Fear of falling (FoF) can profoundly affect the quality of life (QoL) of older adults. Despite extensive literature on individual-level medical and psychological factors and behavioral interventions in mitigating FoF, very little attention has been devoted to a holistic inquiry, particularly on the under-researched socio-economic, demographic, and relational factors of FoF and its outcomes. This project aims to fill in these gaps in health research.
Funders: This project is funded by VISTA Fellowship at York University, Samuel Clark Research Funds at Western University, and EPIC-AT Fellowship with the AGE-WELL Network.
This is a new project I'm doing at York University. I'm creating R packages that will help time use researchers to create interactive time use visualizations on their own. Too often d3 visualizations and other JavaScript libraries are difficult to implement if you don't know web-development. So, I decided to simplify the process and transfer everything into R packages. Check out some blogs, and more information is coming soon.
My primary research focus is on gender inequality and time use. In my work, I investigates the intricate dynamics of housework and gender, exploring factors such as economic resources, educational attainment, and gender egalitarian attitudes. My research extends globally, comparing gender inequality in time use in different countries, particularly in East Asian and North American societies.
The gendered pattern of dividing household tasks persists into older age and retirement. This three-year project, "Gender Inequality in Retirement: Understanding Social Organization in Domestic Tasks," responds to the above gap in theoretical knowledge. It aims to understand the mechanisms that shape gender inequality in domestic work among retired Canadians in opposite-sex couples. The project explores the following questions. How do older married and cohabiting adults divide and share domestic work in retirement? What are the main mechanisms behind their division and sharing of household work?
Funders: This project is funded by the SSHRC Insight Grant.
