September 2, 2025Healthy aging scholar and gerontologist Li-Mei Chen warns that older adults aged 60 years and older face disproportionate risks of dehydration, heat stroke, exhaustion, and other heat-related illnesses.
August 15, 2025Holly Matto, addiction science researcher, and College of Science and School of Engineering colleagues provide breakthrough findings about personalized recovery cues and technology-based substance use interventions.
August 26, 2024Megumi Inoue, an associate professor in George Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Department of Social Work, led a study-abroad program where students explored the policies, programs, and services in place in Japan to support its aging population.
June 25, 2024New findings published in the Journal for Applied Gerontology by College of Public Health researchers suggest that personalized music intervention, especially with songs from adolescence and early adulthood, is effective at reducing the use of medication, alleviating agitation levels, and enhancing mood and social engagement among nursing home residents living with dementia.
May 29, 2024Interprofessional research study from Â鶹ÊÓƵ found that family caregivers of older adults living with dementia experienced a 15% drop in stress after a 9-week online peer support program Â
April 2, 2024Denise Hines seeks to reduce stereotypes and bias of men from racial and ethnic minority communities who experience intimate partner violence
March 1, 2024Older adults hope intergenerational mentoring programs will combat later life stereotypes in health care, according to a recent study. Photo by Andrea Piacquadio via pexels.
January 25, 2024Â鶹ÊÓƵ researcher Daphne King, EdD, assistant professor in the Department of Social Work, wants to use Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month (February) to continue bringing awareness to intimate partner violence in young people.
January 24, 202428 Master of Social Work students work with a substance-engaged adolescent in a Virtual Reality simulation. The majority of students felt more prepared to respond to changes in their client’s condition after participating in the simulationÂ
Dr. Li-Mei Chen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work since Fall 2023. Chen’s teaching and research focuses on dementia and aging, productive aging, intersectionality and role of lifecourse in older ethnic minorities, community gerontology, and social policy. She teaches BSW SOCW 312 Knowledge Building for Helping Professionals.
