Areas of Expertise: Family Caregiving, Caregiver Stress, Decision-making Involvement of Individuals with Dementia

For over 25 years, Dr. Whitlatch has studied a variety of topics related to family caregiving including: developing and evaluating intervention strategies; choice and decision making in caregiver-care receiver dyads; and autonomy and functioning in African American caregiving families. She is an Adjunct Professor at Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Sociology and Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, where she teaches graduate courses on family caregiving and advises graduate students. Dr. Whitlatch is Associate Editor of Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice.