Scholars
Scholars are actively involved in applied research in long term care with the center.
Basting, Anne, Director, Center on Age and Community, Assoc. Professor of Theater, Peck School of Arts
Blau, Dick, Professor of Film, Peck School of Arts
Chesley, Noelle, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Fritsch, Thomas, Ph.D., Associate Director, Center on Age and Community
Hunt Ott, Carol, Ph.D., RN, Cert. Prof. Counselor, Cert. Grief Therapist
Associate Professor, College of Nursing, UWM
Kadushin, Goldie, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Helen Bader School of Social Welfare; Coordinator, Graduate Certificate in Applied Gerontology
Keigher, Sharon, Ph.D., ACSW, Professor of Social Work
Kovach, Christine, (Officer), Professor, College of Nursing
Kwak, Jung, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Social Work, Helen Bader School of Social Welfare
Lichtenstein, Brad, Adjunct Professor, Department of Film
Marek, Karen Dorman, Associate Professor, College of Nursing
Mathiowetz, Nancy, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology
Merritt, Marcellus, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology
Montgomery, Rhonda, Professor, Helen Bader Endowed Chair in Applied Gerontology
Morgan, Sarah, Research Specialist, Harriet Werley Center for Nursing Research and Evaluation
Savundranayagam, Marie Y., Asst. Professor, Helen Bader School of Social Welfare
Strath, Scott, Asst. Professor, Human Movement Sciences
Swartz, Ann, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Movement Sciences
Weisman, Gerald, Professor, School of Architecture and Urban Planning Anne Basting, Director
Anne Basting
Anne Basting (Ph.D.) is the Director of the Center on Age and Community and an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Basting has written extensively on issues of aging and representation, including her book The Stages of Age: Performing Age in Contemporary American Culture. Her numerous articles and essays have been published across multiple disciplines including journals such as TDR, American Theatre, and Journal of Aging Studies, and anthologies Figuring Age, Mental Wellness in Aging, the Handbook for the Humanities and Aging, and Aging and the Meaning of Time. Basting is the recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship, a Brookdale National Fellowship, and numerous major grants for her scholarly and creative endeavors. Her creative work includes nearly a dozen plays and public performances, including The Frida Kahlo Retrospective (1994), Persuasion (co-written with Ping Chong, 1994), the Last Dinosaur (winner, Jane Chambers Student division, 1992), and Time Slips (Milwaukee, 2000, New York City 2001). Basting received her Ph.D. in Theatre Arts and Dance from the University of Minnesota in 1995. Basting continues to direct the TimeSlips Creative Storytelling Project, which she founded in 1998, and makes numerous presentations creativity and aging across the United States.
Dick Blau
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
dickblau@uwm.edu; 414-229-6743
Dick Blau has a BA in English from Harvard College (1965) and a Ph.D in American Studies from Yale University (1973). His interests range from psychological portraiture to experimental narrative, from ethnography to performance. His photographs and films have been exhibited internationally and are to be found in a number of important museum collections. His students' films have won many awards, among them the Grand Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival and First Prize for Experimental Film at the Harvard Black Film Festival. Dick is author of Bright Balkan Morning: Romani Lives and the Power of Music in Greek Macedonia, Photographs by Dick Blau, Text by Charles and Angeliki Keil, Soundscape by Steven Feld (Wesleyan University Press, 2002), and he is co-author with the Keils of Polka Happiness (Temple University Press Visual Studies Series, 1992). In addition, his photographs of the family are featured in a new book on the theory of domestic photography. Living With His Camera, Text by Jane Gallop/Photographs by Dick Blau, was published by Duke University Press in 2003.
Dick's interest in aging has led to him make a photographic documentary about the TimeSlips Project. In 1999, his TimeSlips photographs were included in the Time of Our Lives show at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City as well in a number of publications, ranging from The Drama Review to Contemporary Long Term Care. Dick has also served as Artistic Director for "A Good Day Begins," four videotapes about adult day care centers and their clients.
