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April 2017

McCormack Professor Nina Silverstein On Innovative Care For Patients With Dementia

Nina Silverstein was one of 40 experts worldwide who contributed to a ground-breaking new study of innovation in dementia treatment, prevention and care across the world’s largest developed countries.  “Dementia has no borders,” said Silverstein, a professor of Gerontology at… Continue Reading →

UMass OLLI Director Wichian Rojanawon on a Career in Lifelong Learning

Wichian Rojanawon launched a new lifelong learning program at the University of Massachusetts Boston with modest resources in 1999. Now the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UMass Boston is the largest among many lifelong learning programs in the state. But… Continue Reading →

McCormack Associate Professor Elizabeth Dugan Sworn in to Governor’s Panel on Aging

Elizabeth Dugan was sworn in Wednesday with other members of the new Governor’s Council to Address Aging in Massachusetts, created to develop plans for improved public and private support of healthy aging in the state. Dugan, an associate professor of… Continue Reading →

AARP Honors McCormack Professor, Two Gerontology Alumni

How would you make Social Security stronger? That was the challenge AARP issued to policy researchers last year.  Two of the five ideas recently selected as the best in a flood of responses came from a professor at the McCormack Graduate School… Continue Reading →

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