Denise Cloutier

Denise Cloutier

Professor, Department of Geography Fellow, Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health

University of Victoria

Bio

Denise Cloutier is a Professor in the Department of Geography, and a Research Fellow with the Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health at the University of Victoria. As a community-engaged health geographer and health services researcher her work focusses on both vulnerability and resilience on subjects ranging from healthy aging in community, to supportive housing and environments for individuals who may be living with dementia, stroke-affected, socially isolated, at end of life, homeless, and those living in rural communities. She is a mixed methods researcher and her interdisciplinary work is funded by CIHR, SSHRC and the MSFHR, and published in leading gerontology and geography journals. She is a recent Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, and she is a recent recipient of the Provost’s Community Engaged Scholar Award - University of Victoria (2019-2023).