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In this week we are covering Chapter 2, Traversing the cityscape: locating age-friendly, age inclusion and age equity, authored by Tamara Daly and Tesia Wood. This chapter takes a deep dive into global ageing and health paradigms—the ideas and assumptions that influence everything from public policy and social programs to the types of care older adults…

Our teams book AGEING EQUITABLY WITH CARE has been published on open access! The book is a carefully curated and edited book by team that covers the learnings from our project, the communities we have worked with and our partners. Each week we will be highlighting a chapter for our community. This week we are…

Christine Streeter (PhD, Carleton University’s School of Social Work) is a social work scholar with practice-based experience in international community programming, program evaluation with youth-serving and non-profit organizations. Her research examines the emotional and structural conditions shaping care work in Canada’s non-profit social service and long-term care sectors, with projects on unpaid care work, labour…

As we age we may be asked to consider our “quality of life”, but how useful is this metric-laden term beyond medical settings? This video is designed to prompt conversation, re-thinking and re-imaginings of what it means, both individually and collectively, to enjoy “quality” lives across the world and across our life course.