Health Promotion research

Age friendly communities

• Age-friendly attributes of a rural town in Aotearoa New Zealand (2023)
• Codesigning a Culture-Centered Age-Friendly Community for Māori Kaumātua: Cultural Principles and practices (2022)
• Beginning on an age‐friendly journey: Barriers to implementing age‐friendly initiatives (2021)
• Neighbourhood environments and intrinsic capacity interact to affect the health-related quality of life of older people in New Zealand (2020)
• “Engaging in my rural community”: perceptions of people aged 85 years and over (2018)
• Lessons Learned From a Canadian Province-Wide Age-Friendly Initiative: The Age-Friendly Manitoba Initiative (2014) 

Alcohol

• Gender differences in treatment outcomes for alcohol dependence among older adults (2004)
• Relapse Prevention and Maintaining Abstinence in Older Adults with Alcohol-Use Disorders (2002)

Cognition

• Association between physical activity and conversion from mild cognitive impairment to dementia (2020)
• The effect of cycling on cognitive function and well-being in older adults (2019)

Driving

• Older former drivers’ health, activity, and transport in New Zealand (2019)
  
• Driving Fitness in Different Forms of Dementia: An Update (2019)

Exercise and physical activity

• MoH Guidelines on Physical Activity for Older People (aged 65 years and over)
• The acceptability of physical activity interventions to older adults: A systematic review and meta-synthesis (2016)

Falls prevention

Steady As You Go©

• Impact of the 2020 New Zealand COVID-19 Lockdown on participants in a community-based, peer-led fall prevention program (2022)
• The Use of Peer-Led Community-Based Programs to Promote Healthy Aging (2017)
• Peer-leaders as volunteers: Their role in sustainable community groups (2016)
• Fall-Related Injuries in a Cohort of Community-Dwelling Older Adults Attending Peer-Led Fall Prevention Exercise Classes (2015)
• Long-Term Participation in Peer-Led Fall Prevention Classes Predicts Lower Fall Incidence (2014)
• Community Peer-Led Exercise Groups: Reasons for Success (2014)
• Evaluation of a Peer-Led Falls Prevention Program for Older Adults (2011)

Otago Exercise programme

• Tools to Implement the Otago Exercise Program: A Program to Reduce Falls (Second Edition 2023)
•  A cost–benefit analysis of three older adult fall prevention interventions (2015)
• Otago Exercise Programme to prevent falls in older adults (2003)
• Application of a Falls Prevention Program for Older People to Primary Health Care Practice (2002)
  
• Effectiveness and economic evaluation of a nurse delivered home exercise programme to prevent falls. 1: Randomised controlled trial (2001)

Falls prevention in New Zealand

• The benefits of Tai-Chi exercise on balance control in elderly during stair-to-floor transition (2018)
  
• Health Quality and Safety Commission New Zealand - Falls Atlas domain: falls in people aged 50 and over

Falls prevention internationally

• Progressive Resistance Training After Stroke: Effects on Muscle Strength, Muscle Tone, Gait Performance and Perceived Participation
  
• Interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community
  
• Progressive Resistance and Balance Training for Falls Prevention in Long-Term Residential Aged Care: A Cluster Randomized Trial of the Sunbeam Programme
  
• Evaluation of a Combined Cognitive-Behavioural and Exercise Intervention to Manage Fear of Falling Among Elderly Residents in Nursing Homes
• Effectiveness of progressive resistance strength training versus traditional balance exercise in improving balance among the elderly - a randomised controlled trial
• Effect of Tai Chi Exercise on Fall Prevention in Older Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
• Prospective observational cohort study on epidemiology, treatment and outcome of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in German BG hospitals

Health promotion fundamental documents and models

• Te Tiriti o Waitangi/The Treaty of Waitangi principles
  
• TUHA-NZ a Treaty Understanding of Hauora in Aotearoa-New Zealand
  
• The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
  
• Māori health models - Te Whare Tapa Whā
  
• Māori health models - Te Wheke
• Māori health models - Te Pae Mahutonga

Housing

• Reflections on Kaumātua, Pakeke and Seniors’ Housing (2022)
• Codesigning a Culture-Centered Age-Friendly Community for Māori Kaumātua: Cultural Principles and Practices (2022)
•  Report on Housing and Retirement among Pacific Peoples in Aotearoa (2022)
• Homeshare: An option to facilitate older homeowners to 'age in place' (2022)
• Pathways to Renting Among Older Former Homeowners (2021)
•  Ageing in place as an older tenant: Independence and Uncertainty (2021)
• Older Māori and aged residential care in Aotearoa Ngā kaumātua me te mahi tauwhiro o Aotearoa (2021)
• Shelter/housing options, supports and interventions for older people experiencing homelessness (2021)
• Universal Design for access into homes (2021)
• Home, Space and Place: A review of Māori and Indigenous literature contributing to dementia-friendly housing design (2019)
• The effect of housing on the mental health of older people: the impact of lifetime housing history in Whitehall II (2011)
• Housing and Disability: Future Proofing New Zealand's Housing Stock for an Inclusive Society (2007)

Nutrition

• MoH Eating and Activity Guidelines for New Zealand Adults
  
• Food and Nutrition Guidelines for Healthy Older People: A background paper
  
• Eating for Healthy Older People/Te kai tōtika e ora ai te hunga kaumātua
  
• Eating less the logical thing to do? Vulnerability to malnutrition with advancing age: A qualitative study
• Dysphagia risk, low muscle strength and poor cognition predict malnutrition risk in older adults at hospital admission

Wellbeing

• Spending at least 120 minutes a week in nature is associated with good health and wellbeing
• Health and Well-Being Benefits of Singing for Older People
• The art of life and death: 14 year follow-up analyses of associations between arts engagement and mortality in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing