Diana White, Ph.D.
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Project Director Currently accepting Ph.D. students. |
Diana White, PhD, is Assistant Professor and the CGNE Project Director at the School of Nursing. She is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Center and provides support to the faculty and program directors. She also is the liaison between the BPI and the Better Jobs Better Care project, serving as evaluator for that program. Her research interests include intergenerational family relationships in later life, family bereavement, and work environments of direct care workers. She currently is Principal Investigator for Developing and Evaluating tools to Measure Family Perspectives about Person-Centered Care for Persons with Dementia in Long-term Care Settings (funded by the Oregon Tax Check-off Alzheimer’s Research Committee). Prior to her work with CGNE, Dr. White was Deputy Director of the Oregon Geriatric Education Center and before that was a co-investigator on a VA Health Services Research &Development project to develop information synthesis methodology.
Education
Oregon State University,
Ph.D., Human Development & Family Studies
Teaching
Graduate Student Advising
Research
Funded research: Better Jobs Better Care Demonstration Grant (evaluation subcontract) funded by the Atlantic Philanthropies & Robert Wood Johnson Foundations; Developing & Evaluating Measures of Family Perspectives about Person-Centered Care for Persons with Dementia in Long-Term Care Settings funded by the Oregon Alzheimer’s Disease Research Small Grants Program.
Committees Activities
- Boards: Oregon Gerontological Association (Board); Make Oregon Vital for Elders (Steering Committee)
- Organizations: Oregon Gerontological Association, Geroontological Society of America; National Council on Family Relations.
Publications
Boise, L., & White, D. (2004). Understanding the place of the family in person-centered care: Practical considerations. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 42 (5), 12-19.
Walker, A.J., Manoogian-O’Dell, M. McGraw, L. A., & White, D. L. (2001). Families in Later Life: Connections and Transitions. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
White, D. L. (1999). Grandparent participation in times of family bereavement. In B. DeVries (Ed.). End of life issues: Interdisciplinary and multidimensional perspectives. New York: Springer.