Barbara A. Mitchell is a professor of gerontology and sociology at Simon Fraser University, was educated at the University of Waterloo (Honours BA, MA), and received a PhD in sociology from McMaster University in 1995. She holds a joint faculty appointment with the Department of SociologyAnthropology and the Department of Gerontology. She has taught several undergraduate and graduate courses over her career, including Introduction to Sociology, Sociology of the Family, Research Methods, Families Over the Life Course, Youth and Society, and Families, Communities, and Health. She also currently or has previously served on several editorial/advisory committees. Notably, she was the social sciences editor for the Canadian Journal on Aging (2011–2015) and she served as a consulting editor for the Canadian Review of Sociology (2011–2015). Her areas of interest are families and aging, life-course research, intergenerational relations, mixed-methods research (quantitative and qualitative), social policy issues, and health promotion. Recently, she was awarded as solo applicant and P.I. a 4-year SSHRC grant (2023-2027). This mixed-methods project will study family history and genealogy, ancestry searches, and the psychosocial impacts of DNA testing. She has solo-authored two books, in addition to numerous papers, chapters, and reports, with 2,543 citations on Google Scholar (November 2023), with an h-index of 30 and an i10 of 44 in these areas.

Boah Kim is a Ph.D. candidate in gerontology at Simon Fraser University. She obtained her master's degree in public health from Seoul National University and worked as a scientific researcher at the Institute of Dementia of the National Medical Center in the Republic of Korea. She is interested in health services research and continuity of care for older adults, especially focusing on multimorbid older adults and their informal caregivers.