CARING Lab
The IHSS+ ADRD Training Project aims to implement and evaluate the impact of a comprehensive dementia training program for IHSS caregivers and IHSS consumers.

CARING Lab at UCSF

Community Action Research in Gerontology 

 

Investigating social justice issues affecting older adults, people living with dementia, and caregivers.  

 

OUR VISION

Creating inclusive, supportive, and equitable environments where older adults from marginalized communities can thrive with dignity and joy.

 

OUR MISSION 

Advancing health equity in aging through community-engaged and interdisciplinary research, education, and public service. 

 

OUR VALUES

Partnerships

Collaborating with community partners to advance health equity in aging through trust and shared committments.

Responsive Learning

Fostering co-learning and capacity-building through continuous improvements in all research phases. 

Elevate Voices

Amplifying the voices and lived experiences of older adults from marginalized communities and advocating for change with cultural humility. 

Micro to Macro Analyses

Addressing local health situations while tackling broader structural inequities in aging. 

Critical Gerontology

Examining aging beyond biomedical models to reveal its social, political, and spatial dimensions. 

Emancipatory Sciences

Interrogating power structures, building anti-oppression knowledge, and encouraging activist-scholar approaches to research, policy, and practice.