The Journal of Elder Policy Volume 1, Number 1, Summer 2020 | Page 3

Editor in Chief
Journal of Elder Policy
EDITORIAL BOARD
Eva Kahana, PhD
Case Western Reserve University (CWRU)
Distinguished University Professor Robson Professor of Sociology, Humanities, Applied
Social Science, Nursing and Medicine, Director, Elderly Care Research Center
Managing Editorial Assistant
Kaitlyn Barnes Langendoerfer, MA, PhD Candidate, CWRU
Editorial Assistants
Polina Ermoshkina, MS, MGS, PhD Candidate, CWRU
Timothy Goler, PhD, Norfolk State University
Editorial Board Members
Jacqueline Angel, PhD, University of Texas, Austin
Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology, Faculty affiliate at the Population Research
Center and LBJ School Center for Health and Social Policy
Research Interests: social inequality, health, minority and Latino aging
Anne Barrett, PhD, Florida State University
Professor of Sociology, Director of Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy
Research Interests: subjective aging, gender and aging, social relationships in later life
Naomi R. Cahn, PhD, George Washington University
Harold H. Greene Professor of Law
Research Interests: gender and aging, familial caregiving, financial and medical
planning and security
Lin Chen, PhD, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Associate Professor of Social Work
Research Interests: older adults’ caregiving relationship in the contexts of family,
community, and nursing homes; implications of urbanization for caregiving in China;
and developments in social and health policy for older adults
Ken Covinsky, MD, MPH, University of California, San Francisco
Professor of Medicine
Research Interests: hospital acquired disability; determinants and outcomes of
functional impairment; quality of life in vulnerable elders
Richard H. Fortinsky, PhD, University of Connecticut
Professor and Health Net, Inc. Endowed Chair in Geriatrics and Gerontology, School of
Medicine and UConn Center on Aging
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