Aging Team
Our Focus
Canada’s population is rapidly aging. The population of senior citizens – those age 65 and older – is expected to more than double over the next two decades. This demographic change will place great demands on the continuum of care. Research in the Aging Team at KITE is focused on devising solutions that can ease pressure on the health system, provide additional services and supports, and assist independent living and aging in place.Our Goals
Addressing the needs of older adults and their caregivers.Ongoing Studies
- Advanced technologies for improving pain care in older adults with dementia
- Ambient monitoring to frequently assess falling risk and reduce falls and fall related injuries in long-term-care
- Preventing falls on icy surfaces with advanced winter footwear and training interventions
- Understanding tripping risk on outdoor walkways through measurement of minimum foot clearance
- Preventing pressure injuries
- Developing standards for improving accessibility
- Preventing back injuries in caregivers
- Reactive balance training for improving safe mobility
- Developing robotic prosthetic legs and exoskeletons for older adults
- Investigating the link between asthma, sleep apnea and heart failure in older adult
- Location tracking-based health status indices for clinical support (STICS)
- Developing smart glasses to assist older adults with vision loss
- Developing digital technologies to assess sleep apnea in older adults
Upcoming Events
TBD - Aging Team annual retreat
Past Events
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May 13, 2024 - Aging team joint clinical/research lunch and learn session on Aging in the Community
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Feb 12, 2024 - Aging team joint clinical/research lunch and learn session on falls
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Nov 10, 2023 - Kite Aging Team kick-start meeting
Recent Publications Highlights
- V. Adeli, N. Korhani, A. Sabo, S. Mehdizadeh, A. Mansfield, A. Flint, A. Iaboni, and B. Taati. Ambient monitoring of gait and machine learning models for dynamic and short-term falls risk assessment in people with dementia. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE JBHI), Vol. 24, No. 7, pp 3599-3609, Jul 2023.
- Gabison S, Pupic N, Evans G, Dolatabadi E, Dutta T. Measuring Repositioning in Home Care for Pressure Injury Prevention and Management. Sensors. 2022 Sep 16;22(18):7013.
Scientist Members
Aaron Yurkewich
Howard Abrams
Karen Gordon
Michael Kalu
