Amanda Grenier to speak on “Centering the Lived Experiences and Rights of Older Adults in Public Policy” at a Global Café hosted by the International Federation on Ageing (IFA)
Categories: Amanda Grenier, Faculty
Professor Amanda Grenier will be the featured guest at a Global Café hosted by the International Federation on Ageing (IFA), a Canadian-based NGO with members across 80 countries that is working to help shape and influence policy and practices that impact the world’s ageing population. In addition to having general consultative status at the United Nations, IFA is a non-State actor in official relations with the World Health Organization.
The Global Café with Professor Grenier will focus on “Centering the Lived Experiences and Rights of Older Adults in Public Policy.” Grenier will talk about what inspired her to pursue gerontological social work research, how aging is experienced across different intersections of the population, how she centres the lived experience of older adults in her research, and more.
An inter-disciplinary scholar focused on aging and the life course, Grenier joined the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work in July 2019 as the Norman and Honey Schipper Chair in Gerontological Social Work. She is also appointed to Baycrest Hospital. Previously she was a Professor in Health, Aging and Society, the Gilbrea Chair in Aging & Mental Health, and the Director of the Gilbrea Centre at McMaster University. Prior to that she was a Faculty member in the McGill School of Social Work.
Grenier’s research focuses on understanding the interface of public policies, organizational practices, and older people’s lived experience, with a particular focus on aging and inequality. She has led and participated in international, national, and provincial teams on aging and care, and carried out funded research on life course transitions, social constructs of frailty, aging with a disability, home care reform, and homelessness among older people.
Grenier is the author of Late-Life Homelessness: Experiences of Disadvantage and Unequal Aging, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.