Human Resources committee  Of course. That is actually an excellent question. That is the big question in the research field and we are certainly not going to get to the solutions today. At the beginning of my presentation, I mentioned that it took years before truly effective measures were in place to c

Human Resources committee  Thank you for that excellent question; it truly reflects the paradox of our society. It is true that women can expect to live up to 85 years and men up to 79 years. Life expectancy is constantly going up. We can be proud of the medical advances and the fact that we can live ever

Human Resources committee  I will be quick because, in a way, I will be finishing up what my colleague Sarah has just mentioned. Once again, it is a matter of the rhetoric we use. What does being overqualified mean? When we have a big labour shortage and when young people often come along loaded down with

Human Resources committee  I do not have the answer to that broad question. To echo what my colleague has just said, the pressing needs and problems of older workers are not currently being addressed. In my opinion, all workers really need is to be able to go through their careers with the mindset of lifel

Human Resources committee  I'm almost done.

Human Resources committee  I only have a minute left. We know that psychological disengagement opens the door to physical disengagement. Ageism has negative consequences to which very little attention is paid. A worker who disengages psychologically then disengages specifically by preparing for a retireme

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you all for your invitation. My name is Martine Lagacé. I am an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa, but I am a psychologist by training. I am a social psychologist, in other words. In dealing

Human Resources committee  I'm sorry about that. That's the bad side with a professor.

Human Resources committee  I will slow down the pace a little. The research that my colleagues and I have been conducting for twenty years or so shows that one of the major obstacles to the participation, integration and retention of older workers in the labour force is the matter of negative age-based st