De Medeiros, Kate

Kate de Medeiros, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Gerontology and Scripps Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Gerontology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Dr. de Medeiros is a gerontologist with research interests in the narrative construction of self in old age, genre and the life story, the meaning of generativity in later life, and understanding how "friendship" is defined and experienced by people with advanced dementia. Her studies have been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Brookdale Foundation, and the Alzheimer's Association. In 2008, she was selected as one of