• Hiroko Akiyama (Institute for Social Research) Cross-cultural issues in social relations across the life course, including ties to mental health and to intergenerational relations; gender and health; stability and change in domains of well-being.
  • Neil Alexander (Institute of Gerontology) Mobility, balance and fall risk in the elderly.
  • Donna Algase (Nursing) Wandering behavior in the cognitively impaired elderly.
  • Renee Anspach (Women's Studies) Health and aging.
  • Toni Antonucci (Institute for Social Research, Psychology) Social relations across the life span, including ties to mental health, coping with widowhood, financial strain, and illness, and cross-cultural issues.
  • Jane Banaszak-Holl (School of Public Health) Turnover and quality of nursing homes.
  • John C. Campbell (Political Science) Japan's policies on long term care reform.
  • Ruth Campbell (Social Work ,Turner Geriatric Center) Cross-cultural comparisons of the life histories of marriages of older couples, social work interventions with the elderly.
  • Letha Chadiha (Social Work) Family caregiving involving older African Americans.
  • Linda Chatters (Social Work) Religious involvement and well-being; social support networks of adult/elderly African Americans; intergenerational family relations; families and health.
  • Barry Checkoway (Social Work, Urban Planning) Increasing involvement of traditionally underserved people through multicultural organizing, social planning, and urban neighborhood work; implications for policy, planning and program implementation of innovative practice with older adults in Latin America.
  • Cathleen M. Connell (Public Health) Development and evaluation of innovative service delivery programs for informal and formal providers of care to person's with Alzheimer's disease.
  • Mary Corcoran (Social Work, Political Science, Public Policy): Racial and gender aspects of labor market participation; welfare and economic self-sufficiency.
  • Ruth Dunkle (Social Work) Long term care decision making among older patients, the effects of stress on the physical functioning of people over 85 years, racial and ethnic variations in caregiving.
  • Brant Fries (Public Health, Institute of Gerontology) Designing nursing facility payment systems, understanding longitudinal patterns of health care use by the elderly, the development, computerization and use of assessment data for nursing homes and home care.
  • James S. House (Institute for Social Research, Sociology) Social inequalities in aging and health, prevention research, gender and mental health.
  • Berit Ingersoll-Dayton (Social Work) Cross-cultural research on the well being of older individuals and marital dyads; intergenerational relations between adolescents, parents, and grandparents; interventions, caregiving, relationships, forgiveness for problem behavior of nursing home residents.
  • James Jackson (Institute for Social Research, Psychology, Public Health) The influence of ethnic and cultural factors on aging related processess across the life course, including: economic participation and well-being; reciprocity, personal efficacy, and social support; intergenerational family relations; African American mental health and health inequalities.
  • Neal M. Krause (Public Health, Institute of Gerontology) Social support and stress and coping among the elderly, including: religion as a form of coping; cross-cultural issues in well-being, personal control, self-esteem, religion.
  • Jersey Liang (School of Public Health/Institute of Gerontology/Institute for Social Research) Personal control and self esteem; health and well-being of older people in the U.S. and Japan.
  • Lydia Li (Social Work) Caregiving, social support, race differences in health and disability, formal and informal care.
  • Harold Neighbors (Public Health, Insitute for Social Research) Relationship between stress, race, and mental health, including factors that influence psychiatric judgements and treatments; historical analysis of access to and use of health care facilities of African Americans.
  • Willard Rodgers (Institute for Social Research) Methodological issues in the conduct of longitudinal research, with a focus on the elderly's health and resource dynamics in advanced old age.
  • Lawrence Root (Social Work, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations) Continuing education for adult learners, including the motivators for such involvement.
  • Abigail Stewart (Psychology, Institute for Research on Women and Gender) Stability and change in personality across the adult life span, with an emphasis on women's work and family lives and the social and personal factors that affect them.
  • Robert J. Taylor (Social Work, Institute for Social Research) Religion, stress, and physical and mental health in Black Americans; health promotion and health among older racial and ethnic minority populations; African American mental health.
  • Lois Verbrugge (Institute of Gerontology) Gender differences in arthritis musculosketal function and physical disablement; multiple disabilities among population subgroups.
  • Ann Whall (Nursing) Describing and intervening in disruptive behaviors during nursing care procedures in demented nursing home residents.
  • Robert Willis (Institute for Social Research, Economics) Economic issues related to aging.
Links to mentioned U-M Units
(all of the following links leave the SSW web site)