Karen Kobayashi, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and a Research Affiliate at the Institute for Aging and Lifelong Health at the University of Victoria. She is a social gerontologist who uses a life course perspective to explore the intersections of structural, cultural, and individual factors/experiences affecting health and aging in the Canadian population. She has published widely in the areas of family and intergenerational relationships, ethnicity and immigration, dementia and personhood, and health and social care. The majority of her research to date has been developed and carried out collaboratively in interdisciplinary teams, spanning disciplines in the social sciences, human and social development and medicine, and across a number of academic institutions and health care authorities. Her current research program examines the social, economic, cultural, and health dimensions of an aging population with particular focuses on: (1) the development of resources to address elder abuse in ethnocultural minority communities; (2) facilitation of access to health and social care services and programs for ethnocultural minority immigrant older adults; and (3) new and emerging family formations, such as living apart together (LAT), and the implications of changing family relationships for social support in later life.