He can also be reached through his "Polka Happiness" Homepage.
Noelle Chesley
Assistant Professor, Sociology
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
chesley@uwm.edu; 414-229-2398
Noelle Chesley is an Assistant Professor in the department of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research interests include gender and the lifecourse, health and well-being, and aging. Her current research is concerned with assessing whether and how gender and employment patterns interact to influence the propensity to provide care for a parent or in-law. She is also investigating the health consequences associated with combining work and informal care to parents.
Thomas Fritsch, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Center on Age & Community
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
fritscht@uwm.edu; 414-229-2729
Thomas Fritsch, Ph.D. is the Associate Director of the UWM Center on Age & Community - serving as a liaison between agencies in Milwaukee's "aging network" and UWM. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH (1990), where he earned a Bachelor's of Social Science in Psychology. He was awarded the Glenn LeGrange Award for Achievement in Psychology at that time. He earned a Master of Arts at Miami University, Ohio, specializing in social cognition and the cognitive bases of stereotyping (1993). His doctoral work, also completed at Miami University, examined the effects of an intervention to reduce strain in caregivers of cognitively impaired, hospitalized elders, in a randomized control trial (2000).
Prior to coming to UWM, Dr. Fritsch was a researcher for 10 years at the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland, OH. He also served as a faculty member in the Department of Neurology at CWRU. His research interests there included risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD). A specific focus was on associations between factors early in life-such as early cognitive abilities and activity levels-and dementia later in life. This line of research has contributed to the growing view that many dementias may have a long-term course, perhaps with roots to be found as early as in young adulthood. Indeed, dementia might be considered one of the chronic diseases of aging, much like heart disease or diabetes.
Dr. Fritsch has published articles in many peer-reviewed journals, including: Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition; The Gerontologist; International Psychogeriatrics; The Journal of Alzheimer's Disease; Neurology; The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA; and others. He has served as an ad hoc reviewer for: The Gerontologist; The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society; The Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology; The New England Journal of Medicine; Southern Medical Journal; and others. He has received grant support from: The American Health Assistance Foundation (Rockville, MA); The Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (Department of Neurology) (Cleveland, OH); The Helen Bader Foundation (Milwaukee, WI); and NIA-NIH (Washington, DC).
Dr. Fritsch is in demand as a speaker on many topics ranging from dementia/Alzheimer's disease; "successful" aging; partnering with universities to do research and evaluation; and other areas. He has given talks in cities across the State of Wisconsin; Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; and at professional conferences across the United States. If interested in scheduling a talk, please feel free to contact him.
Carol Hunt Ott
Ph.D., RN, Cert. Prof. Counselor, Cert. Grief Therapist
Assistant Professor, College of Nursing
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
carolott@uwm.edu; 414-229-5491
Goldie Kadushin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Helen Bader School of Social Welfare
Coordinator, Graduate Certificate in Applied Gerontology
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
kadushin@uwm.edu; 414-229-6733
Dr. Kadushin received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1989 and joined the faculty of UWM in 1994. Her teaching responsibilities are in the area of social work methods.
Dr. Kadushin is the Coordinator of the University Certificate in Applied Gerontology and the Coordinator of Adjunct Faculty for the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare. Dr. Kadushin's current research interests are in the area of community-based social work practice with the elderly.
She is the co-author with Alfred Kadushin of the Social Work Interview (4th edition), Columbia University Press, 1997. She is the Associate Editor of the journal, Social Work in Health Care. Dr. Kadushin was a social work practitioner for 15 years.
She can also be reached through her Helen Bader School of Social Welfare page.
Sharon M. Keigher, Ph.D, ACSW
Professor of Social Work
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
keigher@uwm.edu; 414-2294414
For the last three years Sharon Keigher has been a co-investigator on a large study funded by the National Institute of Health, Women Living with HIV. She has combined her years of experience in teaching social work with research being done by the School of Nursing. In this study, Keigher will interview nine women over the age of 50 who have AIDS. Using her past research on home and community based services for the aging, Kiegher will assess how prepared the aging network is for challenge that lies ahead as the number of seniors with special needs increases.
