Title
Professor of the Graduate School

Department
School of Social Welfare


Faculty URL
http://socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/andrew-scharlach

Email
scharlac@berkeley.edu

Phone
(510) 642-0126


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Research Expertise and Interest
aging, social welfare, family issues, aging-friendly communities, long-term care policies

Research Description
Professor of the Graduate School?Andrew Scharlach served as the longtime?Eugene and Rose Kleiner Professor of Aging at the School of Social Welfare. He also directed?the Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services.
Dr. Scharlach’s research examines innovative?social and community supports designed to promote healthy aging.?His current multi-year program of research examines?emerging initiatives for helping communities to become more aging-friendly. Dr. Scharlach’s other research interests include aging policies, programs?and services; social support; family caregiving; work/family issues; death, dying?and bereavement; as well as gerontological social work education.
Dr. Scharlach has published nearly 100 articles and is the author of five?books:?Creating Aging-Friendly Communities?(with A. Lehning), Healthy Aging in Sociocultural Context?(with K. Hoshino),?Elder Care and the Work Force: Blueprint for Action?(with B. Lowe and E. Schneider),?Controversial Issues in Aging?(with L. Kaye) and?Families and Work: New Directions in the Twenty-FirstCentury?(with K. Fredriksen-Goldsen).