Public Health and Aging: Maximizing Function and Well-Being, Second Edition. Steven M. Albert MSc MSPH, Vicki A. Freedman

Public Health and Aging: Maximizing Function and Well-Being, Second Edition



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Language: English
Page: 448
ISBN: 0826121519, 9780826121516

About the Author

Steven M. Albert, PhD, MSPH is Professor of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. He is trained in anthropology (PhD, University of Chicago) and epidemiology (MS, Columbia University) and completed postdoctoral fellowships in aging and health policy (Rutgers University) and aging and cognition (Columbia University). Dr. Albert has 20 years of research in aging and public health, with completed projects investigating disability transitions in old age (National Institute of Aging), mental health at the end of life (National institute of Mental Health), cross-cultural variation in health and chronic disease (Fetzer Institute, Alzheimer's Association, CDC), home health care (Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation), family caregiving (National Alliance of Caregiving), and medication adherence (United Hospital Fund). He conducted fieldwork in Papua New Guinea as a Fulbright Scholar. Current projects include studies of medication review in senior housing (Pittsburgh Foundation), dynamic computational modeling of health behavior (University of Pittsburgh), worksite health promotion for chronic disease management (PPG, Inc.), and assessment of home care technologies. He co-founded the Aging and Public Health MPH Program at Columbia University and teaches courses in aging and public health and research methods in aging research. Dr. Albert is the author or editor of 3 books and over 100 peer-reviewed articles. He has served as an officer in the Behavioral and Social Sciences section of the Gerontological Society of America and the Gerontological Health Section of the American Public Health Association.

Vicki A. Freedman, MA, PhD, is a Research Professor at the Survey Research Center of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Dr. Freedman has published extensively on topics related to population aging, disability, and long-term care. Her recent research focuses on the causes and consequences of late-life disability trends; measuring disability, time use, and well-being among older couples; evaluating the population-level effects of interventions to maximize functioning, and neighborhoods and late-life health and functioning. She has served on over a dozen national advisory panels for federal agencies, including the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Disability in America, and currently serves as Co-Principal Investigator for the National Health and Aging Trends Study and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. She earned her doctorate in Epidemiology from Yale University and master's in Demography from Georgetown University.



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