A re­searcher at The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (The UWI), St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus, has co-au­thored what the uni­ver­si­ty de­scribes as a land­mark study ex­am­in­ing how In­do-Caribbean peo­ple in Guyana and Trinidad and To­ba­go de­fine pos­i­tive ag­ing.

The study, ti­tled Be­yond In­de­pen­dence: Be­liefs About Pos­i­tive Ag­ing Among In­do-Caribbean Peo­ple in Guyana and Trinidad and To­ba­go, was pub­lished in The Geron­tol­o­gist, the flag­ship jour­nal of the Geron­to­log­i­cal So­ci­ety of Amer­i­ca.

Dr In­drani Bachan-Per­sad, Unit Head of Eco­nom­ic En­gage­ment and In­dus­try Part­ner­ships at The UWI, was among five au­thors of the re­search, which in­volved col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween the In­ter­na­tion­al Ex­ec­u­tive School in France, The UWI and Shar­da Uni­ver­si­ty in In­dia.