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Dr. Harris received a Ph.D.
in Social Welfare from Case Western Reserve
University and a Masters in Social Work with
a specialty in Gerontology from the University
of Michigan. She is currently licensed
as an LISW in all three areas: individual, group,
and administration/research.
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Dr. Harris completed Post-Doctoral
work in Sociology at Case Western Reserve University,
where she specialized in the areas of Aging
and Mental Health. She is the director of John
Carroll University's Interdisciplinary
Concentration on Aging. For additional information,
you may contact her directly.
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She has received training fellowships
from: The National Institute of Aging, National
Institute of Mental Health, Veterans Administration
Health Services Research and Development, and
The Gerontological Society of America; and grants
from The Ford Foundation/Council of Graduate
Schools, The Cleveland Foundation, Schnurmann
Foundation, JCU Grauel Fellowship, JCU Summer
Research Fellowships, Fenn Foundation, Matsushita
Foundation, and the National Institution of
Aging.
Some of her publications include these
books:
1) Men giving care: Reflections and husbands
and sons. (1997). New York: Garland Publishing,
with Joyce Bichler.
2) The person with Alzheimers
disease: Pathways to understanding the experience.
(2002). Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University
Press.
And a few journal articles and book chapters are:
1) Caring for bedridden elderly:
Ideals, realities and social change in Japan. (1997).
In S. Formanek & S. Linhart (eds.), Aging
Asian concepts and experiences . Vienna, Austria:
The Austrian Academy of Science, with Susan Long.
2) Listening
to caregiving sons: Misunderstood realities.
(1998). The Gerontologist,
38 (3), 342-352.
3) Husbands
and sons in the United States and Japan: Cultural
expectations and caregiving experiences. (1999). Journal
of Aging Studies, 13 (3), 241-268, with Susan
Long.
4) Insider's
perspective:
Defining and preserving the self in Dementia. (1999). Journal of Mental Health and
Aging, 5 (3), 241-256.
5) The voices
of husbands and sons caring for a family member
with dementia. (2001) In B.J. Kramer &
E.H. Thompson (Eds.), Men as caregivers: Theory
research &service implications, New York:
Springer Publishers.
6) Building resilience through
adapting and coping. (2002). In P.B.
Harris (Ed.), The Person with Alzheimer's
disease: Pathways to Understanding the experience (Pp.
165-185). Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University
Press, with K.C. Durkin.
7) The perspective
of younger people with dementia: Still an overlooked
population. (2004).
Social Work in Mental Health, 2 (1), 17-36.
8) Living with
early on-set dementia:Exploring the experience
and developing evidence-based guidelines for
practice. (2004). Alzheimer's Care Quarterly,
5 (2), 111-122, with John Keady.
9) HIV Risk
Factors For Midlife and Older Women. (2005).
The Gerontologist, 45 (2), 617-625, with Marcia
Neundorfer, Paula Britton, and Deloris Lynch.
10) The
Experience of Living Alone with Early Stage Alzheimer's
Disease: What are the Person's Concerns.
(2006). Alzheimer's
Care Quarterly, 7 (2), 84-95.
11) People with Early Stage
Alzheimer's disease as Mentors: Developing A
Truly Collaborative Research Process. (2007).
Alzheimer's Care Today, 8 (3), 259-265.
12) Another
Wrinkle in the Debate About Successful Aging:
The Underdeveloped Concept of Resilience and
the Lived Experience of Dementia. (2008). Aging
and Human Development, 67 (1), 43-61.
13) Intimacy, Sexuality,
and Early-Stage Dementia: The Changing Marital
Relationship. (2009). Alzheimer’s
Care Today, 19 (2), 63-77.
14) Selfhood
in younger onset dementia: Transitions and
testimonies. (2009). Aging & Mental
Health, 13,
(3), 437–444., with John Keady.
15) Dementia
and dementia care: The contributions of a psychosocial
perspective. (2010). Sociological Compass,
4(4), 249-262.
16) A framework
for working with people with early
stage dementia: A relationship – focused
approach to counseling. (2010).Social
Work in Health Care Settings: Practice in Context (203-214).
New York: Routledge, with K.C. Durkin.
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Dr.
Harris is a Professor and Chair of the Sociology and Criminology
Department, and director of the Aging Studies Program.
She is also a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America
and Co-Editor of Dementia: The International Journal of
Social Research and Practice published by SAGE. Dr.
Harris was selected to receive the 2009
JCU Distinguished Faculty Award. In
April 2008 Dr. Harris received the Educator
of the Year Award from the Ohio Association of Gerontology
and Education. Among the assets that she brings to the
university are three important areas of teaching, research
and practice in 1) Aging Studies, 2) Poverty and Social
Welfare, and 3) Social Work and Counseling. Her research
interests are Alzheimer's disease and dementia care, cross
cultural gerontology, gender and aging. and HIV/AIDS and
older women. Dr. Harris presents nationally and internationally
on these topics.