Adrienne Powell Ruffin, DSL, is vice president and head of LTSS Strategic Initiatives and Operations in the Washington, DC office of the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston. She is responsible for leading the LTSS Center’s strategic initiatives and overseeing the center’s day-to-day operations, ongoing infrastructure development, and research administration. Ruffin…...
Xiaomei Shi
Xiaomei Shi is senior statistician at Matrix Health Network, where she supports the research, policy, and analyses used by government agencies, insurers, managed care organizations, foundations, and trade associations on issues related to private and public initiatives in long-term care finance. Previously, she was senior statistician at LifePlans, Inc. Shi’s…...
Claire Wickersham
Claire Wickersham is a senior research associate at the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston. She holds a doctorate in gerontology from UMass Boston, a master’s in gerontological studies from Miami University in Oxford, OH, and a bachelor of science in speech and hearing science from the State University of…...
Katie Sloan
Katie Smith Sloan is president and CEO of LeadingAge, and executive director of the Global Ageing Network, a global organization committed to improving the quality of life for people as they age. She joined LeadingAge in April 2002, after serving in key leadership positions at AARP, where she was responsible…...
Robyn Stone
Robyn I. Stone, DrPH, is senior vice president of research at LeadingAge, and co-director of the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston. Stone was a political appointee in the Clinton Administration, serving in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as deputy assistant secretary for disability, aging, and long-term care…...
Molly Wylie
Molly Wylie is a research associate in the Washington, DC office of the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston. Her work focuses on how older adults and their caregivers navigate options for long-term home and community-based services, with attention to the influence of health literacy and self-efficacy. Wylie is a…...
Jane Tavares
Jane Tavares, PhD, is an adjunct instructor in the Department of Gerontology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Tavares has extensive experience working with large-scale representative panel data, such as the Health and Retirement Study. Her primary research explores how social relationships and social participation are associated with various aspects of…...
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