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About the Research

Aging with Pride: IDEA is the first federally-funded project testing a program designed to improve quality of life for LGBTQ people who experience memory loss or who help those experiencing memory loss.

IDEA is led by University of Washington School of Social Work professor Karen Fredriksen Goldsen and UW Nursing professor Linda Teri. Dr. Fredriksen Goldsen is the primary investigator for Aging with Pride: National Health, Aging, and Sexuality/Gender Study (NHAS), the first national longitudinal study of health and well-being in LGBTQ older adults, and Dr. Teri pioneered the RDAD (Reducing Disabilities in Alzheimer’s Disease) program, which has been shown to improve quality of life for people with memory loss and reduce rates of institutionalization.

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Researchers

Karen I. Fredriksen Goldsen, PhD

CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Dr. Fredriksen-Goldsen is a Professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work, Director of Healthy Generations Hartford Center of Excellence, and Director of Institute for Multigenerational Health. Dr. Fredriksen Goldsen is a Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare and the Gerontological Society of America, and a Hartford Scholar and Mentor, and founder of Generations Aging with Pride, GSA Rainbow Research Group, and Shanti/Seattle. She received her PhD in Social Welfare from the University of California at Berkeley.

Linda Teri, PhD

CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Dr. Teri is nationally and internationally regarded as one of the world’s leading experts in nonpharmacological treatments in dementia care. She has over thirty years of direct clinical and research experience in working with older adults with dementia and their caregivers, including family members and professionals in various health professions.

Hyun-Jun Kim, PhD

PROJECT DIRECTOR

Dr. Kim research interests include health disparities in historically disadvantaged older adult communities and the role of human agency and social relationships in the interplay of well-being, health-related quality of life, multiple identities, and cultural resources. Dr. Kim is a Gerontological Society of America Fellow. He completed his PhD in Social Welfare at the University of Washington, School of Social Work in 2009.

Charles A. Emlet, PhD

CO-INVESTIGATOR

Dr. Emlet is a Fellow of Gerontological Society of America, a member of the Association of Gerontological Education in Social Work (AGE-SW), the National Association of Social Workers, and in 2013 was a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair and Fulbright Scholar at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario, Canada. His current areas of research include older persons living with HIV/AIDS and LGBT aging. He received his PhD in Social Welfare from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

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