For UW–Madison School of Nursing alum and professor Dr. Maichou Lor, creating tools to address culturally-appropriate care and improve clinical practice means patients’ symptoms are no longer lost in translation.
Aging & Care for Older Adults
MS Information student Jinghao Zhou leads pioneering research at interdisciplinary School of Nursing lab
Jinghao Zhou MSx’26 talks about his work as a graduate research assistant with Dr. Wan-Chin Kuo in the Metabolic Environment Targeting Age Reversal (METAR) lab.
CARE Awarded Grant to Study Healthy Aging for Latino Elders
The Nursing Center for Aging Research and Education (CARE) was awarded a Greater Milwaukee Foundation grant to support the study Supporting Healthy Aging for Hispanic/Latino Elders via Bilingual Direct Care Workforce Training.
Professor Emerita Barb Bowers on Nursing Home Decline
Professor emerita Barb Bowers was quoted this week in the Capital Times about the decline in quality at Wisconsin nursing homes
Dr. Barb King Receives Grant to Support Caregivers of Older Adults
Dr. Barb King and the Center for Aging Research and Education were awarded an Oscar Rennebohm Foundation grant to support the study CARE U: Improving Health and Wellbeing of Older Adults in Dane County by Enhancing Direct Caregiver Readiness.
Karin Krause ’79 is Addressing Wisconsin’s Housing Shortage Through Intergenerational Living
Krause and family educator Paula Reif are working to build an “intentional intergenerational neighborhood” in a 19th-century farmhouse on Madison’s west side, which they say would be the first of its kind in Wisconsin.
Dianne Farsetta Receives Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment Award
Diane Farsetta received an award for her project “Community-Aging Research Agenda with Older Adults at Risk of Health Disparities.”
Dr. Barb King Awarded Grant from National Institute on Aging
Dr. Barb King and her Co-PI, Dr. Jane Mahoney of the School of Medicine and Public Health, were awarded a five-year R33 grant to support the study “Enhancing the Community-Academic Aging Research Network to Support Assistive Technology (AT) Research for Older Adults by Designing for Dissemination and Health Equity.”
Dr. Barb Bowers Featured in Wisconsin State Journal
Dr. Barb Bowers shared her thoughts on the announcement that SSM Health plans to sell three of its nonprofit nursing homes in Wisconsin to a for-profit long-term care company in New Jersey.
Dr. Tonya Roberts Selected as Gerontological Society of America Fellow
Tonya Roberts, PhD, RN, has been named as a 2024 fellow by the Gerontological Society of America — the nation’s largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging.