Norah Keating PhD

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.