Lee Lindquist
Northwestern University, IL·Medicine & Clinical Research
Most older adults want to keep living in their own homes. Alzheimer's dementia, however, often forces a choice between bringing support into the home and moving into a care facility.
- Fields
Medicine & Clinical Research
Public Health & Epidemiology
Social Science
- Topics
Alzheimer's disease
dementia
aging in place
- Grants
- 2 known grants, through Nov 2030
What they work on
- Track how aging-in-place and long-term care plans change over 84 months in a cohort of 293 older adults who used PlanYourLifespan.org, examining the roles of cognition, physical function, family and environment.
- Assess whether older adults' care decisions are actually carried out and match their goals, by interviewing both the older adults and their family and friend caregivers.
- Examine how age-related changes, social influences and environment interact to shape both planning and the real-world carrying out of care choices.
- Map the caregiving networks of 200 people with Alzheimer's disease in Illinois, Indiana and Hawaii using Network Canvas social network software, to show how people define 'family' caregivers.
- Identify which features of caregiver networks, including positive and negative relationships, predict the psychological and physical wellbeing of caregivers and people with dementia.
More about the research
Families are frequently unprepared when that moment arrives. This research studies how older adults plan for aging in place and for long-term care, how those plans are actually carried out over time, and who really provides care for people with Alzheimer's disease. Two projects address these questions. One follows the same older adults for years as their plans change. The other maps the whole network of relatives and friends who help care for a person with dementia.
Why it matters
When older adults have not planned ahead, relatives must make urgent decisions during a crisis such as worsening Alzheimer's dementia. Findings could help doctors, insurers, caregivers and older adults support care choices that match a person's own goals. Better ways to measure caregiver networks could also show which family dynamics help or harm the wellbeing of caregivers and of people living with dementia.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Kalisha Johnson
Emory University, GA·Medicine & Clinical Research·Early-career
Examine how behavioral, sociocultural and environmental factors shape formal care decisions and quality of life among African American people living with dementia and their adult daughter caregivers, using dyadic data analysis.
Safiyyah Okoye
Drexel University, PA·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Characterize housing disrepair, such as roof, wall, heating or plumbing problems, among U.S. older adults, and test its links to functional disability in low-income older adults.
Manka Nkimbeng
University of Minnesota, MN·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Explore the experiences and care strategies of high-risk New American older adults with dementia and their informal family caregivers.
The school
Northwestern University: 71 labs on PI Pages, $1.3B a year on research, 536 research doctorates a year.
Reach out
A start for your email. Fill in the brackets.