Dr. Lynn McDonald

r. Lynn McDonald is Professor of Social Work, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and Director of the Institute for Life Course and Aging at the University of Toronto. Dr. McDonald is also the Scientific Director of the National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly (NICE), an international knowledge transfer network funded through a New Initiative Grant of the Networks of Centres of Excellence. In 2002 she was awarded the Governor General’s Golden Jubilee medal for her contributions to Canadian gerontology. Her research interests include work and retirement, violence against women and older adults, poverty and the homeless. Dr. McDonald has completed 5 funded research projects on the homeless and currently is doing a study of supportive housing for older adults in Toronto and Calgary funded by the National Secretariat on Homelessness. She has been a board director of the Canadian Association of Gerontology and served as Editor, Policy and Practice and Acting Editor, Social Sciences for the Canadian Journal on Aging. She also has been a board director of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, a member of the Board of Accreditation for the Canadian Schools of Social Work and a member of the CIHR Institute of Aging, Social Dimensions of Aging Committee.