Nancy R. Hooyma n holds the Hooyman Professorship of
Gerontology and is Dean Emeritus at the School of Social Work at
the University of Washington. Her MSW and PhD in sociology and
social work are from the University of Michigan. She is nationally
recognized for her scholarship in aging and multigenerational
policy and practice, gender inequities in family caregiving, and
feminist gerontology. In addition to this textbook, Dr. Hooyman is
the co-author of Living through Loss: Interventions across the Life
Span; Taking Care of Aging Family Members; and Feminist
Perspectives on Family Care: Policies for Gender Justice, and
editor of Transforming Social Work Education: The First Decade of
the Hartford Geriatric Social Work Initiative.
She has published over 130 articles and chapters and is a frequent
national and international presenter on issues related to
gerontology, multigenerational perspectives in aging, and older
women. She is co-principal investigator of the Council on Social
Work Education’s National Center for Gerontological Social Work
Education, which for 15 years advanced gerontological competencies
and content in social work curriculum. A fellow in the
Gerontological Society of America, Dr. Hooyman is past-chair of
GSA’s Social Research, Policy and Practice Section. She received
the Significant Lifetime Achievement in Social Work Education Award
from the Council on Social Work Education in 2009 and was inducted
into the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare in
2010.
H. Asuman Kiyak (1951–2011) was director of the University
of Washington Institute on Aging, professor in the School of
Dentistry, and adjunct professor in the Departments of Architecture
and Psychology at the University of Washington. She obtained her MA
and PhD in psychology at Wayne State University. Professor Kiyak
was the recipient of major research grants — from NIH, CDC, AOA,
the State of Washington, and private foundations — in the areas of
health promotion and health service utilization by older adults, as
well as in person-environment adaptation to Alzheimer’s disease by
patients and their caregivers.
She published over 130 articles and 35 chapters in these areas and
was known nationally and internationally for her research on
geriatric dental care and the application of psychological theory
to health promotion. In 2000, she received the Distinguished
Scientist Award from the International Association for Dental
Research and served as president of the Geriatric Oral Research and
the Behavioral Sciences and Health Services Research Groups of
IADR. Dr. Kiyak was principal investigator of a large clinical
trial in geriatric dentistry, funded by the National Institute of
Dental and Craniofacial Research, and of two studies of a
community-based health promotion study funded by the CDC. In 2003,
she was named Distinguished Professor of Geriatrics at UCLA and
received the Teaching Excellence Award from the University of
Washington Educational Outreach division. Professor Kiyak was a
fellow in the Gerontological Society of America.
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