During Keigher's fellowship she will gather "systems intelligence" by exploring how well prepared the AIDS Service System and Aging Network are to meet the needs and concerns of persons 50 and older who have HIVor AIDS in Milwaukee County. The aim is to create a comprehensive overview of how both systems will serve older persons infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS.
It is estimated that nearly 90,000 Americans, or 17% of those who have HIV/AIDS are now aged 50 and older. Because older people are not regularly tested for HIV/AIDS, and symptoms are likely to be misdiagnosed, it is likely that even more cases may exist.
This study will better develop our knowledge on the HIV/AIDS and aging network systems and hopefully identify ways the two systems can collaborate in the future.
Chris Kovach (Officer)
Professor, College of Nursing
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
ckovach@uwm.edu; 414-229-6233
Christine R. Kovach, PhD, RN has done extensive clinical work and research with people who have Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. She examines practice problems from new perspectives and develops and researches innovative approaches to dementia care. Specifically, she has been responsible for: 1) opening and researching some of the first hospice households designed to care for people with late-stage dementia; 2) opening Special Care Units for midstage dementia and researching specific programmatic, environmental, and behavioral aspects of the SCU model; and c) developing theory, the "Model of Imbalance in Sensoristasis," to guide research and practice on activity pacing of people with dementia. She has over 30 publications in scientific journals and was recently funded through the RO1 mechanism for $1.1 million by the National Institute for Nursing Research for a randomized double-blinded experiment testing the effectiveness of a nursing protocol in decreasing pain in people with dementia. She also received funding from the Helen Bader Foundation to support a double-blinded randomized experiment testing the effectiveness of an activity pacing intervention in decreasing agitation of people with dementia. Her current funded studies include a study of factors associated with successfully implementing changes in pain management in nine nursing homes (awarded to the Training Research Institute by the Administration on Aging) and factors associated with creating and sustaining culture change from the Jewish Foundation and Care Center.
Dr. Kovach is a section editor for the Journal of Gerontological Nursing and serves as an Editorial Board Member for the journals Research in Nursing & Health and the American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias. She has served as a proposal reviewer for the National Institute for Nursing Research, the Alzheimer's Association, Extendicare Foundation and the Israel Science Foundation. Her book Late-Stage Dementia Care: A Basic Guide is published by Taylor & Francis Publishing. She is a fellow in the Gerontological Society of America and serves as a mentor for the Clinical Medicine section of this organization. She will be inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in fall of 2006.
Jung Kwak
Assistant Professor, Social Work, HBSSW
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
kwak@uwm.edu
Jung received her Ph.D. in Aging Studies from the University of South Florida. After spending two years under the mentorship of Dr. Rhonda Montgomery, Jung has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Social Work at the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare.
Jung's primary research focuses on examining efficacy of caregiver support interventions and cultural diversity in end-of-life decision-making and service use. She is currently serving as a project director for a multi-site, randomized control trial of care management intervention designed to improve caregiver outcomes. Jung's scholarly work has been published in journals including Aging and Society, American Journal of Nursing, The Gerontologist, and Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. She also received several scholarships and fellowships, including the University of South Florida Graduate School Outstanding Dissertation Award, AARP Diversity Student fellowship, Institute on Aging Fellowship and Center for Hospice, End-of-Life Studies Pilot Grant. Recently, Jung was selected as a recipient of American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine's (AAHPM) College of Palliative Care Year-Long Mentorship. With the support from the AAHPM, she has been working with her national mentor, Dr. Betty Kramer from University of Wisconsin-Madison, to further develop her program of research in social work research in end of life care.
In addition to her research and scholarship, Jung has served as a member of the Education and Training Steering Committee, Care Management Organization - Milwaukee County Department on Aging.
