Marie Beaulieu
MARIE BEAULIEU, Ph. D., MSRC/FRSC
Codirector, World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre, Elder Abuse
Holder of the Research Chair on Mistreatment of Older Adults, University of Sherbrooke, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, School of Social Work
AND Research Centre on Aging, CIUSS Estrie-CHUS
Marie Beaulieu, Ph. D. (Applied Humanities), M.Sc. et B.Sc. (Criminology), is a full professor at the University of Sherbrooke’s School of Social Work and researcher at the CSSS-IUGS’s Research Centre on Aging. Since November 2010, she has held the Research Chair on Mistreatment of Older Adults, funded by the Government of Quebec’s Ministry of Families
Marie Beaulieu is a social gerontologist whose main body of work over the past 30 years has dealt with combatting abuse, older adults’ feeling of security/insecurity, ethics and aging as well as ageism. Marie Beaulieu is the North American representative of INPEA (International Network for Prevention of Elder Abuse); she is a member of the City of Montreal Police Service Elderly Persons’ Watchdog Committee and has been a member of the National Council of Seniors since 2013. She is involved in the Bachelor’s and Masters programs in Social Work as well as in the Doctorate program in Gerontology at the University of Sherbrook, in addition to training working practitioners. She works with various populations in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada, not to mention abroad. Throughout her career, she has received several awards. In 2012, she earned the Mérite estrien along with. Suzanne Garon in the category Social Innovation for Roll-out of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Age-Friendly Cities. In 2013, she was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of her numerous commitments towards older adults. In 2017, Marie Beaulieu was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada for her excellent university and scientific achievements in the area of combatting mistreatment of older adults.