Associate Director

Social Work and Community Programs

University of Michigan Geriatric Center
Turner Clinic
1010 Wall Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

TEL: (313) 764-2556
FAX: (313) 936-4120

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  aging and life cycle; community organizations and development; comparative and cross-cultural studies; cultural and social change; gender, sex roles, women; organizations and institutions; social counseling; social problems and welfare

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Social Work Specialist, Turner Geriatric Clinic, 1987-present; Project Director, W. K. Kellogg Foundation Health Promotion for Seniors, 1984-87; Research Associate, Research on Social Security and Women, National Policy Center on Women and Aging, University of Maryland, 1980-81; Program Director, Day Care Center for the Elderly, Montefiore Community Center, 1973.

IN JAPAN: 1991-92 - research; 1983, 1989-90 - Fulbright; 1976-77 - fellowship; 1969-70, 1965-66 - study.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

"Rules of Support Exchange Among Two Generations of Japanese Women" (with Akiyama et al.) Growing Old in Different Societies (ed. Sokolovsky) (1989); "Writing Groups for the Elderly" Individual Change Through Small Groups (ed. Glasser et al.) (Free Press, 1985).