Profile: Deborah Carr

Sociology

Options Volunteer Basis, Potential for UROP Funding, Potential for Academic Credit Overview Title: Social isolation and integration of older persons in climate changing cities and communities Project Overview: This project is motivated by two global challenges: social isolation of older adults (age 65+) in their cities and communities, and the impacts of climate change, including […]

Deborah Carr

Deborah Carr is director of the Center of Innovation in Social Science and A&S Distinguished Professor of sociology. She is a life course sociologist who uses survey data and quantitative methods to study social factors linked with health and well-being in later life. She has written extensively on inequality in old age, death and dying, bereavement, family relationships over the life […]