Adebusola Adekoya

Assistant Teaching Professor

Nursing, Faculty of

Office 122

Moncton

a.adekoya@unb.ca
1 506 961 5027 



Part of the GAU/ able to supervise students

Education

  • PhD (Nursing), University of Waterloo (2025)
  • Visiting Postgraduate Research Student, University of Edinburgh, Scotland (2023)
  • MN, University of Manitoba (2018)
  • BN, University of Manitoba (2013)

Teaching and scholarly expertise

  • Gerontology/ Older Adult Health and Wellness
  • Communication
  • Pharmacology

Selected scholarships, grants and awards

  • Alzheimer Society Research Program/AGE-WELL Doctoral Award
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)
  • President’s Graduate Scholarship (PGS)
  • CIHR-Institute of Aging Summer Program in Aging
  • Kathleen Rowat Graduate Student Award (Canadian Nurses Foundation)
  • University of Waterloo International Experience Award
  • AGE-WELL Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Award in Technology and Aging
  • Ann C. Beckingham Scholarship (CGNA)
  • CAG Schlegel–University of Waterloo Research Institute for Aging Scholarship
  • Governor General’s Gold Medal Award, University of Manitoba (Nominated)
  • Manitoba Centre for Nursing and Health Research (MCNHR) Fort Garry Legion Poppy Trust Fund Research Grant
  • University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship Award (UMGF)

Research expertise

  • Aging
  • Dementia
  • Missing persons
  • Alert systems
  • AgeTech

Selected research and scholarly publications

Adekoya, A., Liu, L., Boscart, V., & Hirdes, J.P. (2025). Locating missing persons with dementia: Using Knowledge-to-Action Framework for implementation of alert systems. Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement, 1-13.

Wong, J., Wong, K; Wen, K., Adekoya, A., Wallsworth, C., Mann, J., Wong, L., Gregorio, M., & Hung, L. (2025). A qualitative study on virtual reality and psychosocial needs of residents living with dementia in long-term care. Digital Health, 11.

Adekoya, A., Daum, C., Miguel-Cruz, A., & Liu, L. (2025). A balancing act: Exploring ethical and legal concerns associated with release of personal information in alert systems for missing persons with dementia. BMC Medical Ethics, 26(56).

Ménard, A., Adekoya, A., Birchall, E., Seetharaman, K., Kervin, L., Koushambhi, B. K, & Baumbusch, J. (2025). Between Hope and future planning: The dementia journey for care partners through the lens of relational autonomy. BMC Medical Ethics, 26(39).

Adekoya, A., Daum, C., Neubauer, N., Miguel-Cruz, A., & Liu, L. (2025). Implications of public disclosure of personal information in a mobile alert app for people living with dementia who go missing: Qualitative descriptive study. JMIR Aging, 8 e64847.

Meng, C., Lachapelle, S., Adekoya, A., Kervin, L., Seetharaman, K., Basu Khan, K., & Baumbusch, J. (2025). Using a trauma-informed care approach to understand family caregivers’ experiences of accessing formal supports in dementia care. Journal of Family Nursing, 31(1), 3–15.

Adekoya, A.A., & Guse, L.W. (2021). Wandering behaviour in long-term care homes: Family perspectives. Perspectives, 42(2), 16-27.

Adekoya, A.A., & Guse, L.W. (2020). Walking interviews and wandering behavior: Ethical insights and methodological outcomes while exploring the perspectives of older adults living with dementia. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 19, 1-6.

Adekoya, A.A., & Guse, L.W. (2019). Wandering behavior from the perspectives of older adults living with mild to moderate dementia in long-term care homes. Research in Gerontological Nursing, 12(5), 239-247.

Thompson, G., Shindruk, C., Adekoya, A., Demczuk, L., & McClement, S. (2018). Meanings of ‘centredness’ in long-term care facilities: A scoping review protocol. BMJ Open. 8(8): e022498.

West, C., Rieger, K.L., Chooniedass, R., Adekoya, A., Isse, A., Karpa, J., Celeste, Waldman., Peters-Watral, B., Chernomas, W., Scruby, L., & Martin, D. (2018). Enlivening a community of authentic scholarship: Mentoring graduate students at the 2016 qualitative health research conference. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 17, 1-15. 

Book chapters, reports and policy briefs

Liu, L., Adekoya, A., & Miguel-Cruz, A. (2024, September 9). Canada needs a national silver alert program for older adults. Opinion piece in the Globe and Mail. (Online magazine).

Adekoya, A. (2022). Tensions between risk, autonomy, and health care settings. In L. Liu, C. Daum, N. Neubauer, A. Cruz & A. Rincón (Eds.), Autonomy and Independence: Aging in an Era of Technology (pp. 69-70). Morgan & Claypool Publishers.

Adekoya, A. (2022). Housing and care models to support older adults to remain in their communities. AGE-WELL/APPTA 2021-2022 Visions for Change Policy Challenge Report. 

Adekoya, A., Daum, C., Neubauer, N., McLennan, L., & Liu, L. (2021). Community alert systems for missing vulnerable adults: A call to action for policy makers [Policy brief]. Aging and Innovation Research Program, Faculty of Health, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.

Committees and volunteer work

  • Nursing Research Day Committee, University of New Brunswick
  • Leadership Team, International Consortium on Dementia and Wayfinding (ICDW)
  • Committee and Workshop Facilitator, St. John Ambulance Caregiver Support Program
  • Co-founder Manoah Children’s Initiative (Nigeria, Africa)

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