Shedding light on loneliness
Professor Karen Rook studies relationships and how they affect one’s health and happiness. Her research has shed light on the psychological toll of loneliness on the elderly.
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School of Social Ecology receives $1 million from estate of founding faculty member
Gift endows Carol Kupers Whalen Fund, which supports students and faculty research
All the lonely people
UC Irvine psychologist Karen Rook can trace her interest in how loneliness affects the elderly to her childhood, when she saw a much-loved, once-robust grandmother decline markedly after losing her husband. Unable to manage the family farm on her own, her grandmother moved into an apartment. After breaking her hip in a fall, she ended […]
UC Irvine Medical Center honors nine for nursing excellence
Awards ceremony among series of events marking National Nurses Week.
Improving care for low-birth-weight infants
‘Project HealthDesign’ grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation integrates daily information about babies’ health into clinical care.