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By Steven Syre During a new, 2-year project, the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston will help bring the voices of older adults to the process of developing applied research studies. Amy Eisenstein had a powerful idea. She wanted to see what would happen if researchers made a point of reaching…...

By Robyn I. Stone Next Avenue invited its 2017 Influencers in Aging to blog about the one thing they would like to change about aging in America. Robyn Stone, senior vice president of research at LeadingAge, and one of this year’s Influencers in Aging, wrote this post for Next Avenue.…...

By Geralyn Magan Researchers have determined the association between a nursing home’s level of person-centered care implementation and resident-reported satisfaction with their quality of life, quality of care, and quality of services. Residents of nursing homes that have fully implemented person-centered care are more likely to give high ratings to…...

By Steven Syre New research led by an assistant professor of gerontology at the University of Massachusetts Boston may support calls favoring public reporting, at the individual nursing-home level, of quality measures based on race and ethnicity. Reports examining racial and ethnic disparities in the quality of nursing home care…...

Robyn Stone reflected on her 40-year career after being awarded the 2016 Maxwell A. Pollack Award for Productive Aging by the Gerontological Society of America. LeadingAge Senior Vice President of Research Robyn Stone sat down this summer with Brian W. Lindberg, policy advisor to the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), to…...

By Steven Syre Helping the National Council on Aging (NCOA) better understand the older adults it currently serves, and assess the financial challenges facing middle-income elders who are not often served by NCOA’s programs and services. The LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston (formerly CFAR) is using a grant from the…...

By Geralyn Magan Meet the winner of this year’s Joan Anne McHugh Award. Bahaa Barsoum, R.N., has an uncanny ability to see great potential in people, even when they don’t see it in themselves. The director of nursing (DON) at A.G. Rhodes Health and Rehab in Atlanta, GA, says it’s…...

By Geralyn Magan Dr. Robyn Stone brings decades of research experience and senior-level policy expertise to LeadingAge’s mission to inspire, serve and advocate for older Americans. Dr. Robyn Stone, senior vice president of research at LeadingAge, has been named an Influencer in Aging by Next Avenue. The Influencers in Aging…...

By Steven Syre A new study will explore the relationships of parents older than 95 with a child older than 65. A new study may help providers of aging services better understand the unique relationship between residents and their older-adult children. Kathrin Boerner, an associate professor of Gerontology at the…...