About
The goal of the Emory Roybal Center for Dementia Caregiving Mastery is to provide support to investigators across the nation to conduct NIH Stage I-III behavioral intervention research that will enhance the context specific role-mastery of informal caregivers of persons living with Alzheimer’s disease and similar illnesses.
Informal caregiving is the key to the quality of life and continued community living of persons living with Alzheimer’s and similar illnesses; it is also a bulwark against rising health care costs. Our Center rests on the premise that informal caregiving is not one homogenous entity but is context specific. As the U.S. continues to experience major reconfigurations in its social and demographic composition (we will, for instance, be a “minority majority” country by 2043), we expect caregiving to occur in an ever-increasing set of heterogeneous contexts. These contexts are framed by various illness conditions, family, cultural, or social caregiving situations, geographical location, and care recipients’ transitions through care settings, especially the acute setting.
Center Co-Directors
- Allan Levey (Co-Chair)
- Camille Vaughn (Co-Chair)
- Fayron Recha Epps
- Gina Critchet
- Ted Johnson
- Candace Kemp
- Bryan Owens
- Ryan Youngblood
Theresa (Terri) Harvath, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA
Professor & Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives
Director, Family Caregiving Institute
Richard H. Fortinsky, PhD
Professor and Health Net, Inc. Endowed Chair in Geriatrics and Gerontology
UConn Center on Aging | UConn Health
Katie Maslow, MSW
Director, Initiative on Alzheimer’s and Managed Care
Gerontological Society of America (Scholar)
- Malcolma Brown
- Jill Disney
- Sharon Hall
- Babette Overman
- Ret Siefferman
- Aline Stone
- Chris Tann
- Hillary Thomas
- Nancy Anne Williams
