After training in occupational therapy, clinical research (geriatrics and rehabilitation) and in public health (promotion of health), Professor Levasseur developped a vast research program on the development and evaluation of a continuum of innovative interventions to promote social participation in the elderly. These interventions include the Personalized Citizen Support for Community Integration or l’Accompagnement-citoyen personnalisé d’intégration communautaire (APIC), the Lifestyle Redesign® Program and the Index to Potential Social Participation (IPSP) or l’Indice du potentiel de participation sociale (IPPS). To facilitate social participation in the elderly in a different way, other innovative interventions aim to stop agism, stimulate the elderly on a social level with the help of robotics, develop mutual assistance between citizens and revitalize the downtown areas and make them more inclusive.

Keywords

social inclusion, community integration, collectivity, participative research, situations of exclusion and vulnerability