The Faculty of Health offers the first collaborative PhD program in Canada with a focus on aging, health and well-being. The doctoral program is an interdisciplinary platform to develop a broad understanding of the issues related to the health and well-being of our aging population. This doctoral program is an interdisciplinary platform to develop a broad understanding of the issues related to the health and well-being of our aging population. Students can register in any departmentschool in the Faculty of Health, utilizing an interdisciplinary platform upon which to develop a broad understanding of issues related to the health and well-being of our aging population. The Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies acknowledges that we live and work on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes ten kilometers on each side of the Grand River. As we continue to work remotely, we acknowledge that individual members of the department may reside on other native lands.