Our Team
Clare Luz, PhD, DirectorClare Luz, PhD, is an Assistant Professor, MSU-College of Osteopathic Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine and founding director of AgeAlive and IMPART Alliance. She is a nationally recognized gerontologist with over 40 years of experience, starting out as a direct care worker followed by fifteen years as a clinical social worker, all with older adults in long-term care settings, then twenty plus years in academia, first as lead research director for the MSU College of Human Medicine then as a gerontologist conducting research, primarily on the direct care workforce and the intersection of the arts, humanities and health. She was the Research PI for the HRSA-funded Building Training…Building Quality ™ (BTBQ™) project, a comprehensive PCA training program.
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Becky Cordes, VolunteerBecky is a student in the Organization and Community Leadership track of the Master of Social Work Program at MSU and is completing the Levande Program in Gerontology Certificate. Becky is also in the MSW Research Scholar program where she is currently working on creating an intergenerational education program for MSU students and retirees who are family caregivers. With over 20 years experience in human services, Becky started her career in direct care for adults with disabilities living in group homes. She then spent 14 years working in an employment day program for adults with disabilities, and was the director for three Adult Day Programs. In the future, Becky is interested in organizational leadership and program policy development related to gerontology.
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