Dr. Isabella Aboderin

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Senior Research Scientist

Dr. Aboderin is also Head of the Program on Aging and Development (APHRC) & Associate Prof of Gerontology at the University of Southampton.

Languages : English, German, French

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Isabella Aboderin is a Senior Research Scientist and Head of the Program on Aging and Development at the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) in Nairobi, Kenya, and an Associate Professor of Gerontology at the Centre for Research on Ageing, University of Southampton, UK.Isabella is the Regional Chair for Africa of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG), Technical Advisor to the Global Commission on Aging in Developing Countries, Member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Ageing, and Board Member of HelpAge International and the United Nations International Institute on Ageing (INIA). She also serves on the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights Working Group on the Rights of Older Persons in Africa.Isabella’s research and policy engagement center on a) illuminating the nexus between issues of ageing and core development agendas in Africa, with a focus on older adults’ socio-economic roles and intergenerational impacts, age-based inequalities in well-being, understandings of quality of life and resilience in old age, and health- and long-term care systems for older adults, and b) contributing to the development and consolidation of regional and national ageing policy and rights frameworks.Isabella holds a PhD from the School for Policy Studies from the University of Bristol, UK, an MSc in Health Promotion Sciences from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a BSc in Cellular and Molecular Pathology from the University of Bristol.

MEDIA APPEARANCES

How will a population boom change Africa?

BBC News

September 11, 2015

Isabella Aboderin is a senior research scientist at the African Population Health Research Centre in Nairobi and associate professor at the Centre for Research on Ageing, University of Southampton."Africa is a young continent. It will remain the youngest region worldwide. However... the number of older people is going to grow more rapidly in sub-Saharan Africa than in any other place on this globe...

Global Aging: 4 Myths Debunked

Forbes

June 16, 2015

One myth contrasts “positive African values with the West’s,” said Isabella Aboderin, a Senior Research Scientist and Head of the Program on Aging and Development at the African Population and Health Research Center in Nairobi, Kenya. This myth maintains that “in Africa, unlike the West, families wish to take care of and not abandon their elders,” said Aboderin...

Ageing and healthy environments

HelpAge International

May 30, 2013

The key note address from Dr Isabella Aboderin, a HelpAge board member, which focused on the power of evidence to support advocacy, as well as the importance of enhancing healthcare for older adults in Sub-Saharan Africa...

Contexts, motives and experiences of Nigerian overseas nurses: understanding links to globalization

Journal of Clinical Nursing

2007AIMS: Current understanding of the perspectives and experience of overseas trained nurses working in the UK and how these relate to conditions of globalization, is limited. This article (i) presents evidence on the contexts, circumstances and perspectives of Nigerian trained ...

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Modernisation and ageing theory revisited: current explanations of recent developing world and historical Western shifts in material family support for older people

Ageing and Society

2004Modernisation and ageing theory has provided the main platform for the debate on changes in family support for older people in both the industrialised and the developing worlds...

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Decline in material family support for older people in urban Ghana, Africa: Understanding processes and causes of change

The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

2004Objectives: Material family support for older people in Ghana, as in other African countries, has declined in recent decades, exposing increasing numbers especially of urban elderly to destitution and poverty. The nature and causes of this decline remain poorly understood, ...

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Compression of morbidity and active ageing: key priorities for public health policy in the 21st century

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

2002This section looks back to some ground-breaking contributions to public health, reproducing them in their original form and adding a commentary on their significance from a modern-day perspective. To complement the debate on global population ageing and its ...

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Stroke: the global burden

Health Policy and Planning

1995Stroke is a major global health problem. It is a major cause of mortality, morbidity and disability in developed and increasingly in less developed countries. Worldwide, it is the leading cause of healthy years lost in late adulthood, and evidence indicates that the ...

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