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Seminar Dr. Michelle Porter, “Mobility and aging – from older drivers to autonomous shuttles”
February 19, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Biography:
Michelle Porter is the Director of the Centre on Aging at the University of Manitoba, a position she has held since 2015. She is also a Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management. Dr. Porter is a leader in the age-friendly university movement and was instrumental in UM becoming one of the world’s first age-friendly universities (Canada’s first). She holds executive positions with provincial and national organizations, including the Transportation Options Network for Seniors (TONS) in Manitoba. For several years she has been involved with an international research team studying older drivers. Her aging-related work spans ageism, quality of life in long-term care, WHO’s healthy aging action plan, age-friendly environments, and an international project in artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles. Michelle’s BPHE (Laurentian University), MSc (Community Health, University of Toronto) and PhD (Kinesiology, UWO) were capped by a multi-site MRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Boston and Scandinavia. Michelle is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.
Abstract:
Dr. Porter’s presentation will briefly cover several studies she has been involved with related to mobility and aging, and more specifically she will highlight findings from studies of older drivers. To start the first section of her presentation will describe a framework for thinking about mobility and aging, and what needs to be considered. Next, she will show findings from studies of older drivers involving education, technology, as well as longitudinal changes in driving across time and in various scenarios. Finally, in this section of the presentation she will briefly outline a new study that has just started on modeling systems using artificial intelligence and autonomous on-demand shuttles for older individuals with mobility impairments.
The second section of her presentation will provide an overview of the Centre on Aging at the University of Manitoba. One aspect that she will cover in more detail is some work that the Centre has done on communicating about aging.
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