MIRA | Dixon Hall Centre
Working to empower people to live well, with dignity as they age.
Connecting to the needs of communities
The MIRA | Dixon Hall Centre is a unique partnership between the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA) and Dixon Hall, a multi-service agency focused on addressing poverty, social injustices and isolation across the lifespan, in Toronto’s downtown East. Created in April 2021, this collaboration brings together Dixon Hall’s expertise in providing comprehensive community-based client care and MIRA’s excellence in creating innovative research programs centred around aging and older adults.
Through short- and long-term projects that are responsive to the needs of older adults, the Centre is initially focusing on issues such as housing insecurity, barriers to transportation, transitions in care (such as from the community to hospital) and equitable access to digital technology for older adults.
If you are a MIRA member or trainee, or a community member or agency interested in getting involved with the MIRA | Dixon Hall Centre, please contact Gésine Alders (aldersgl@mcmaster.ca).
Visit this page for exciting updates about the MIRA | Dixon Hall Centre as they happen.
Dixon Hall Centre News
Related Projects
The MIRA | Dixon Hall Centre supports community-engaged research.
Dixon Hall’s rooming house initiative: Scoping the design and implementation of social housing in Ontario to inform priorities and practice
2024 MIRA | Dixon Hall Knowledge Synthesis Grant
The promotion and sustainability of digital literacy skills for marginalized older adults
2024 MIRA | Dixon Hall Knowledge Synthesis Grant
Videos
Updates and presentations on the work of the MIRA | Dixon Hall Centre, researchers and trainees.
Multimorbidity, frailty and delayed hospital discharge — MIRA Aging Research Spotlight
Related Funding
Opportunities for MIRA researchers and trainees to engage with our partner Dixon Hall and participate in community-engaged research.
The MIRA | Dixon Hall Centre is a partnership between MIRA and Dixon Hall, a multi-service agency focused on addressing poverty, social injustices, and isolation across the lifespan in downtown Toronto East. Knowledge Synthesis Grants will support the synthesis and mobilization of existing knowledge and the identification of knowledge gaps and opportunities related to the following themes identified as priority areas in consultation with staff, leadership, and other stakeholders from Dixon Hall:
- Loneliness, social isolation & emotional well-being
- Housing & aging in place
- Precarity, financial well-being & food security
- Physical & cognitive decline
- Ageism, vulnerability, & loss of agency
Successful proposals will include a comprehensive knowledge mobilization plan for disseminating findings, such as a knowledge mobilization forum, in-person workshops, videos, education materials, infographics or other knowledge mobilization approaches.
Applications due
- January 15, 2023
Award Values
- Up to $70,000 (over one year)