Karen Dorman Marek
PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
kmarek@uwm.edu; 414-229-5071
Karen Dorman Marek, PhD, MBA, RN FAAN is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). Her major expertise in is the area of community-based long term care. She currently is Principal Investigator on a National Institute of Health (NIH) funded study to test a home care medication management program for frail older adults. Dr. Marek also has a joint appointment with the Aurora Visiting Nurse Association, where she provides consultation related to quality monitoring and improvement. She has worked in the development of community-based nursing practices for most of her nursing career. Before joining the faculty at UWM she was an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri and Executive Director of Senior Care, a home health agency operated by the School of Nursing that specialized in care of older adults. While in Missouri, she was Principal Investigator of a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) funded grant to test a community-based long term care program called "Aging in Place". Other positions she has held include Manager of Patient Services at Visiting Nurse Service in Akron, Ohio and faculty at the University of Pennsylvania where she taught community health nursing. In addition, while in Pennsylvania, she chaired the Nursing Information Workgroup for the Regional Nursing Center Consortium and directed a project funded by the Independence Foundation to develop a Regional Nursing Center Data Warehouse. A graduate of Akron City Hospital's Idabelle Firestone School of Nursing diploma program, Dr. Marek received her BSN and MSN from the University of Akron, and her MBA and PhD in nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Nancy A. Mathiowetz
Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
nancym2@uwm.edu; 414-229-2216
Nancy A. Mathiowetz has been a Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies at UWM since 2003. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, B.S., Sociology (with honors), in 1978. She received her M.S. in Biostatistics in1983 and her Ph.D., Sociology in 1988 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Dr. Mathiowetz's research interests are in survey methodology, measurement error, health services research. Her teaching interests include quantitative analysis, questionnaire design, statistics, and survey methodology.
The following is a list of her most recent publications:
- Nancy A. Mathiowetz (2001) "Methodological Issues in the Measurement of Persons with Disabilities." Research in Social Science and Disability, Volume 2: 125-144.
- John Bound, Charlie Brown, and Nancy Mathiowetz (2001) "Measurement Error in Survey Data" in J. Heckman and E. Leamer (eds) Handbook of Econometrics, Volume 5.
- Nancy A. Mathiowetz and Sarah Dipko (2000) "A Comparison of Response Error by Adolescents and Adults." Medical Care 38:374-382.
She can also be reached through her Department of Sociology homepage.
Marcellus Merritt
Assistant Professor, Psychology
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
merrittm@uwm.edu; 414-229-6145
Marcellus's experimental research program examines stress and cardiovascular heath disparities. Specifically, he studies hypertension and cardiovascular diseases among racially/ethnically diverse populations as well as the link between health buffering behaviors and reduced risk for poor health outcomes.
Presently, Marcellus is studying caregiver stress among young and middle-aged adult dementia caregivers. He worked on a pilot study that examines how aged-related disease caregivers cope with their caregiving responsibilities psychologically, socially and physiologically.
Marcellus, in collaboration with other CAC scholars, recently conducted a clinical trial which examined how nursing home patients with dementia responded to the 12-week TimeSlips storytelling program created by CAC director, Anne Basting.
In 2007, he was also awarded the CAC Travel Award, to present at the 2008 Society of Behavioral Medicine meeting. His presentation was titled, John Henryism, active coping and diurnal salivary cortisol patterns among African-American and European-American female dementia family caregivers.
Marcellus has been with UWM since July 2006. He is the ad hoc reviewer several professional journals, including The Journal of the National Medical Association, Psychology and Aging, Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Psychosomatic Medicine, American Journal of Cardiology and applications for American Psychological Association Minority fellowships.
