Box 1916

Maxcy Hall

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Telephone: (401) 863-2367

Sociology@brown.edu

 

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401-863-3213 fax
Ann_Dill@brown.edu

Fall 2008 Office Hours:
On Sabbatical

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.