Her lecture is titled “Aging for a Lifetime: Is 80 the New 60 or Are We Healthier Longer?”
Rempusheski's research involves elder care within a family context, including elders with dementia, family care-giving and grandparent-grandchild relationships, three and four-generation families and ethnicity/ethnic identity. For the past 20 years, she has explored the perceptions of grandparents about grandchildren, and her current research involves Latino grandparents in Delaware.
Rempusheski has taught at Clemson University College of Nursing, was an associate at Harvard's Geriatric Education Center at Harvard Medical School and was a lecturer at Boston College. She served as associate dean for research and as director of the Center for Nursing Science and Scholarly Practice at the University of Rochester School of Nursing and was a faculty member at the University of Kansas School of Nursing before joining the UD faculty this fall.
Her career as a research consultant has taken her to China, Finland and 11 other countries, and she has given 65 national and international presentations. Rempusheski has 55 publications, including an influential article with Linda Phillips in Nursing Research on decision-making in determining elder abuse and neglect.
Among her honors, she was named to the Seton Hall University Hall of Honor, received the Phyllis Keeney Lawrence Teaching Award in Nursing from the School of Nursing at the University of Kansas and the Mary Opal Wolanin Award for Excellence in Clinical Nursing Research and the Geraldine Newell Lectureship as a distinguished alumna from the University of Arizona's College of Nursing. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the Gerontological Society of America and the National Academies of Practice and has served as president of the Eastern Nursing Research Society.
Rempusheski received her diploma in nursing from the Clara Maass Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Belleville, N.J., her bachelor's degree from Seton Hall University, her master's degree from the University of Colorado and her doctorate from the University of Arizona. She carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania.
Refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m. and a reception will follow the lecture. The event is free and open to the public but reservations are requested by calling (302) 831-2381 or by e-mail to [bsvogt@udel.edu] by Tuesday, April 10.
Photo by Kathy Atkinson
