ILCA Online Seminar: Making and remaking a sense of home amidst later life homelessness

While there are concerns about homelessness and accommodation insecurity in later life, scholarly understanding of whether and how older people currently in homelessness can achieve a sense of home remains underdeveloped. This talk will explore the role of personal agency and environmental conditions in how older people in Ireland perceive and construct a sense of home, amidst aging, homelessness and insecurity across the life course.

Kieran Walsh is Professor of Ageing & Public Policy in the Discipline of Economics, and Director of the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG), within the Insitute for Lifecourse and Society, at the University of Galway. His research focuses on ageing in place, social exclusion in later life, and older people’s lived experience of major life transitions and inequality. Kieran was the Chair of the ROSEnet COST Action research network on ‘Reducing old-age social exclusion’ (2016-2020), a 200 member network across 41 countries, and is currently Scientific Coordinator of the Marie-Sklodowska Curie doctoral training network on ‘Advancing research and training on ageing, place and home ‘- HOMeAGE.

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