Susan Crocker Houde

Dr. Susan Crocker Houde is a Professor in the Nursing Program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, serves as Associate Dean of the'School of Health and Environment and was the Associate Director of the Division of Aging of The Center for Health and Disease Research. She teaches courses in gerontology, research, and primary care of the adult. She has a Masters degree in gerontological nursing and a doctoral degree in social policy with a focus on health policy and aging from Brandeis...See more

Dr. Susan Crocker Houde is a Professor in the Nursing Program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, serves as Associate Dean of the'School of Health and Environment and was the Associate Director of the Division of Aging of The Center for Health and Disease Research. She teaches courses in gerontology, research, and primary care of the adult. She has a Masters degree in gerontological nursing and a doctoral degree in social policy with a focus on health policy and aging from Brandeis University. Dr. Houde is certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as an Adult Nurse Practitioner. She is a member of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties where she has served on the Education Committee and contributed to task forces in the development of national standards for gerontological, family, and adult nurse practitioner programs, preceptor guidelines, and curriculum guidelines. She is a member of the Gerontological Society of America and Sigma Theta Tau International. She has presented numerous posters and papers in gerontology to national organizations. Research interests include family caregiving of older adults with dementia, prevention of age-related vision loss in the older adult, and physical activity in older adults, and she has had papers published on these topics in the Journal of Gerontological Nursing, the Journal of Advanced Nursing, Research in Nursing and Health, Clinical Excellence for Nurse Practitioners and The Nurse Practitioner. She was a co-Principal Investigator on a funded research study that explored the relationship between nutritional intake and blood levels of antioxidants important in preventing and delaying the progression of age-related macular degeneration in older adults. Dr. Houde edited Vision Loss in Older Adults (2007) with Springer Publishing.Dr. Houde is a Gerontological Research Scholar with the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing and has served as an Alumnae Colleague for the Institute. She serves as a public policy editor for the Journal of Gerontological Nursing and is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Quality of Life Research, Geriatric Nursing and Journal of Advanced Nursing. See less