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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 Casey Durkin (2002).
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.
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Dr.
Harris is a Professor and Chair of the Sociology 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. 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.