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Carl Hill got right to the point when he brought up the subject of research funding priorities at the National Institute on Aging. “The ‘A’ in NIA stands for aging but it’s leaning toward Alzheimer’s,” Hill told more than 40… Continue Reading →
A UMass Boston research team that recently published comprehensive reports on the health of older adults living in Massachusetts and New Hampshire has received new funding to produce similar studies covering two additional New England states. The team at the… Continue Reading →
This is the final post in a series of stories about the academic experiences of a first-year UMass Boston gerontology PhD student. By Caitlin Connelly It happened in the blink of an eye. My first year as a gerontology PhD… Continue Reading →
By Caitlin Connelly A good paradox can turn the obvious on its head. That’s a fair way to describe the aging paradox, a concept well-known to gerontologists that challenges presumptions about the way people feel as they grow older. True,… Continue Reading →
Katherine Newman, the interim chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston, has devoted much of her career to documenting conditions facing poor and working-class Americans. Her new book, Downhill From Here, Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality, examines the… Continue Reading →
Elizabeth Chen came to the field of public health later in life. She’s been making up for lost time ever since. Chen, who had been the chief executive of two companies and a leader in higher education, came to the… Continue Reading →
A research team from the University of Massachusetts Boston has delivered a comprehensive new report on the health of older people in New Hampshire, along with detailed profiles of 244 communities in their state. The first-ever New Hampshire Healthy Aging… Continue Reading →
Some of the challenges faced by people with Alzheimer’s disease and their families can be found in a doctor’s office or a hospital. Large numbers of people affected are not diagnosed or, in some cases, not told of the diagnosis…. Continue Reading →
The McCormack Graduate School’s Gerontology Institute has welcomed 10 new fellows, all from the UMass Boston campus, who bring additional expertise in nursing and health sciences, public policy, sociology and economics to the organization. “This move formalizes our collaboration with… Continue Reading →
Victor Regnier is, perhaps, the nation’s leading authority on the design and development of senior housing with service across the LTSS continuum. A joint professor at USC’s School of Architecture and Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, Regnier is the only person… Continue Reading →
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