Social Aspects of Aging in Indigenous Communities
Edited by Jordan P. Lewis and Tuula Heinonen
Author Information
Jordan P. Lewis, Aleut, Native Village of Naknek, is the Associate Director of the Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team and Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus. He received his MSW from Washington University in St. Louis and his PhD in Cross Cultural Community Psychology from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. His expertise is in Indigenous successful aging, generativity and healthy aging, and cultural constructions of Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias. He developed the concept of Indigenous cultural generativity, and the role of cultural practices and generativity in dementia caregiver health and wellbeing.
Tuula Heinonen, Professor Emerita at the Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba, holds an MSW from McGill University, a DPhil from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, and an Advanced Diploma in Art Therapy from Vancouver Art Therapy Institute. Her scholarly interests include arts-based methods in teaching, research and writing, international social work, aging of women across different cultural contexts and social work in the health field. She has authored or co-authored numerous journal articles and books and continues to teach, supervise graduate students and write since her retirement from the University of Manitoba, Canada, in 2018.
Contributors:
Oluwafunmilayo T. Adekola
Malathi Adudsumalli
Jason Albert
Fatai A. Badru
Shahnaj Begum
Gina Belton
Jad Bhotiyas
Stella Black
Maria Crouch
Lorena P. Gallardo-Peralta
Merryn Gott
Subramaniam Jeevasuthan
Jamie Jensen
Varatharajah Jeyaruban
Kui Kasirisir
Gilbert Kewistep
Tulshi Kumar Das
Julian Kunnie
Jordan Lewis
Hai Luo
Juster Lyngdoh
Tess Moeke-Maxwell
Fred Moonga
Tessa Morgan
Kwadwo Ofori-Dua
Jennifer Philip
Vicente Rodriguez-Rodriguez
Rosellen Rosich
Hung-Yu Ru
Esteban Sànchez-Moreno
Shamila Sivukumaran
Asha Banu Soletti
Susannah Walker
Janine Wiles
Michael Yellow Bird