The PHARR Centre conducts community-driven, population health research informed by interdisciplinary innovation and lived experience to improve the health equity of rural older adults, including rural older adults living with dementia and their care partners.

Guided by a social-ecological approach, the PHARR Centre conducts population health research to improve rural older adults’ quality of life at the individual, community, policy, and societal levels. The Centre’s interdisciplinary team works collaboratively with rural community leaders, clinicians, older adults, people with lived experience, students, and policymakers to develop innovative solutions to support rural older adults.

The PHARR Centre’s four main research areas include:

•      Rural Aging in Place and Dementia Care

•      Cognitive and Physical Health

•      Stigma and Social In/Exclusion

•      Navigation of Health and Social Care