“It’s All About the Connection”: Digital and Physical Spaces for Mandarin and Punjabi-Speaking Older Immigrants in Calgary
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Abstract
Social isolation poses significant challenges for older immigrants, particularly those who face cultural and linguistic barriers in their country of settlement. Despite these challenges, little is known about how older immigrants facilitate social connections. This study draws from the Inclusive Communities for Older Adults project to explore how Mandarin and Punjabi-speaking older immigrants utilize physical and digital spaces to mitigate social isolation. Data from semi-structured interviews with 20 older immigrants in Calgary, Canada, was analyzed thematically using deductive and inductive approaches. Findings reveal that physical spaces, such as community centers, facilitate social connections and recreational activities among older immigrants while providing volunteering opportunities that enhance meaningful community engagement. However, challenges such as transportation barriers and harsh winter conditions limit access to these spaces, highlighting the need for more localized and accessible facilities. To overcome these challenges, participants relied on digital platforms to maintain social networks, plan activities, and engage in virtual bonding activities. This study underscores the importance of hybrid approaches integrating community-driven physical and digital spaces to alleviate social isolation in older immigrant populations. Hence, the study recommends culturally and linguistically responsive programming, digital literacy initiatives, and policy measures to improve accessibility and inclusivity of physical and digital spaces.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it