In this podcast from the Trent Centre for Aging and Society, recorded on October 29th 2024, 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.
Amanda Grenier is 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.