Nancy Morrow-Howell
CSD Faculty Director; Washington University in St. Louis
Productive Aging: Active Engagement in Older Adulthood
Grand Challenges for Social Work
- Email: morrow-howell@wustl.edu
Nancy Morrow-Howell is a CSD faculty director in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis and network co-lead of the Advance Long and Productive Lives grand challenge for social work. Her CSD research focuses on productive engagement of older adults in the United States and Asia.
CSD Projects
Experience Corps School-based Tutoring Project
Productive Aging
Experience Corps is an inter-generational tutoring program that places older adults in public schools to help students who experience trouble with reading.
Productive Aging in China
Productive Aging
China’s growing older population includes many who are healthy and who want to be engaged. Their contributions are crucial for China’s social and economic development.
Measuring the Institutional Determinants of Volunteering by Older Adults
Productive Aging
We explore the language, measurement tools and impetus for a broader and more balanced discussion of elder volunteerism and service.
Productive Engagement of Older Adults: Effects on Well-being
Productive Aging
We analyze the level of engagement of older adults in productive activities and their impact on the adults’ physical and mental health.
Older Adults in Service to Society
Productive Aging
We develop a measurement tool to assess institutional capacity to engage older volunteers and collect data on volunteer programs and older adult volunteers.
Service with Older Adults
Productive Aging
Our research investigates the impacts of service on the health and well-being of older adult volunteers and their potential to address critical social development needs.