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Pamela Nadash, PhD, BPhil

Pamela Nadash, PhD, BPhil

Pamela Nadash is an Associate Professor of Gerontology at University of Massachusetts Boston, in the Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences and Fellow of the LeadingAge LTSS Center@UMass Boston. Her work centers on health policy and aging: specifically, the...
Omar

Omar

Omar has been through a rough experience caring for his wife, who received a heart and kidney transplant. He has supported her through everything and helps her with whatever she needs. This has been especially challenging because Omar worked in Georgia during the...
Gina

Gina

Gina cares for four people in total: two of her five children and both of her parents. Gina has a 14-year-old son with undiagnosed schizophrenia and diabetes, an 11-year-old son with autism, a father with heart disease, and a mother recovering from a brain tumor....

Karen

Karen has the mindset that you do what you can to help family, so she began to do the shopping and other small tasks for her mother in 2010. In addition, Karen has a background in finance, so she helped her mother, aunt, and uncle with their finances. By 2016, Mimi...
Claire

Claire

Claire’s husband was diagnosed with idiopathic cardiomyopathy several years ago, leading to the eventual need for a heart transplant, which he has now received. Claire did not become his care partner immediately upon diagnosis because he was still very fit and active,...
Katie

Katie

Katie is the mother of a 20-year-old son born with physical and intellectual disabilities caused by a rare disease. The factors of her son’s care have been constantly changing, meaning the caregiving process has changed as well. As her son’s primary caregiver and...
Jeannette

Jeannette

 Jeannette’s husband returned from Iraq with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury, signs and symptoms of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, and advanced bone and disc degeneration. His symptoms got worse over time, but Jeannette knew things were...
Jennifer M.

Jennifer M.

Jennifer M. is a caregiver for her younger brother, who was wounded in Iraq in 2005, and her mother, who suffered a stroke in 2007. Jennifer feels that early intervention for caregivers is important because it can help alleviate some of the negative impacts, both...