Rhonda Montgomery
Professor, Helen Bader Endowed Chair in Applied Gerontology
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
rm@uwm.edu; 414-229-3289
Rhonda J.V. Montgomery, an internationally known scholar in aging, is the first person to occupy the new chair in gerontology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee endowed by The Helen Bader Foundation. The chair is within the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare. At UWM, Montgomery holds faculty appointments both in that school and in the Sociology Department of the College of Letters and Science. Montgomery comes to UWM from the University of Kansas, where she was chair of the Ph.D. in Gerontology program and director of the Gerontology Center at the university. During the last 20 years, Montgomery has conducted scores of regional and national studies focusing on public policy and the role of the family in providing long-term care. For 11 years, she has evaluated demonstration projects in 33 states that are operating through grants from The Administration on Aging. The funding allows states to try new ways to provide training and support to caregivers who deal with people with dementia. Montgomery, who has worked with several UWM faculty in the past, looks forward to continuing her cross-disciplinary approach at the university. She also sees Milwaukee as an ideal location to continue her community-based research.
She can also be reached through her Helen Bader School Of Social Sciences Homepage.
Marie Savundranayagam
Assistant Professor, Helen Bader School of Social Welfare
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Marie Savundranayagam is an Assistant Professor in the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is also a scientist in UWM's Training Research Institute and is involved in evaluating training programs for family and professional caregivers.
She completed her bachelor's degree from the Combined Honours Program in Arts & Science and Psychology at McMaster University in Canada. She earned her Masters and Ph.D. in Gerontology, with a concentration in Health Care Outcomes Management and Research, at the University of Kansas. She also completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Western Ontario in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Her research interests maintain an aging and health outcomes perspective. Specifically, her research focuses on dementia-related stressors, including communication problems, and their effect on burden for family caregivers. Her research is also on professional caregivers and the impact of communication enhancing strategies, including personhood, on perceptions of long-term care staff and residents. Her most recent completed research investigated the impact of spousal and caregiver roles on multidimensional aspects of burden. Marie was the recipient of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Aging 'Age Plus' Award for her work on communication problems and caregiver burden. She was recently selected as a Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholar, an award that is aimed at improving the lives of older adults by supporting faculty in research, teaching and leadership in geriatric social work. Marie currently teaches courses on lifespan family development and social gerontology.
Scott Strath, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Human Movement Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
sstrath@uwm.edu; 414-229-3666
Dr. Scott Strath is a new addition to the faculty of the Department of Human Movement Sciences at UWM. Strath, who comes from the University of Michigan, Medical School, is an expert in the area of physical activity and public health. In conjunction with his appointment, he is also the new director of the Older Adult Fitness program, which is a joint venture between the Milwaukee County Department of Aging and the Department of Human Movement Sciences.
The overall aim of Strath's fellowship is to determine whether providing free access to exercise facilities and trainers in local senior centers is effective in encouraging local community members to improve their health and psychological well being by increasing overall daily physical activity. He will also trace whether having free exercise equipment in senior centers is effective in making seniors more aware of the need to stay active. For example, does exercising in a group make seniors more apt to be more physically active throughout the day, increase health, functional status and decrease depression?
Strath's initial investigation will hopefully lend support to the need for free exercise facilities located within community senior centers - in addition to highlighting the importance of being physically active for the overall health and well-being of older adults.
He can also be reached through his College of Health Sciences Homepage.
Ann Swartz
Assistant Professor, Department of Human Movement Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
aswartz@uwm.edu; 414-229-4242
Swartz's primary interest involves the impact of exercise and physical activity on obesity and type 2 diabetes in the aging adult. Specific interests include the effect of walking and/or physical activity on obesity levels, glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity. With the Center on Age & Community fellowship, Swartz is working on a project entitled, "Impact of Physical Activity on the Relationship between Abdominal Obesity and Health in Older Adults." The aim of the project is to determine whether physical activity can modify the association between abdominal obesity and co-morbid conditions in older adults.
She can also be reached through her College of Health Sciences Homepage.
