A5009029580- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Older Adults Driving Studies
- Technology Use by Older Adults
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Social Sciences and Governance
- Frailty in Older Adults
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Transportation and Mobility Innovations
University of Toronto
2012-2024
Baycrest Hospital
2019-2024
McMaster University
2012-2020
Fraser Institute
2020
University of Dundee
2020
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
2020
Hamilton Health Sciences
2015-2017
McGill University
1998-2015
Université du Québec à Montréal
2015
Université de Montréal
2015
Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are changing our world through their impact on sectors including health care, education, employment, finance, law. AI systems developed using data that reflect the implicit explicit biases of society, there significant concerns about how predictive models in amplify inequity, privilege, power society. The widespread applications have led to mainstream discourse perpetuating racism, sexism, classism; yet, ageism been largely absent...
Approaches to ageing that are organised around productivity, success, and active late life have contributed views of dementia as an unsuccessful, failed or 'frailed' old age. Operating through dominant frameworks, socio-cultural constructs organisational practices, the 'frailties' body mind often used mark boundaries health illness in life, shape responses accordingly. Our concern is both taken for granted 'imagined' can further marginalise persons who occupy locations disablement. This...
The way frailty is conceptualised and interpreted has profound implications for social responses, care practice the personal experience of care. This paper begins with an exegesis concept frailty, then examines dominant notions including how ‘frailty’ operates as a ‘dividing-practice’ through classification those eligible definitions uses in three discursive locations are explored in: (a) Oxford English Dictionary , (b) international research literature, (c) older women's accounts their...
Driving cessation, often due to health-related changes, can be a particularly challenging and troublesome transition in older adulthood that lead social isolation. While policy makers have long recognized the potential impact of an aging population on Canada's health care national pension plans, transportation needs adults received relatively less attention. For residing small towns rural areas who rely, more than not, personal automobile there is usually limited or no access public...
The concept of ‘frailty’, as used within public health and social services, represents a powerful practice where cultural constructions, the global economic rationale cost restriction biomedical focus on ageing collide inscriptions bodies older women. This article draws complex forms resistance witnessed three separate studies: narrative interviews semi-structured participant observation in community organizations with women Montreal Boston. Findings reveal how exercise ways, both...
ABSTRACT Contemporary discourses on ageing promote active participation as an ideal framework from which to encourage and support older people's health, independence life satisfaction. But is such a vision of meaningful and/or accessible all adults? This paper explores how people with disabilities understand the notion social participation, juxtaposing their accounts key trends found in policy. Insights individual interviews collective writing project conducted adults Quebec who were living...
Abstract The concept of frailty provides access to key health and social care services. While professionals charged with implementing standard assessments generally agree on what constitutes frailty, lay understandings make a crucial distinction between ‘being’ ‘feeling’ frail. the imposition medical/functional classification (being frail) emotions related impairment, traumatic events, maintaining continuous identity (feeling reveal how that which is commonly considered ‘frailty’ plays out...
Homelessness among older people in Canada is both a growing concern, and an emerging field of study. This article reports thematic results qualitative interviews with 40 aged 46 to 75, carried out as part mixed-methods study who are homeless Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Our participants included histories homelessness (n = 14) persons new later life 26). Interviews focused on experiences at the intersections aging including social relationships, challenges living streets shelters life, future....
Academics and professionals who aim to understand plan for aging societies are most often younger than study participants the benefactors of social programs themselves. However, appropriateness such intergenerational practice is beginning be questioned. It has been suggested that only older people should conduct research, consult on people. To benefits pitfalls an approach, research encounters between will used as examples from which explore question: what happens when individuals attempt...
Over the last decade, public home-care services for elderly people have been subject to increased rationing and changes in resource allocation. We argue that a social exclusion framework can be used explain impacts of current policy priorities organisational practices. In this paper, we use highlight disadvantages experienced by people, particularly those who cannot afford supplement care with private services. illustrate our argument drawing on examples from previous studies persons giving...
Health interventions are currently being revamped to address the specific needs of chronic illness and population aging. In this context, focus has increasingly turned Alzheimer-type dementia, an that is considered mobilize a large number social actors into long-term involvement varying intensity. Linkage problems between families professional systems have been well documented, yet reasons for remain relatively unexplored. article, we outline how used network data narrative methods better...
Population aging and longevity in the context of declining social commitments raise concerns about disadvantage, inequality, well-being older people. In this short piece, we use concept precarity as a lens to understand new sustained forms insecurity that affect late life, illustrate how these risks, when experienced over time relation conditions such austerity, can deepen disadvantage.