New and Noteworthy

In this week’s chapter, our authors Sienna Caspar and Kelsey Berg take a closer look at what it really means to build “dementia-friendly” communities and how those ideas fit within (or sometimes get lost inside) the broader push for age-friendly spaces. They start with an important question: are dementia-friendly initiatives actually adding something meaningful to age-friendly frameworks, or are…

In this week’s chapter our authors, Elias Chaccour and Tamara Daly, look at what it actually means to grow older across borders, focusing on diasporic families living between Lebanon and Canada. Drawing on existing research, the authors explore how ageing is shaped by both Eastern and Western cultural norms, care systems, and expectations around family and…

This week, in this chapter, our authors Susan Braedley, Karine Côté-Boucher, and Renate Ysseldyk draw on three empirical studies with older immigrant women in Ottawa, Canada, to explore how care shapes their lives both in what they provide and what they need. They begin by asking an important question: How are arrangements of paid and unpaid care…