Amanda Grenier is Professor and Norman and Honey Schipper Chair in Gerontological Social Work in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and a Senior Scientist at the Baycrest Academy for Research and Education. She has been appointed Director of the Institute for Life Course & Aging.
Before joining U of T she was a professor at McMaster University, where she held the Gilbrea Chair in Aging and Mental Health and was the inaugural Director of the Gilbrea Centre for Studies in Aging. Her research looks at frailty, care, social exclusion and dementia, with a focus on marginalization.
She is the author of Transitions and the Lifecourse and Late Life Homelessness, and co-editor of Precarity and Aging.
Reported from University of Toronto Appoints Professor Amanda Grenier as Director of the Institute for Life Course & Aging (Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work news, September 18, 2026).
More from the original reporting: socialwork.utoronto.ca/news/university-of-toronto-appoints-professor-amanda-grenier-as-director-of-the-institute-for-life-course-aging/