The meaning or lack of meaning that old age takes on in any given society puts that whole society to the test, since it is this that reveals the meaning or lack of meaning of the entirety of the life leading to that old age. In order to judge our own society we have to compare the solutions it has chosen with those adopted by others through space and time.
Simone de Beauvoir (1970)
Project
Our focus is two-fold: understanding equity, aging and care work in international contexts; and identifying international promising practices and policies to support age-equity and age-inclusion. We were funded in 2018 for 7 years by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant. Our research builds from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “Age-Friendly Communities” global … Read more Project
Team
This experienced, international team is unique in its focus on equity-oriented research at the intersections of aging and care work. Our aim is to identify promising practices that change policy and practice level conversations to advance and support age-inclusion and age-equity. Tamara Daly, Project Director, is a Professor at York’s School of Health Policy & … Read more Team
Communities
We are investigating age-friendly “communities within communities” at the individual, organizational, city, country and global levels. Twelve international city case sites have been selected for their diversity and their age-friendly initiatives. Seven Canadian Cities Five International Cities
Imagining Age-Friendly “communities within communities” 