her B.Sc. in Psychology from Bishop’s University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology at Concordia University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests are broad, spanning lifespan, social, personality, and health psychology. More specifically, she researches: 1) self-regulatory factors that protect older adults’ well-being and health well into advanced old age, 2) the age-related structures, functions, and consequences of emotional experiences, and 3) the experiences, beliefs, and definitions of well-being across the adult lifespan. Visit www.meaghanbarlow.com for more details.
Programmer: Charlie
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