Quality Assisted Living

Leslie A. Morgan, PhD, is Associate Dean at the Erickson School of Aging Studies, Codirector of the Gerontology Doctoral Program, and Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Dr. Morgan has 27 years of experience in teaching and research in aging and has published on a variety of topics, from economic well-being and family relationships to assisted living. She has authored or coauthored three books and numerous articles. Dr. Morgan has been principal or coprincipal investigator on several NIH-funded studies of life in assisted living, examining the quality of resident experience and transitions among residents, along with her coauthors of this book. ||J. Kevin Eckert, PhD, Dean and Professor, Erickson School of Aging Studies, UMBC widely recognized as a leading expert on board and care, as well as a co-author of the text Small Board-and-Care Homes: Residential Care in Transition. |Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD, Professor, School of Social Work, Co-Director, Program on Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has conducted numerous research projects directly studying nearly ten thousand residents of long-term care settings and has published widely. |Ann Christine Frankowski, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Erickson School, Center for Aging Studies, UMBC; Adjunct Assistant professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, UMBC |Erin Gianella Roth, MA, Ethnographer, Senior Research Analyst, Stigma and the Cultural Context of Residential Settings for the Elderly and Stakeholders Models of Quality in Assisted Living, Center for Aging Studies, UMBC |Leanne J. Clark, MGS, PhD , Doctoral Program in Gerontology, UMBC