Ann Dill
401 Maxcy Hall
401-863-1114 phone
401-863-3213 fax
Ann_Dill@brown.edu
Spring 2008 Office Hours:
Wednesday after 4:00pm by appt., & Thursday 4:15-5:30pm
Ph.D. Columbia University
Brown University Research Profile Page
Areas of Interest:
Medical Sociology, Aging, Complex Organizations
The courses I teach examine the experience of aging, the lives of older people, public policy affecting the elderly, and social aspects of medicine, health, and healing. I study how societies provide care for people with long-term, multiple needs, ranging from the elderly to those with chronic mental illness to recipients of welfare. In addition to research in this country, I have been tracing changes in the situation of older people in former Yugoslavia. My recent publications include an assessment of community-based care for people with AIDS and an analysis of how older peoples' ways of taking care of themselves relate to their social worlds and self identities.