Dr. Harbison is an Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie University’s School of Social Work whose research interests encompass the relationships between constructions of aging and older people’s rights, autonomy, and inclusion in society, from the perspective of critical theory. These interests have emerged from ongoing research on the provision of assistance to mistreated older people with her interdisciplinary team from social work, law, and sociology from Dalhousie and Saint Mary’s Universities in Halifax, Canada. Dr. Harbison is also a member of an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia investigating elderly exclusion in Nordic communities.
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