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Carol Farran, DNSc, RN
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Carol Farran,
DNSC, RN, is a professor and endowed Chair in Health and the Aging
Process at the Rush University College of Nursing and the Rush Alzheimer's
Disease Center. She has had nearly fifteen years of experience working
with family caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease. She received
a master's degree in community health nursing from Northern Illinois
University in DeKalb, Illinois in 1979 and a doctorate in nursing
science from Rush University in1985. Farran did postgraduate research
at Northwestern University in Chicago. She has been interested in
not only the stressful, but also the positive aspects of caregiving.
She has examined these positive aspects in both African-American and
white caregivers. |
| Her research has been funded by the Alzheimer's Association,
the National Institute of Aging, the National of Mental Health and
the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR). She and colleagues
are currently conducting an NINR-funded intervention targeted to help
family caregivers respond to some of the difficult behaviors associated
with Alzheimer's disease. She has numerous publications on caregiving.
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