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Magdalen A. Balz is a first year PhD student
- Hometown or Country: Salem, MA
- Education: M.S. in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
- Current Research Interests: Cognitive healthy and cognitive decline in aging (especially in underserved populations of seniors), Language variables consistent with cognitive decline, Cognitive-communication intervention to increase quality of life for seniors and their close others
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Adriana Hernandez is a first year PhD student
- Hometown or Country: Boston, MA
- Education: Bachelors of Arts in Biology
- Current Research Interests: The correlation between social isolation and cognitive decline, the cause/effects of Lewy Body Dementia
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Dongfang Hong is a first year PhD student
- Hometown or Country: Guangzhou, China
- Education: BLS (Bachelor of Life Sciences) in Pathology, Master of Public Health, MS in Healthcare Management
- Current Research Interests: Dementia and dementia care, social determinants of cognitive health, health disparities in ethnic minorities & immigrant older adults
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Jeein Jang is a first year PhD student
- Hometown or Country: South Korea
- Education: BA in Social Welfare, Master's degree in Public Policy
- Current Research Interests: Senior Welfare Policy, Aging and the Life Course, American Politics
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Chang Pu Liang is a first year PhD student
- Hometown or Country: Taipei, Taiwan
- Education: BA in Psychology
- Current Research Interests: Adult coping with aging, intergenerational support in later life and age friendly communities.
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Kingsley Chima Mbam is a first year PhD student
- Hometown or Country: Ebonyi State, Nigeria
- Education: BA in Philosophy and Theology, MA in Theology, Master's in Social Work (MSW)
- Current Research Interests: Economic insecurity in later life, work and intergenerational support in later life, and social demography of aging.
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Brittany M. McFeeley is a first year PhD student
- Hometown or Country: Malden, MA
- Education: BS in Psychology, MS in Psychology
- Current Research Interests: Healthy cognitive aging, quality of life in patients with Alzheimer's disease, modifiable risk factors for dementia.
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Maryssa Pallis is a first year PhD student
- Hometown or Country: Boston, MA
- Education: Master of Business Administration; Master of Public Policy
- Current Research Interests: Family caregiving; direct-care workforce; labor and workforce development; long-term care policy
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Andrew Alberth is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Crystal Lake, IL
- Education: BS Global Health Studies, Masters of Public Health
- Current Research Interests: LGBT aging, elder abuse, dementia and dementia care, access to health and aging services, and aging policy
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Bonnie Albright is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Concord, MA
- Education: BS in Human Development and Family Studies with Gerontology concentration, MS in Gerontology (MAS)
- Current Research Interests: Aging in place, accessible housing, quality of care
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Adrita Barooah is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Assam, India
- Education: Bachelor’s in Home Science; Master's in Human Development & Childhood Studies from University of Delhi, India; Master's in Community Mental Health Counseling from University of Rochester, NY
- Current research interests: Mental illness in nursing homes, mental health issues in aging, nursing homes
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Celeste Beaulieu is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: South Hadley, MA
- Education: Bachelor’s in Psychology
- Current Research Interests: Social determinants and stress on health, exercise and cognition, and natural changes in cognition and memory
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Cindy Bui is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Sacramento, CA
- Education: Bachelor's in Socio-Cultural Anthropology
- Current research interests: ethnic minority & immigrant older adults, low-income aging, intergenerational relationships
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Richard Evan Chunga is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: New York, NY
- Education: BA in Psychology and Sociology
- Current Research Interests: Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, caregiving for dementia and caregiver health, family realationships and relationship quality
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Mandi Collins is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Southbridge, MA
- Education: BS in Family Social Science & Mortuary Science, Master of Public Health
- Current Research Interests: Bereavement, end-of-life care, end-of-life decisions
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Caitlin Connelly is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Durham, NC
- Education: BS in Health and Wellness Promotion
- Current Research Interests: Long-term care facilities, quality of life for persons with dementia, direct-care workforce
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Wuyi Dong is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: AnQing, China
- Education: BS in Management; MS in Information Science; PhD in Library and Information Science
- Current Research Interests: Social determinants of health, intergenerational relationships, digital inequality and aging
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Laura Driscoll is an doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Boston, MA
- Education: Bachelor's in Health Studies; Master’s in Physical Therapy; Doctor of Physical Therapy, Board Certified Geriatric Clinical Specialist
- Current research interests: Implementation of Evidence Based Fall Prevention programs, Health disparities, Delirium, Empathy in physical therapy students and Aging in US jail settings
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Janelle Fassi is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Goffstown, NH
- Education: BA in Communication and Psychology
- Current Research Interests: Intergenerational relations/communication, ageism, spousal caregivers, and grandparent/custodial caregivers
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Alanna Frost is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Windham, NH
- Education: MS in Gerontology & Management of Aging Services
- Current Research Interests: Alzheimer’s disease & dementia, Medicare & state Medicaid programs, issues in long-term care, community based care programs for older Americans
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Elizabeth Gallagher is an doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Kingston, MA
- Education: Bachelor's in Psychology
- Current research interests: Elder abuse, dementia caregiving, sexuality in later life
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Shayna R. Gleason is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Edison, NJ
- Education: BA in Sociology/Anthropology
- Current Research Interests: Transportation/paratransit, age-friendly communities, creative aging
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Shuyan Geng is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Beijing, China
- Education: PhD in Economics
- Current Research Interests: Old-age social security and pension policy analysis and evaluation
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Taylor Gray is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Lowndes County (Hope Hull), Alabama.
