Kate de Medeiros

Kate de Medeiros is the O'Toole Family Professor in the department of sociology and gerontology and a Scripps Research Fellow at Miami University. Dr. de Medeiros's research is broadly focused on understanding the experience of later life using narratives and other qualitative and mix-methods approaches. Research topics include what makes a good life in later life, the meaning of home, suffering in old age, generativity, gendered aspects of aging, and friendships and social connectivity. She...See more

Kate de Medeiros is the O'Toole Family Professor in the department of sociology and gerontology and a Scripps Research Fellow at Miami University. Dr. de Medeiros's research is broadly focused on understanding the experience of later life using narratives and other qualitative and mix-methods approaches. Research topics include what makes a good life in later life, the meaning of home, suffering in old age, generativity, gendered aspects of aging, and friendships and social connectivity. She has authored or co-authored more than 40 research articles and book chapters and is the author of two books on aging. She is the Associate Editor for Humanities and Arts for The Gerontologist and is a member of three journal editorial boards (The Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, The Journal of Aging Studies, and Gerontology and Geriatrics Education). She is a three-time past chair of the Humanities and Arts committee of the Gerontological Society of America, is an inaugural member of the North American Network in Aging Studies. Her research has been funded by the National See less