MURA AGM & "Maintaining Good Health in Retirement" Presentation 2023

Special Presentation to the AGM: “Maintaining Good Health in Retirement”

Dr. Diana Sherifali, Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Heather M. Arthur Population Health Research Institute/Hamilton Health Sciences Chair in Inter-Professional Health Research, presented on her research about how to help people implement healthy changes to their behaviour. She calls her favourite tool for this purpose the “Tiny Habits” approach. She noted that though chronic non-communicable diseases like dementia, stroke, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases are a leading cause of global mortality, 80% of these can be prevented by healthy eating, physical activity, tobacco cessation and limiting harmful use of alcohol.