Author, instructor, social worker and scholar. She earned a master's degree in social work from the University of Pittsburgh. She worked as the director of human resources at the Philadelphia Geriatric Center before broadening her responsibilities to include research into the effects of aging on elderly individuals and families. She taught psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine and served on a number of professional journal editorial boards and foundation review committees. In 1969, she and M. Powell Lawton developed the Physical Self-Maintenance Scale. Its purpose was to measure disability in elderly individuals living in a community or institution in order to plan and evaluate therapy. She published more than 200 academic articles and six books on her research and received numerous awards. She became president of the Gerontological Society of America in 1980. Ms. Magazine named her Woman of the Year in 1985 for documenting the challenges faced by women in the middle, a term she used to describe working mothers raising their children while also caring for their aging parents. She was named a distinguished scholar of the National Academies of Practice and received an honorary doctorate from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1986. The Gerontological Society of America awarded her the M. Powell Lawton Award in 2007.
Author, instructor, social worker and scholar. She earned a master's degree in social work from the University of Pittsburgh. She worked as the director of human resources at the Philadelphia Geriatric Center before broadening her responsibilities to include research into the effects of aging on elderly individuals and families. She taught psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine and served on a number of professional journal editorial boards and foundation review committees. In 1969, she and M. Powell Lawton developed the Physical Self-Maintenance Scale. Its purpose was to measure disability in elderly individuals living in a community or institution in order to plan and evaluate therapy. She published more than 200 academic articles and six books on her research and received numerous awards. She became president of the Gerontological Society of America in 1980. Ms. Magazine named her Woman of the Year in 1985 for documenting the challenges faced by women in the middle, a term she used to describe working mothers raising their children while also caring for their aging parents. She was named a distinguished scholar of the National Academies of Practice and received an honorary doctorate from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1986. The Gerontological Society of America awarded her the M. Powell Lawton Award in 2007.
Bio by: Debbie Gibbons
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