A national leader in gerontology, Howard Degenholtz specializes in long-term services and supports and home- and community-based services. He developed self-reported quality-of-life measures for nursing home residents and co-authored a seminal paper on the benefits of the Green House model. His research has shown that older adults using consumer-directed personal care are not at increased risk of hospitalization, and he led a randomized trial demonstrating improved quality of life through tailored, individualized care planning. He has also studied end-of-life care in community and nursing home settings, examining advance directives and racial and ethnic disparities, with findings showing that older adults with advance care plans are less likely to experience terminal hospitalization. In organ and tissue donation, he developed and tested approaches to incorporate donor designation into primary care and implemented web-based training in driver’s license centers through randomized trials. He also hosts and produces The Gerontologist Podcast, published by the Gerontological Society of America and available on major podcast platforms.

Cal J. Halvorsen, PhD, MSW is gerontological social work researcher who focuses on the productive engagement of older adults, particularly through paid work, volunteering, and intergenerational initiatives. He is an associate professor at both the Brown School and Burksy School of Public Health, and the co-director of the Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging, at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also a project lead and investigator within the Center for Work, Health, & Well-being at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and a research affiliate within the Unit of Occupational Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Within GSA, Cal is the vice chair of the Social Research, Practice, and Policy section.