Webinar Series

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Purpose

The overall aims of the webinar series are to highlight the research on aging at McMaster University
across several health research topic areas and disciplines, with a focus on patient engagement tools and
resources and the impacts of patient-oriented research in aging.

Objectives

1. Enhance the awareness, knowledge and skills of diverse audiences (e.g. researchers, community
   partners involved in research, older adult research partners, trainees, health decision-makers, other
   OSSU Centres) to conduct patient-oriented research in aging.
2. Facilitate partnerships and collaborations across diverse audiences and showcase ongoing
   opportunities for multidisciplinary research and engagement opportunities in aging.
3. Simulate a virtual panel discussion and create an interactive online discussion for diverse audiences to
   share their perspectives, successes and challenges as well as key results in all aspects of their research
   in aging, implementation of research in aging, and patient engagement tools and frameworks on
   research in aging.
4. Foster knowledge generation, exchange and translation across multiple research areas in aging and
   for diverse audiences, with a focus on capacity building, patient-oriented research, and issues in equity,
   diversity and inclusion.

Target audience

Researchers and trainees. Not exclusive of diverse audiences including other OSSU Centres and SPOR-
funded entities, researchers from other institutions, older adult research partners, community partners,
knowledge users and stakeholders interested in research in aging and patient-oriented research in
aging.

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Past Webinars:

Engaging and partnering with older adults in the MIRA Collaborative: implementation and evaluation

Pivoting a large-scale aging research initiative due to the COVID-19 pandemic