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    Preference Based Living

    © 2013 by Polisher Research Institute

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    The M. Powell Lawton Award

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    2008 Recipient:
    Louis (Lou) Burgio , PhD

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    Dr. Lou Burgio, PhD is currently a Harold R. Johnson Professor
    of Social Work and research professor, Institute of Gerontology, at the
    University of Michigan. He was most recently distinguished as a university
    research professor of clinical psychology at the University of Alabama at
    Tuscaloosa. He has done extensive research in applied gerontology, focusing on
    developing interventions for the behavioral complications of dementia in nursing
    homes and working with dementia caregivers in the community to ease the stress
    and burden of caregiving.
     
    ​He has authored over 150 articles that have appeared in such
    journals as The Gerontologist, Journals of Gerontology, and the Journal of the
    American Geriatrics Society. He has served on 10 journal editorial boards and on
    ad hoc grant review panels for NINR, NIMH, and the Alzheimer's Association. Dr.
    Burgio has received grant funding from NIA, NINR, CDC, the Alzheimer's
    Association, and the Retirement Research Foundation and completed a term on the
    National Advisory Council for Nursing Research at NIH (2002-2006). Dr. Burgio
    has received continuous funding from NIH since 1990.

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