Engaging Communities, Advancing Research
By Maya Meinert
While working in the Seattle area as part of the mayor’s special task force on African-American elders, Karen Lincoln spent a lot of time talking to seniors and those who provided services to them. Her job was
By Vincent Lim
To mark Men’s Health Month, the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging at the USC School of Social Work hosted Men’s Health Awareness Day on June 22.
More than 500 people attended the event on the
Provost Professor William Vega and Research Associate Professor Donald Lloyd represented the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging at the 2013 USC Global Conference, which was held from May 23-25, 2013 at the Grand Hyatt Seoul in Seoul, Korea.
By Vincent Lim
Speaking at the first Advocates for African American Elders public event held in February, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) said she believes her job is to fight for the care and support of seniors, especially on the
By Vincent Lim
Hole in the Head: A Life Revealed, an award-winning documentary that tells the shocking and inspiring life story of Vertus Hardiman—the victim of a horrifying medical experiment—was presented by the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging
By Maya Meinert
Even though Winston Wong now has a big job as medical director of community benefit at Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest nonprofit health care provider, he still maintains a small family medicine practice.
“I want to always
By Vincent Lim
Maria Aranda, associate professor at the USC School of Social Work and core faculty of the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, was presented the California Elder Mental Health and Aging Coalition’s Older Adult Leadership and
Lucille Beserra Roybal, the wife of the late Rep. Edward R. Roybal and an activist in the Latino community, died on Dec. 23, 2012 at the age of 95, two weeks before her 96th birthday.
The funeral mass for Beserra
By Eric Lindberg
Vern Bengtson had his sights set on a career in medicine when he got a little sidetracked.
Having just completed his undergraduate studies in philosophy at Chicago’s North Park College, he planned to pursue a joint MD/PhD
By Vincent Lim
Maria Aranda, an associate professor at the USC School of Social Work and core faculty of the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, presented findings from a recent Institute of Medicine report commissioned by Congress on
