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AGE-WELL and Mitacs are pleased to announce the recipients of their COVID-19 co-funded awards. The partnership supports technology-based approaches that mitigate challenges faced by older adults and/or their caregivers in the context of COVID-19.

Twenty-one early career researchers from ten institutions across Canada have been selected to receive AGE-WELL Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Awards in Technology and Aging.

Dr. Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, a postdoctoral fellow in linguistics and languages at McMaster University and Brock University in Ontario, sees the effect of social isolation and loneliness in the language that seniors use.

Able Innovations, a Toronto startup working on an automated patient-transfer technology, has won the second competition in the three-part AGE-WELL National Impact Challenge.