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Assisted living has been an extraordinary successful model for combining housing and personal care. But the cost often puts assisted living out of the reach of many middle- and almost all lower-income elders and their families. Benchmark Senior Living,… Continue Reading →
Anna-Marie Tabor, a distinguished attorney with a career dedicated to consumer protection and civil rights, has been selected as the new director of the Pension Action Center at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Tabor is the Deputy Fair Lending Director… Continue Reading →
By Taryn Hojlo Two gerontology students researching a multi-generational approach to community senior centers and property tax relief programs for older homeowners have been selected for the 2018 Capstone awards. Students Beth Duggan Rouleau and Norma Strack were selected by… Continue Reading →
Want seniors to become more engaged in their communities and speak up effectively on issues that matter to them? Cities and towns can help by teaching their older residents some important skills and providing practical information. Case in point: The… Continue Reading →
By Meghan Hendricksen Many older Americans, some of them disabled, badly need the support of a Social Security system they contributed to for most of their working lives. Often, that system does not provide nearly enough. … Continue Reading →
Marc Cohen went back a long way with Josh Wiener. For decades, they debated the substance and detail of one of the most pressing social and economic challenges of our times – how to pay for the long-term services and… Continue Reading →
Two doctoral students in the UMass Boston Gerontology Department have been accepted into a prestigious summer program that helps students develop their dissertations prior to defense. Haowei Wang and Shiva Prasad were two of only 12 campus graduate students accepted… Continue Reading →
By Meghan Hendricksen So, how is school going? Every gerontology student at UMass Boston’s McCormack Graduate School could give you an earful on that subject. The Gerontology Institute Blog wanted to hear what students had to say about their studies, the… Continue Reading →
The Massachusetts Gerontology Association has selected UMass Boston associate professor Elizabeth Dugan as the 2018 recipient of its Louis Lowy award, which honors individuals who have made important contributions to the field of aging in the state. Dugan’s “research, leadership,… Continue Reading →
When LeadingAge and the University of Massachusetts Boston established the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston last spring, researchers in Washington eagerly anticipated one partnership benefit: incorporating UMass Boston graduate students into their applied research projects. That anticipation ended in November,… Continue Reading →
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