Precarity, Aging and Risk in Later Life

Posted: October 2, 2024

A seminar by Drs. Amanda Grenier and Stephen Katz on precarity and risk in later life.

Precarity, Aging and Risk in Later Life Seminar. October 29th from 6pm until 8:30pm at Bagnani Hall, Traill College. Amanda (Shoulder Length Brown Hair) and Stephen (Short Dark and Grey Hair)

Event Details

Tuesday, October 29, 2024
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
City: Peterborough, ON
315 Dublin St
Building: Traill College
Room: Bagnani Hall
Cost: Free

In this seminar Amanda Grenier and Stephen Katz discuss the importance of precarity as a lens to identify the destabilizing forces shaping the lives of older individuals and their communities in the 21st century. In the first part, Dr Katz reviews endangerments to livability across the life-course from youth to old age. In the second part, Dr Grenier outlines experiences of disadvantage, inequality, vulnerability and exclusion in later life, with examples of frailty, homelessness and urban poverty from her research. Conclusions invite a conversation about precarious aging as well as altering social conditions in older people lives.

Amanda Grenier - Professor and the Norman and Honey Schipper Chair in Gerontological Social Work at the University of Toronto and Baycrest Academy for Research and Education. Dr. Grenier’s critical and interdisciplinary research focuses on aging and the life course, with specific expertise in aging and inequality, and funded projects on life course transitions, social constructs of frailty, social exclusion, precarity, and homelessness among older people. Dr Grenier’s work is published in leading academic journals as well as her books Transitions and the Lifecourse (2012), Precarity and Aging (2020), and Late Life Homelessness (2022). Current research focuses on issues of consent and research participation of people living with dementia and urban experiences of poverty among older people.

Stephen Katz - Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Distinguished Research Award recipient at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada, where he is a founding member of Trent's Centre for Aging and Society. Publications include books Disciplining Old Age (1996), Cultural Aging (2005), Ageing in Everyday Life (ed., 2018), and numerous scholarly and media publications on critical gerontology, aging bodies, health technologies, loneliness, memory culture and cognitive impairment. Currently he is working on a book project, Mind, Body and Self in Later Life; Essays and Collaborations.

Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you there!

Contact Info

Name: Taylor Reilly-Smith

Role: TCAS Administrative Assistant & Coordinator

Email: aging@trentu.ca