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By Taryn Hojlo Erin Kopecki didn’t consider much beyond the grading rubric when she drafted a business plan for her gerontology capstone project at UMass Boston. Her professor told students they could satisfy the project’s requirements with either a research… Continue Reading →
By Saadia Ahmad The first time that Dr. Shuangshuang Wang learned of the gerontology field was from a professor in college who mentioned that while there are many researchers interested in child development, far fewer are focused on the development… Continue Reading →
Consumer engagement has become a health care priority, but it is difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of strategies and organization-level plans developed to achieve that goal. In a recent blog post for Community Catalyst’s Center for Consumer Engagement in Health… Continue Reading →
By Alisha Sanders “How will we pay for services?” That’s the number-one question I get during presentations and conversations about implementing housing plus services models in affordable senior housing communities. Unfortunately, I generally don’t have a good answer. Right now,… Continue Reading →
The market for long-term care insurance has a lot of problems. That same market could be an important element in a broader solution to financing challenges surrounding long-term care as the nation’s population grows older. That was the message Marc Cohen,… Continue Reading →
By Natalie Pitheckoff Most Americans know very little about Bulgaria. Even fewer are aware of its aging population, which is creating great challenges (and opportunities) across the country. People often hear or read about aging in countries such as China… Continue Reading →
The Gerontology Institute’s Pension Action Center is part of the McCormack Graduate School at UMass Boston. It provides free legal assistance to low- and moderate-income workers, retirees and their survivors in the six New England states and Illinois whose pension benefits… Continue Reading →
The Pension Action Center of the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston has received two new grants that will help it continue free pension counseling and legal assistance to low- and moderate-income workers in Illinois. The separate grants… Continue Reading →
How do some researchers get a leg up in the hyper-competitive world of grant funding? One important source of funds, the National Institute on Aging, only has the financial resources to support 15 percent of grant applications. And that’s an… Continue Reading →
Jim Hermelbracht is the new director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UMass Boston. Recently, Hermelbracht talked about why he was drawn to the job and explained his initial priorities at OLLI. He also discussed his roots in the… Continue Reading →
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