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IDEAS TO ACTION
Understanding and Preventing
Problem Gambling in Seniors
The Problem Gambling Research Group and the Council on Aging,
Windsor and Essex County, have jointly undertaken a community
based project to understand and prevent problem gambling in
seniors. A presentation of the methodology and preliminary results
is available.
This presentation was given by
Richard Govoni and Deana Johnson at the
17th Congress of the
International Association of Gerontology.
Project Funding
This project has been funded by a grant from
The Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre, Guelph, Ontario.
Ideas to Action Project Team
G. Ron Frisch Ph.D. (Principal Investigator)
is the Director of the Problem Gambling Research Group
and Professor of Psychology at the University of Windsor. Within the
gambling field, he has a special interest in problem gambling in older
adults and issues of prevention, identification and diagnosis of gambling.
He has been a member of the Think Tanks on Youth Gambling Issues at Harvard
and McGill Universities, serves as a reviewer for a number of publications
and granting agencies, and is Chair of the Board of the Ontario Problem
Gambling Centre in Guelph, Ontario.
 
 
 
Richard J. Govoni, Ph.D. (Co-Investigator) is the Associate Director of the Problem Gambling Research
Group and Assistant Professor, Adjunct at the University of Windsor. Over the last five years he has
developed and managed three
major surveys that have tracked the effects of increased
gambling availability on gambling behaviour in the Windsor community.
He has an interest in community-based research and in research with seniors.
 
 
 
Deana Johnson MHK (Co-Investigator) is the Consulting Executive
Director of the Council on Aging, Windsor and Essex County. She
has many years of experience in gerontology, facilitation and strategic
planning, and community development. She is the Past-President of the Ontario
Gerontology Association.
 
 
 
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