Affiliation

Professor, University of Alberta

Address

Professor and Co-director Research on Ageing, Policies and Practice
Department of Human Ecology
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB
Canada T6G 2N1
 

Contact

norah.keating@ualberta.ca

+780 492-4191 (work); +780 904-8117 (mobile)

Biosketch

Norah Keating is professor of Family Studies and Co-Director of Research on Ageing, Policies and Practice in the Department of Human Ecology at the University of Alberta. She also is Director of the Global Social Initiative on Ageing, which addresses the intersections of population aging and globalization and their impact on families, liveability and care of older adults. Her research interests are in normative and non-normative issues faced by families as they grow older and in the physical and social contexts that can include or exclude. She has longstanding interests in ageing in rural ageing, family caregiving, social exclusion of older adults and age-friendly communities.

Key research/capacity building interests

Research Interests

• Families and ageing
• Rural ageing
• Costs of care to individuals, families and society
• Social exclusion

Capacity Building Interests

• Training of new scholars
• Fostering cross national research in social issues of population ageing
• Creation of state of knowledge documents on families, liveability and care

Key methodological skills

• Survey methodology
• Case studies
• Focus groups
• Systematic reviews

Current/planned research

• Economic Costs of Care to Family/Friend Caregivers
• Employed Carers
• Social Inclusion of Persons with Dementia
• Liveability of Older Persons in South Africa
• Quality of Life and Services of Older Persons in Australia and Canada
• Property Law and its Impact on Liveability of Older Persons

Current engagement in capacity building

• Director, the Global Social Initiative on Ageing
• Member, International Working Group on Rural Ageing
• Member, International Working Group on Social Exclusion