Effective and Rigorous Recruitment of Older Adults Living Alone with Cognitive Impairment
- ASU Roybal Center
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Monday, June 22, 2026 | 11am-12pm MST
Dr. Elena Portacolone is a Professor of Sociology in the Institute for Health & Aging and a Pepper Center Scholar at the Division of Geriatric Medicine at UCSF. She is also affiliated with UCSF’s Philip Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Global Health Sciences Institute. Her research involves developing equitable policies and programs for older adults living alone with cognitive impairment in the US and worldwide.
Webinar Overview
Dr. Portacolone will discuss issues associated with screening, consent, recruitment, and eligibility for older adults living alone with cognitive impairment. Building on her experience, including leading a large qualitative study involving multiple interviews (n=486) with over 100 racially and ethnically diverse older adults living alone in 3 states, Dr. Portacolone will share the protocols from the US-based Living Alone with Cognitive Impairment study, provide strategies to help guide other research studies, and discuss lessons learned along the way.
Webinar Overview
Join the Roybal Center for Promoting Adherence to Behavior Change and Enhancing Cognitive Function for an upcoming webinar, Tuesday, April 7, 2026, at 12:00 pm ET.
This webinar will feature Dr. Martin Sliwinski, Gregory H. Wolf Professor of Aging Studies and Professor of Human Development & Family Studies at Penn State University. Dr Sliwinski is also Director of the Center for Healthy Aging and the Geroscience and Dementia Prevention Consortium. Dr. Sliwinski's presentation, titled 'Measuring a Moving Target: Ambulatory Methods for Capturing Cognitive Change in Daily Life,' will discuss ambulatory methods for studying cognitive change as it occurs in everyday life.