Graham
D. Rowles is a social geographer with an interest
in the humanistic tradition who for the past
30 years has focused his research on the geography
of aging and the aged. A
primary emphasis of this work has been exploration
of the changing relationship between elders
and their environment. He
has studied elders in an inner city environment,
in rural Appalachia and in a variety of residential and institutional
settings. He is a Fellow of the Gerontological
Society of America and the Association for
Gerontology in Higher Education, serves on
the Editorial Board of the Journal of Gerontology:
Social Sciences and is President Elect
of the Southern Gerontological Society.
His
publications include Prisoners of Space? Exploring the Geographical Experience
of Older People, and four co-edited
volumes, Aging
and Milieu: Environmental Perspectives on Growing
Old, Qualitative Gerontology, Long-term
Care for the Rural Elderly, and Qualitative
Gerontology (2nd Edition): A Contemporary Perspective, in
addition to more than 60 book chapters and
articles. Dr. Rowles has served on the
West Virginia Commission on Aging Intra State
Funding Formula Committee, on the Kentucky
Division of Aging services Statewide Housing
Initiative Steering Committee,
on the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission
on Aging and the Workforce, and as a consultant
to the United States Veteran’s Administration
on issues of deinstitutionalization.
Ongoing
research includes a study of institutional
permeability in long-term care that involves
longitudinal survey research in 60 nursing
and assisted living facilities and in-depth
ethnographic research in four of these facilities
(funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality). From 1985 until 2004 he served
as Associate Director of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging before
assuming his current position as Director
of the Graduate Center for
Gerontology.
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