Professor of Gerontology
University of Massachusetts Boston
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Nina M. Silverstein is Professor of Gerontology, University of Massachusetts Boston. Her PhD is from Brandeis University. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and has held leadership roles in that organization, the Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education, and the Alzheimer’s Association. She has published on the impact of dementia on home, community, institutional and acute care; community mobility; age-friendly universities, and on a broad range of issues in gerontology. She co-authored three books: Dementia and Wandering Behavior: Concern for the Lost Elder; Improving Hospital Care for Persons with Dementia, and Introduction to Senior Transportation. She is currently Co-Investigator on healthy aging data reports in the New England states funded through the Tufts Health Plan Foundation, and Principal Investigator on a current study, Moving from Age-Friendly Principles to Practices in U.S. Higher Education: Strategies to Enhance Learning and Workplace Environments funded by the RRF (formerly the Retirement Research Foundation).
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Friday, November 4, 2022
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET