Norah Keating, PhD

Contact

Email: nkeating@ualberta.ca

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Gerontology Families and Ageing Global Social issues on Ageing

About

Norah Keating holds academic appointments in 3 world regions: University of Alberta, Canada; Swansea University, UK; North-West University, South Africa. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, The Gerontological Society of America and the UK Academy of Social Sciences. In 2017 she was awarded the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics Presidential Award for the global reach of her international work.

Research

Professor Norah Keating is a social gerontologist whose theoretical and empirical research has created evidence, challenged discourses and influenced policy in global, social and physical contexts of ageing. She has placed this work on the international stage through the Global Social Issues Ageing which fosters collaboration and critical thinking about ageing at the interfaces of regional issues and global trends.

Social contexts of ageing. Professor Keating has created evidence of the extent and consequences of family care; and has contributed to conceptual innovation in lifecourses of family care. This body of work has made family care and its consequences visible and has challenged discourses of family care as normative, ideal and cost free. Her extensive interactions and consultations with governments have brought to policy makers attention the fragility of the family care sector sector and have contributed to legislation and programs to support family carers.

Community contexts of ageing. Professor Keating’s longstanding program of theoretical, empirical and policy work on ‘place’ has challenged beliefs about rural communities as good places to grow old and has informed the global agenda on age-friendly communities. Her seminal theoretical work on Critical Human Ecology Theory provides a template for reducing inequalities and improving quality of life of older people through determining the ‘best fit’ between older persons and the places where they live.

Global contexts of ageing. Professor Keating’s research and critical analyses of key global contexts and trends have brought her international prominence and opportunities to build collaborative structures and processes. She challenges gerontologists to focus on macro trends such as climate change, economic recession and political instability to increase visibility of their disproportionate influence on older persons.

Featured Publications

Neighborhood environments and intrinsic capacity interact to affect health related quality of life of older people in New Zealand

Allen, J., Stephens, C., Keating, N., Szabo, A., and Alpass, F.

Maturitas, Special issue: A global approach to healthy ageing. . 2020 September;

Policy to reduce late-life social exclusion: from aspirations to action

Keating, N. & Cheshire-Allen, M

In K. Walsh, T. Scharf, S. Van-Regenmortel and A. Wanka (eds). Social Exclusion in Ageing Societies: Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives, Springer.. 2020 September;

Care to older adults with chronic health problems.

Keating, N. & Donalds, S.

In C. Rojek (ed). Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd edition. . 2020 September;

Global contexts of rural ageing: Informing Critical Human Ecology Theory

Keating, N., Eales, J., Phillips, J.

In Skinner, M., Winterton, R. and Walsh, K. (Eds). Rural Gerontology: Towards Critical Perspectives on Rural Ageing, Routledge Studies in Gerontology/Ageing Series. . 2020 September;