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Questions and Answers About the New LeadingAge LTSS Center @ UMass Boston

The Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston and LeadingAge have joined forces to create a new research center called the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston. Katie Sloan, LeadingAge president and CEO; Len Fishman, director of the Gerontology Institute… Continue Reading →

UMass Boston and LeadingAge Establish New LTSS Research Center

LeadingAge is joining with the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston to create a new research center called the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston. The new center is the first in the country to combine the expertise of… Continue Reading →

Record Number of Gerontology Students Earn Doctoral Degrees in 2017

One came up directly through the University of Massachusetts undergraduate system. Several traveled halfway around the world to study in Boston. Still others took their own varied paths to the same campus. This year, the eight students all earned PhD… Continue Reading →

UMass Boston Gerontology in the News

Professors and other UMass Boston gerontology thought leaders appear regularly in news media stories about seniors and issues important to them. Among recent articles: Associate Professor Kathrin Boerner highlighted her research on centenarians and their adult children in a recent… Continue Reading →

Professor Jan Mutchler Honored as Boston Globe “Game Changer”

Jan Mutchler is among 51 selections highlighted in The Boston Globe’s 2017 Game Changers publication, an annual compilation of “bright ideas and breakthroughs, inventions and innovations, people and places making waves in Boston.” Mutcher, a professor of gerontology at UMass… Continue Reading →

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 →

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