- Education: BA in Psychology, BS in Criminology
- Research Interests: Crimes against the elderly, elderly in prison (geriatric release), life course theory
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Taylor Jansen is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Ottawa, IL
- Education: BS in Psychology
- Current Research Interests: Population aging, rural health disparties, healthcare policy
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Maki Karakida is a doctoral student
- Hometown: Portland, OR
- Education: Master's in Health Policy & Economics; Master of Public Health
- Current research interests: aging policy, healthy and age-friendly environment, quality of elderly care (local and global), longevity studies
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Josef Kijewski is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Polson, MT
- Education: BA in Theater; Master of Social Work
- Current Research Interests: End of life planning & conversations in family units; hospice care; public policy & funding for long-term care; alternative models for dementia care facilities; alternative models for senior living
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Emily Lim is an doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Singapore
- Education: Bachelor’s in Social Sciences; Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology
- Current research interests: Long-term care services, quality-of-life, aging-in-place.
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Yan Lin is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Beijing, China
- Education: Master of Law in Demography, PhD in Gerontology (Renmin University, China)
- Current Research Interests: Long-term care, healthcare policy
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Nicole Martinez is a doctoral student |
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Setarreh Massihzadegan is a doctoral student
- Hometown: Andover, MA
- Education: BA in English; MS in Journalism
- Current Research Interests: The impact of housing and neighborhood environment on health, social isolation and loneliness, underrepresented older adults including LGBTQ+
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Jackie Pendergast is a doctoral student
- Hometown: Quincy, MA
- Education: BS, Lasell University
- Current Research Interests: Long-term care services, healthy aging, alzheimers and dementia
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Changmin Peng is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: YiBin City, Sichuan Province, China
- Education: Master of Social Work
- Current Research Interests: Mental Health, Volunteering, home and community-based service
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Natalie Pitheckoff is an doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Valhalla, NY
- Education: Bachelor’s in Political Science; Master’s of Gerontological Studies
- Current Research Interests: Human-animal interactions, family caregiving, policy and aging
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Anyah Prasad is an doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Hyderabad, India
- Education: Bachelor’s in Medicine and Surgery; Post Graduate Diploma in Geriatric Medicine
- Current research interests: LGBT Aging
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Shan Qu is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Liaoning, China
- Education: MS in Gerontology
- Current Research Interests: Aging policy, retirement security
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Alison C. Rataj is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Kingston, NH
- Education: BA in Psychology, Master’s in Social Work
- Current Research Interests: Loneliness, ageism, and prescribing patterns of medications in nursing homes
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Dorcas Shambi is an doctoral student |
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Natalie Shellito is an doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Wichita, KS
- Education: Bachelor's in Hospitality Administration; Master’s in Aging Studies
- Current research interests: Loneliness, social isolation, physical activity and aging
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Liz Simpson is an doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Lexington, Kentucky
- Education: Bachelor’s in Anthropology; Master’s in Public Health in Epidemiology and Social & Behavioral Sciences
- Current research interests: access to and delivery of home and community based services, managed care approaches for older adults with multiple chronic conditions, health services research and policy
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Elisabeth J. Stam is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: New York, NY
- Education: Bachelor of Arts in History, Master of Science in Social Work
- Current Research Interests: Biopsychosocial aspects of aging, geriatric medicine, aging cancer survivors, family structure of older adults, and longevity in older adulthood
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Yan-Jhu Su is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Taipei, Taiwan
- Education: BM in Music, MM in Music Performance, MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with Music Therapy Specialization
- Current Research Interests: Demography of Aging, Health Behavior and Health Factors among Older Adults, Health Disparities, Cognitive Function, Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias, and Mental Health among Older Adults.
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Lilian Anh Thu Tran is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Boston, MA
- Education: BSBA (Business, English) MSMA (Marketing Research, Advertising & PR)
- Current Research Interests: Minority issues, long-term care, policy development and implementation
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Nidya Velasco is an doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico
- Education: Bachelor's in Actuarial Sciences; Master’s in Demography
- Current research interests: Demography of Aging, Social determinants of Health Disparities, and Demography of Multigenerational Kinship
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Adriana Weathersby is a doctoral student |
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Molly J. Wylie is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Santa Monica, CA
- Education: BA in Psychology
- Current Research Interests: Consumer and family decision making in choosing HCBS, regional level non-profit aging services (AAAs and ASAPs), innovation in non-medical home care
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Shu Xu is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: China
- Education: Bachelor of Teaching Chinese, Master of Teaching Chinese
- Current research interests: Mental health of older adults
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Kunyu Zhang is a doctoral student
- Hometown or Country: Woburn, MA; originally from Beijing, China
- Education: Bachelor's in Applied Physics; Master's in Engineering Management
- Current research interests: Technology application in serving older adults; How to prevent cognitive decline in old age
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