Public Health Insider | The Caregiving Conundrum: Complex Challenges and an Uncertain Future
Caregiving affects both older adults and younger adults, who may be caring for children as well as aging parents. And the number of those in advanced age is growing.
By 2030, 1 in 5 Americans is projected to be 65 or older, and this generation desires a more holistic approach to aging and caregiving, especially in underserved populations/communities.
Join College of Public Health and Human Sciences and the Center for Healthy Aging Research faculty Karen Hooker and Carolyn Mendez-Luck as they discuss who will provide that care and who, in turn, will provide for them?
About the speakers:
Karen Hooker is the Petersen Chair in Gerontology and Family Studies and professor in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University. She was the founder and inaugural director of the Center for Healthy Aging Research at Oregon State, and her research interests are in adult development and aging and understanding psychosocial factors related to mental and physical health outcomes.
She has served in leadership roles and as a scientific reviewer for several professional organizations and is published widely in leading journals. She also has co-authored books on intraindividual variability, mental health and aging, and has written numerous book chapters. She is currently the associate editor for Psychology and Aging and is on the editorial board for the Journal of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences. Her work has been funded by NSF, NIH and several foundations.
Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck is an associate professor of health management and policy at Oregon State University’s College of Public Health and Human Sciences. Mendez-Luck's research addresses aging-related health disparities and long-term care in Latinx and other vulnerable adult populations. Her research is community-based, interdisciplinary and rooted in principles of health equity. She was a 2020-21 Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow and was placed with the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging under Chairman Bob Casey (D-PA).
Mendez-Luck received a B.S. in Biology from the University of Southern California and an MPH and Ph.D. in Public Health from UCLA. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Center for the Study of Healthcare Provider Behavior in Sepulveda, California.
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