Both in the home and within many long-term care settings, such as assisted living, informal care partners provide a majority of care for older adults. These care partners are diverse, reflecting changes in family structure over the last century, and include friends, neighbors, and significant others such as volunteers, fictive kin, and families of choice as well as blood relatives. Often, multiple care partners share care responsibilities. Our research addresses this multiplicity.
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Emory Roybal Center with a focus on context-specific dementia caregiving: Molly Perkins, PhD and Kenneth Hepburn, PhD
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Improving quality of life at end of life of persons with advanced dementia and their care partners in assisted living: Molly Perkins, PhD
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Convoys of care in assisted living: Molly Perkins, PhD (with colleagues at Georgia State)
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Aging Sensitivity Training: Katharina Echt, PhD and Patricia Griffiths, PhD, MS
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Care Networks in Assisted Living: Molly Perkins, PhD
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Dementia Caregiving: Patricia Griffiths, PhD and Molly Perkins, PhD, MA
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Fall prevention in nursing homes by predicting bed exit: Theodore Johnson II, MD, MPH and Ann Vandenberg, PhD, MPH