Disability & Aging: International Perspectives

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Katie Aubrecht
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Postdoctoral Fellow, Mount Saint Vincent University

Tamara Krawchenko
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

Keywords

disability, aging, interdisciplinary, international, social policy, population aging, lifecourse perspective

Abstract

This issue of RDS features eight original articles and art which analyze how disability and aging appear in research, policy and everyday life. Contributors to this international collection use interdisciplinary perspectives to explore the complex relationship between disability and aging, and challenge disability and age related myths and misconceptions.

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Vol. 12 No. 2 & 3
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Author Biographies

Katie Aubrecht, Canadian Institutes of Health Research Postdoctoral Fellow, Mount Saint Vincent University

Dr. Katie Aubrecht is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Postdoctoral Fellow.  Her research uses critical disability studies theory and phenomenological and interpretive sociological methods to trace and historically situate the relations between institutional organization and subject formation. Current research explores the meaning of the experience of dementia, and how individuals’ social identities and status as human beings are produced within the context of institutionalized dementia care. Dr. Aubrecht has published numerous peer-reviewed book chapters and articles in RDS, Studies in Social Justice and Seniors Housing & Care, and has guest edited a special issue on translations of happiness in Health, Culture and Society. 

Tamara Krawchenko, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

Dr. Tamara Krawchenko is an inter-disciplinary and multi-method public policy researcher and educator. She has researched a wide range of topics--climate change, population, aging, intergenerational equity--all bound up in the perennial questions of how governance (and public policy) matters and how it can be improved upon. Her work is grounded in historical institutionalism, political economy and the politics of scale. She currently works as a policy analyst at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris.