Research
NSF-Smart Health and Wellbeing Program
Medium Collaborative Research: Non-Intrusive Mult-Patient Fall-Risk Monitoring
Overview: Risk of Falling and Older Adults
Fear of Falling and Older Adults: Finding Balance
Professional Caregivers: What You Can Do to Prevent Falls in Older Adults
Center for Gerontology joins MetLife and NCPEA to conduct research on Financial Elder Abuse
MetLife Broken Trust Study 2011
MetLife Broken Trust Highlights
MetLife Elder Abuse Family Tips 2011
MetLife Elder Abuse Older Adult Tips
Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Aging Women: Promoting Community Knowledge
An academic-community partnership between the Women’s Resource Center of the New River Valley and the Center for Gerontology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and supported by an award (R03HD059478) from the National Institutes of Health/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD).
Intimate Partner Violence in Late Life: A Review of Empirical Literature 1999-2009
MetLife Mature Market Institute
A Study on Elder Financial Abuse Prevention by the MetLife Mature Market Institute, the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse, and the Center for Gerontology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Broken Trust: Elders, Family, and Finances
Helpful Hints-Preventing Elder Financial Abuse for Family Caregivers
Helpful Hints-Preventing Elder Financial Abuse
Family Relations
Roberto, K.A., Blieszner, R., & Allen, K.R. (2006). Theorizing in Family Gerontology: New opportunities for research and practice. Family Relations, 55, 513-525.
Article Database:
Journal of Women & Aging
Roberto, K.A., Perkins, S.N., & Holland, A.K. (2007). Research on persistent pain in late life: Current topics and challenges. Journal of Women & Aging, 19(3/4), 5-20