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Karen Kobayashi, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department and a Research Associate at the Institute for Aging and Life Longevity at the University of Victoria. She is a social gerontologist who utilizes a life-span viewpoint to explore the crossroads of structural, cultural, and individual factors/experiences influencing health and maturation in the Canadian population. She has published substantially in the spheres of family and intergenerational connections, race and migration, dementia and individuality, and health and societal care. The majority of her study thus far has been formulated and conducted collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams, spanning disciplines in the societal sciences, human and societal advancement and medicine, and across various academic institutions and health care administrations. Her ongoing study plan examines the societal, financial, cultural, and health aspects of an aging population with specific focuses on: (1) the establishment of assets to handle elder abuse in ethnocultural minority areas; (2) facilitation of access to health and social care facilities and plans for ethnocultural minority immigrant older adults; and (3) new and emerging family configurations, such as residing separately together (LAT), and the effects of evolving family relationships for societal support in later life.