Notable

Elyse Kantrowitz, a senior in human development in the College of Human Ecology, won the Student Paper Award at the New York State Society on Aging annual meeting in Albany Oct. 28. Her paper, "There's No Place Like Home: Satisfaction with residence, socialization and identity with home in senior residences," used data from the Pathways to Life Quality Study to examine aspects of seniors' living environment in five types of rural and urban senior housing residences in Tompkins County and the relationship of those factors to well-being. The society provides a forum for educators, service providers, researchers, administrators, government agency officials and others to share their work on issues affecting older persons. Pathways to Life Quality is a long-term study, begun in 1995, of residential change and adjustment in the later years. A joint research project of Cornell and Ithaca College, it is co-directed by Phyllis Moen, director of the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center at Cornell, and John Krout, director of Ithaca College's Gerontology Institute.

November 11, 1999