Gerald Weisman
Professor
Department of Architecture
Education
University of Michigan: Ph.D. in Psychology & Architecture 1979
University of Michigan: M.Arch. 1970
Carnegie-Mellon University: B.Arch. 1969
Teaching Area
General Design Studio, Environments for Older Persons, Environmental Cognition, Philosophical Bases of Environmental Design Research
Memberships
Steering Committee: AIA Design for Aging Center
Vice President: Society for Advancement of Gerontological Environments (SAGE)
Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA)
Gerontological Society of America
Academic and Professional Honors
Research Award, UWM Graduate School/UWM Foundation
Citation, Progressive Architecture Awards Program Award from AIA International Design Book Fair Competition
Teaching Experience
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: 1983-present
Pennsylvania State University: 1978-1983
Kansas State University: 1975-1978
Professional Experience
National consultations on projects for the elderly and cognitively impaired.
Research Interests
Programming, design, and evaluation of environments for the elderly and cognitively impaired. Along with the UW-M colleague Uriel Cohen, he co-directs the Instiitute on Aging & Environment. With support from the national office of the Alzheimer's Association, the Retirement Research Foundation, and the Helen Bader Foundation, the Institute on Aging & Environment conducts programming and evaluation studies and provides technical assistance to dementia care providers engaged in the design of innovative new facilities or renovations. Weisman previously served as environmental consultant to a major research initiative on specialized facilities for people with dementia sponsored by the National Institute on Aging. He is a member of the Steering committee of the American Institute of Architects' newly established Design for Aging Center and Vice President of SAGE (Society for advancement of Gerontological Environments), a national organization committed to reform of regulations for nursing home design. He most recently served as Principle Investigator for a project, funded by the Helen Bader Foundation of Milwaukee, to develop planning and design guidelines for dementia day care facilities.
Publications (Selected)
Weisman, G. (2001). The place of people in architectural design. In A. Pressman (Ed.), The architect's portable design handbook: A guide to best practices. New York: McGraw Hill.
Weisman, G.,Chaudhury, H. & Diaz Moore, K. (2000). "Theory and Practice of place: Toward an integrative model". In R. Rubenstein, M. Moss, & M. Kleban (Eds.), The many dimensions of aging:
Essays in honor of M. Powell Lawton. New York: Springer
Norris-Baker, L., Wiesman, G., Lawton, M.P., Sloane, P. (2000). Assessing special care units for dementia: The professional environmental assessment protocol. In S. Danforth & E. Steinfeld (Eds.), Measuring enabling environments. New York: Plenum.
Weisman, G (1997). Environments for older persons with cognitive impairments: Toward an integration of research and practice. In G. Moore & R. Marans (Eds.), Advances in environment, behavior, and design: V.4.. New York: Plenum.
Lawton, M. P., Weisman, G., Sloane, P. & Calkins, M. (1997). Assessing environments for older people with chronic illness. In J. Teresi, et al. (Eds.), Measurement in elderly chronic care populations. New York: Springer.
Kovach, C., Weisman, G., Chaudhury, H, & Calkins, M. (1997). Impacts of a therapeutic environment for dementia care. Journal of Alzheimer's Care & Research, May/June. Pp. 99-110.
Lawton, M.P., Weisman, G., Chaudhury, H & Calkins, M. (1997). "Assessing environments for older people with chronic illness". In J. Teresi, M. P. Lawton, D. Holmes & M Ory (Eds.), Measurement in elderly chronic care populations (pp. 193-209). New York: Springer.
Weisman, G., Calkins, M. & Slaone, P. (1994). The environmental context of special care. Alzheimer's disease & associatec disorders: An international journal. V. 8: Supplement 1, 308-320.
Cohen, U & Weisman, G (1991). Holding on to home: Designing environments for people with dementia. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins
Research and Creative Activities
Along with Institute on Aging & Environment colleagues, Weisman has, over the past ten years, been involved in over 70 consulting projects in the U.S. and Canada including a new replacement campus for the Philadelphia Geriatric Center and the Helen Bader Center at the Milwaukee Jewish Home.
Service
Co-Director, Institute on Aging & Environment
Member, Leadership Council, UWM Design for Aging Center
Member of the Departmental Executive Committee; Steering Committee of the AIA Design for Aging Center; Reviewer of manuscripts for Journal of Architecture & Planning Research and the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Board of Directors
