The COPE team at CAG 2025!
This year, the COPE team attended the Canadian Association of Gerontology conference in Montr茅al, Qu茅bec, Canada, from October 23-25, 2025. This year, the CAG theme was "Radical Relationality and Aging: Creativity, Community, Connection".
To be radical is to get to the root of an issue, signaling a commitment to examining foundations and precepts. Radical Relationality and Aging: Creativity, Community, Connection is a call to critically rethink and creatively explore how we work, play and age together. Radical Relationality and Aging is an open invitation to the disciplines that constitute the field of gerontology to light a spark, explore our interconnectedness, and recognize the intersectional complexities of the aging experience in this era of uncertainty. Our aspiration is to bring a diversity of communities and perspectives together to foster the ongoing realization of aging adults鈥� personal, social and creative potentials even as needs change over time.
This year, the COPE team had a number of members register as presenters:
Poster Session I: CIHR-IA Student Poster Competition (Masters Level) - Friday, October 24th, 2025.
Too Hot to Cope? Investigating the Association Between Heat and Depressive Symptoms in Later Life.
Gabriella Renuncio Bodanese, Aryana Mohammed, Victoria Michalowski, Theresa Pauly.
Feeling older when alone: Exploring the relationship between loneliness and subjective age, moderated by age stereotypes.
Aryana Mohammed, Gabriella Bodanese, Theresa Pauly.
Poster Session II: Student Posters - Friday, October 24th, 2025.
The Daily Impact of Anger and Sadness on Relationship Satisfaction: The Moderating Role of Partner Intimacy.
Sierra Birthelmer, Theresa Pauly, Maureen C. Ashe, Kenneth Madden, Christiane Hoppmann.
Oral Presentastion: Aging in a changing climate - Saturday, October 25th, 2025.
A Comprehensive Approach to Enhance Older Adults' Preparedness for Extreme Heat: COPE-Engage.
Cindy Wei, Atiya Mahmood, Huijin Zhu, Theresa Pauly.
