Author Lisa A Watts
Caitlin Coyle, PhD ‘14, is featured among a handful of fellow leaders in aging in a new podcast, ReiMAgine Aging, produced by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs in partnership with Point32Health Foundation and the Massachusetts Healthy Aging Collaborative…. Continue Reading →
“My life has changed in a direction I never would have seen it go in had I not been an MAS student. I hope to make you all proud as I move forward in my career in aging.”—Sophia Casale, MAS… Continue Reading →
Older women, especially those living alone, continue to experience an elevated risk of economic insecurity, as detailed in a new report, “Late-life Gender Disparities in Economic Security,” from the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston. The report uses… Continue Reading →
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 →
