Throughout her career in aging services, Stacey Minchello, MS ’23, has seen plenty of growth and change in the community-based supports industry. She wholeheartedly believes that community support assists our older adults to remain in the community. The recent COVID… Continue Reading →
The UMass Boston Department of Gerontology welcomes Sung S. Park, PhD, as our newest faculty member. Park is a sociologist and social demographer interested in how institutional factors and social relationships contribute to population-level racial and ethnic inequalities in older… Continue Reading →
The Gerontology Society of America has honored Bei Wu, MS ’97, PhD ’00, with its prestigious Maxwell A. Pollack Award for Productive Aging. The award, funded by The New York Community Trust, recognizes an individual who has distinguished themselves by… Continue Reading →
The Journal of Aging & Social Policy, published six times annually and based at UMass Boston since its inception in 1989, continues to see a high impact factor—which measures the average number of citations for articles and reviews published in… Continue Reading →
UMass Boston has named Tyler Compton, Esq., interim director of the Pension Action Center in the Gerontology Institute. Compton, who has served as the center’s staff attorney since 2019, is stepping in for Anna-Marie Tabor, Esq., who has accepted a… Continue Reading →
LTSS Center awarded $630,000 contract to develop tool that measures impact of participatory research
Researchers at the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston have received a $630,000 award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to conduct a study entitled: “Measurement Matters: Refining and Validating a PCOR Engagement Measure.” “Our two-year project is an ambitious… Continue Reading →
Mary Frances De Rose was pursuing a career in architecture and health policy, with a focus possibly on the design of healthcare facilities, when a family member was diagnosed with dementia. Drawing on her knowledge of product design and interior… Continue Reading →
Dan O’Leary entered the aging services field by happenstance nearly 50 years ago. He was fresh out of school with a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s in international relations. Facing a tight job market in the Boston… Continue Reading →
New estimates based on the 2022 Elder IndexTM show that the risk of economic insecurity in later life is especially high for people of color. National averages suggest that among older people living alone, 43 percent of people who are… Continue Reading →
Gerontology doctoral candidate Cindy Bui will spend the summer of 2023 interviewing older Vietnamese immigrants in Greater Boston about their caregiving experiences—if they’ve cared for their own older family members and what they expect for their own care as they… Continue Reading →
