Engaging Communities, Advancing Research
Roybal Senior Scientist Vern Bengtson‘s Families and Faith: How Religion is Passed Down Across Generations was selected as the recipient of the 2015 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award from the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). The award recognizes insightful and
By Eric Lindberg
As a licensed clinical social worker in Los Angeles in the 1980s, María Aranda grew weary of hearing a common refrain.
Every time she tried to find evidence-based solutions to the problems facing her older patients with
By Eric Lindberg
The trend is clear: The United States and Mexico are getting old.
An estimated 72.1 million older adults will be living in the United States by 2030, more than twice as many as in 2000. The proportion
By Vincent Lim
After spending the last two years as a postdoctoral scholar at the USC School of Social Work’s Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, Stipica Mudrazija will join the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. as a research associate.
Aranda Receives Subaward from Partners in Care Foundation
Maria Aranda, an associate professor at the USC School of Social Work and a senior scientist at the USC Roybal Institute, is the principal investigator on a project that was recently funded
By Vincent Lim
Do people become more religious as they age?
To find the answer, the John Templeton Foundation has funded a new research study by Vern Bengtson, a senior scientist at the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging
By Eddie North-Hager
The release of the 2015 USC State of the Neighborhood Report prompted more than 100 community leaders, neighborhood groups, and USC faculty and staff to gather on the University Park and Health Sciences campuses for an in-depth
By Maya Meinert
The USC School of Social Work recently installed four professors as endowed faculty members. They include Dean Marilyn L. Flynn, who was installed as an endowed chair, and Ron Avi Astor, William Vega and Suzanne Wenzel, who
Associate Professor María Aranda will serve on an ad hoc Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee that will develop a report with recommendations for public and private sector policies to support the capacity of family caregivers to perform critical caregiving tasks,
By Eric Lindberg
During her first field placement as an undergraduate social work student in Hong Kong, Iris Chi encountered what she expected to be a very depressing situation.
One of her clients was a woman in her 70s who
