La médicalisation du vieillissement au Canada dans une perspective comparée
La médicalisation du vieillissement au Canada dans une perspective comparée
- Patrik Marier, PhD, Full Professor, Department of Political Science, Concordia University; Scientific Director, CRÉGES
The Chaire de recherche Antoine-Turmel sur la protection juridique des aînés and CREGÉS are pleased to invite you to a conference at which Professor Patrik Marier, Scientific Director of CREGÉS, will present his research on the medicalisation of aging. This work is the subject of an article entitled “The biomedicalisation of ageing policies: a comparative analysis of public administration and expertise in Canada, the United States and Sweden”, recently published in the Journal of Global Ageing.
This webinar is in French. Registration is free but mandatory. To register, please complete the registration form.
The medicalization of aging permeates public administration and public policy. This presentation argues that the extent to which aging policy is medicalized is highly dependent on the institutionalization of policy and the ubiquity of experts and health professionals in the policy-making process. The presentation consists of a comparative analysis of three countries (Canada, Sweden and the United States) with different administrative configurations and policy mixes regarding the elderly. The medicalization of aging expertise is dominant in Canada and the United States and less so in Sweden, while the delegation of responsibility for long-term care to municipalities and the continuing tendency to develop and incorporate social science expertise largely explain the Swedish result.
Read the article: Patrik Marier and Marina Revelli, The biomedicalisation of ageing policies: a comparative analysis of public administration and expertise in Canada, the United States and Sweden, (20-24) 1:1 Journal of Global Ageing 9-26.
This webinar is organized in collaboration with the Centre for Research and Expertise in Social Gerontology (CREGÉS).