Norah Keating’s career has been devoted to family research and family practice and to informing and challenging thinking about families across the life course. She has masters’ degrees in Developmental Psychology and in Marriage and Family Therapy, and a PhD in Family Studies. Her current academic appointments are at universities in three world regions: University of Alberta, Canada; Stirling University, UK; and North-West University, South Africa. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences; the Academy of Social Sciences (UK) and the Gerontological Society of America.
Her professional appointments have included Chair of the Board of Directors of the Vanier Institute of the Family; President of the Canadian Association on Gerontology and Chair of the North American Region of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics. She is Director of the IAGG Global Social Issues on Ageing.
Recent publications on families include a research agenda to frame the action items on families and communities for the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing; on Megatrends and Families for UNDESA for the 30th Anniversary of the UN International Year of the Family and on family caregiving in sub-Saharan Africa.