The federal Administration for Community Living (ACL) has awarded Community Catalyst a four-year grant to develop, test, and disseminate new approaches for increasing awareness of family caregivers and building support for their unique concerns. As part of that grant, the… Continue Reading →
In 2022, the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition asked Marc Cohen to co-lead one of its seven committees created as part of a two-year national initiative to improve nursing home quality. Cohen, co-director of the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass… Continue Reading →
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 →
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