Dr Kofi Awuviry-newton

Statement for HDR students Dr Kofi Awuviry-Newton seeks to supervise HDR applications with a broad focus on Gerontology and Geriatrics, social work, and Public Health. He specifically welcomes research proposals that apply either mixed-method, qualitative or quantitative methods. This includes proposals that seek to use any secondary data including, but not limited to, the WHO global Study on adult health and AGEing (WHO-SAGE) and Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA). Specifically, areas of research include (but not exhaustive): • Hospital (medical or health) social work • Decolonisation of social work approaches • Food insecurity and ageing • Financial insecurity and ageing • Unmet health needs of older adults • Unmet social care needs of older adults • African migrants’ (older adults and family) health and social care • Toileting disability and functional disability • Lived experiences • caregiver health and social care needs • elder abuse and elder neglect • Adverse Childhood experience and elder abuse victimization nexus • Mental health • Long-term care (institutional and community-dwelling) • Older prisoners and ex-military personnel health and social care needs • Neighbourhood social cohesion • Gerontechnology • Housing conditions and long-term care needs • Household energy use and functional disability • Technology and caregiving • Heterogeneity of attitudes, values and preferences toward caregiving, services, and support • The changing needs of family caregivers over the trajectory of caregiving • Where across the trajectory of caregiving should technology best be integrated?