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Contact Information
Program Director: Phone: Email: aging@mtsu.edu |
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AGING STUDIES FACULTY Aging Studies Program Director Dr. J Brandon Wallace, Professor Center for Health & Human Services Dr. M. Jo Edwards,
Professor Health and Human Performance Dr. Victoria Dawn Shelar, Professor Human Sciences Ms. Stephanie Bush, Instructor Dr. Catherine D. Stogner,
Associate Professor Nursing Judy Campbell, Professor Psychology Dr. Janet Belsky, Professor Dr. Dennis Papini, Professor and Chair Social Work Dr. Margaret A. Fontanesi-Seime,
Professor Sociology Dr. Ron Aday, Professor Foster K. Amey, Associate Professor Brian Hinote, Assistant Professor Speech and Theatre Dr. Bertha S. Clark, Professor |
Faculty News
Dr. Janet Belsky, Psychology, is currently
Vice-President of the Board of Directors’ for Elder's First, a new adult
day care in Murfreesboro. She is also completing the second Edition of
Experiencing the
Lifespan (Worth,2009), an undergraduate text
in lifespan development being used at over 200 colleges and
universities. The book won a textbook excellence award in 2008 for Best
New Textbook in the Humanities and Social Sciences from the Textbook
Authors Association.
Dr. Margaret Fontanessi-Seime, Social Work, attended the 35th Annual Association for Gerontology in Higher Education Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. According to Dr. Seime, there were so many interesting and informative workshops that it was hard to choose which to attend. She also met some wonderful and interesting people. For example, Kareen King, who has taken words from various Alzheimer's patients and turned their words into songs. King has a CD out and does concerts in addition. AGHE will include an international component next year and Dr. Seime is planning to attend and present at the conference. Dr. Brian Hinote, Sociology, is working with National Health Care Corporation in their new Clinical Residency in Physical Therapy program, conducting training seminars on the sociology and demography of aging. He is planning additional sessions on health research and indicates there may be opportunities for other faculty to become involved at a later date. Dr. Brandon Wallace, Sociology, presented a paper title “Age, Sex, and Race Differences in End-of-Life Care in Nursing Homes” at the Southern Sociological Society Meetings. The paper represents a continuation of Dr. Wallace’s recent work on the quality of end-of-life care in nursing homes. |