Joe Gaugler is the Robert L. Kane Endowed Chair in Long-Term Care & Aging in the School of Public Health and a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota.  He is the Director of the Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation, Director of the national BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving, and Editor-in-Chief of The Gerontologist. His research focuses on dementia care innovation.

Deborah Carr is professor of sociology and director of the Center for Innovation in Social Science at Boston University. Her research uses large longitudinal data sets to study health and well-being in old age, with an emphasis on family relations, economic inequality, and end-of-life issues. She has published more than 100 articles and chapters, and several books including Aging in America (University of California Press, 2023) and Golden Years? Social Inequality in Later Life (Russell Sage, 2019), which received the 2020 Kalish Innovative Publication Award from GSA. She received the 2022 Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award and 2023 Mentoring Award from the American Sociological Association’s section on Aging & Life Course. She is former editor-in-chief of Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences and current editor-in-chief of Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Lindsay Peterson, PhD, is an assistant research professor at the School of Aging Studies at the University of South Florida and director of the Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging. Dr. Peterson began her career in daily journalism, covering aging in Florida for several years. She shifted careers to teaching and research in 2016 after receiving a PhD in Aging Studies at USF. Her research largely involves quality in long-term care, with a focus on disaster preparedness in nursing homes, assisted living, and home- and community-based settings. She has considerable experience in qualitative research, leading teams that studied the effects of hurricanes and COVID-19 in long-term care, as well as among caregivers of persons living with dementia. She is also involved in research on the effects of a music intervention in assisted living to manage agitation among residents in memory care. Additionally, Dr. Peterson teaches assisted living management at USF.

Senjooti Roy is a postdoctoral research fellow at Bar Ilan University, Israel. She is interested in interdisciplinary explorations of ageing experiences across cultures. Her research interests include ageing in the context of climate change; ageism, empowerment, and intergenerational relations; caregiving from a distance; health and ageing; and the portrayal of older adults in different types of media. She is currently examining the perceived impacts of overtourism on the quality of life of older adults residing in the Indian Himalayan region.  

JoNell Strough, PhD, is a professor of life-span developmental psychology at West Virginia University. Her research focuses on age and gender differences in motivation, emotion regulation, and cognition as they relate to decision-making and psychological well-being across the lifespan. Dr. Strough is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the American Psychological Association (Division 20—Adult Development and Aging).