Research

Human resilience, healthy aging & later-life adaptation

My research asks how people — especially older women — rebuild resilience after major life disruption, and how those insights can shape healthcare, policy, and community practice.

  • Human resilience
  • Healthy aging
  • Women's resilience
  • Grounded theory
  • Qualitative methods
  • Lifestyle medicine
  • Clinical nutrition

Doctoral dissertation

[Dissertation title]

Resilience in
older women

Grounded-theory study

PhD, Integrative and Functional Nutrition (Mind-Body Medicine concentration) — Saybrook University

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Active study

Resilience in women aged 65 and older

Currently recruiting · Results expected summer 2026

An ongoing study extending my dissertation work to examine how women aged 65 and older experience and reconstruct resilience. (Add study aims, methods, participation criteria, and how to take part.)

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Themes

Research areas

Resilience & later life

How adversity, identity, and meaning shape the way older adults adapt and recover.

Women's health & aging

The distinct social and biological contexts of resilience in older women.

Qualitative methodology

Grounded theory and rigorous qualitative inquiry into lived experience.

Nutrition & lifestyle medicine

How nutrition and lifestyle intersect with resilience and healthy aging.