Chairholder

Marie Beaulieu

Marie Beaulieu Ph. D. (Applied Human Sciences), M.Sc and B.Sc. (Criminology) is full professor at the Department of Service Social at Université de Sherbrooke and researcher at the CSSS-IUGS Research Center on Aging. She holds, since November 2010, the Research Chair on Mistreatment of Older Adults, funded by the Quebec government’s Department of the Family and Seniors. Social gerontologist, her main work representing 25 years of struggle in the field, addresses mistreatment, older adults’ security issues, ethics and aging as well as intervention in end of life situations. Marie Beaulieu is the North American representative at the INPEA (International Network for Prevention of Elder Abuse) and she serves on the Board of the CNPEA (Canadian Network for Prevention of Elder Abuses). She teaches and supervises in the Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Social Service as well as in the Ph.D. in Gerontology at Université de Sherbrooke, in addition to training practising practitioners and various groups of the public various audiences in Quebec, Canada and internationally.