Anne Martin-Matthews is the Scientific Director of the Institute of Aging, one of 13 national Institutes of the Canadian
Institutes of Health Research, and is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her publications include books on Aging and Caring at the Intersection of Work and Home Life: Blurring the Boundaries (with J. Phillips); Widowhood in Later Life; three edited volumes (on methodological diversity, bridging policy and research on aging, and Canadian gerontology in international context) as special issues of the Canadian Journal on Aging; and papers on aging and health, intergenerational relations, social support, caregiving, work-family balance, and rural aging. Her current research examines the perspectives of home care workers, elderly clients and family caregivers on issues of health and social care. Anne, is a member of the editorial boards of Ageing and Society, the Journal of Aging Studies and the Policy Press series on ‘Ageing and the Life Course’. She is a Fellow of the
Gerontological Society of America and of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

Email: amm@interchange.ubc.ca