Tetyana Shippee, PhD

Many factors determine how we age and our quality of life as we age. And as our population gets older and older, long-term care services and supports will become even more important. As a social gerontologist, my work focuses on what really matters to people as they age, such as quality of life measures (like social interactions with others and meal enjoyment) in long-term care settings and the role of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities for older adults' quality of life.

• Member, Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health
• Collegiate recipient for the School of Public Health, University of Minnesota Presidents' Community Engaged Scholar Award, 2017
• Senior Service America Senior Scholar Award for Research Related to Disadvantaged Older Adults, Gerontological Society of America, 2015
• Elected Fellow, Gerontological Society of America, 2015
• Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health, 2012

• 2016–2021, R01, NIH/NIMHD, "System Factors and Racial Disparities in Nursing Home Quality of Life and Care," Principal Investigator
• 2016–2017, "State of Minnesota Department of Human Services, "Racial Disparities in Nursing Home Resident Quality of Life," Principal Investigator
• 2016–2018, "Racial Disparities in Quality of Life for Home and Community-Based Older Adults using 2016 NCI-AD Data," Principal Investigator
• 2016–2019, R01, AHRQ, "Patient Safety in Nursing Homes: A Closer Look at Improvement," Co-Investigator, U of MN Sub-Award PI

See a full list of my publications on PubMed

Select Recent Publications

• Gaugler JE, Jutkowitz E, Shippee TP, Brasure M. "Consistency of Dementia Caregiver Intervention Classification: An Evidence-Based Synthesis," International Psychogeriatrics, Jan 2017
• Xu D, Kane RL, Shippee T, Lewis TM. "Identifying Consistent and Coherent Dimensions of Nursing Home Quality: Exploratory Factor Analysis of Quality Indicators," Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Dec 2016
• Jarosek SL, Shippee TP, Virnig BA. "Place of Death of Individuals with Terminal Cancer: New Insights from Medicare Hospice Place-of-Service Codes," Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Aug 2016
• Jutkowitz E, Brasure M, Fuchs E, Shippee T, Kane RA, Fink HA, Butler M, Sylvanus T, Kane RL. "Care-Delivery Interventions to Manage Agitation and Aggression in Dementia Nursing Home and Assisted Living Residents: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis," Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, March 2016
• Shippee TP, Henning-Smith C, Gaugler JE, Held R, Kane RL. "Family Satisfaction With Nursing Home Care: The Role of Facility Characteristics and Resident Quality-of-Life Scores," Research on Aging, Nov 2015

Book Chapters

• Shippee,T.P., Henning-Smith, C. 2015. Continuing care retirement communities: Opportunities and challenges. In S.K. Whitbourne (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Adulthood and Aging. Hoboken, NJ: JohnWiley& Sons.
• Shippee,T.P., Rowan,K., Henning-Smith, C. 2015. Supporting caregivers of older adults in making decisions: Current tools and future directions. In J. Gaugler & R.L. Kane(Eds.), Family Caregiving in the New Normal. Elsevier Publishing.
• Ferraro, K.F., Shippee,T.P., Schafer, M.H. 2009. “Cumulative Inequality Theory for Research on Aging and the Life Course.” Pp. 413-35 in Handbook of Theories of Aging. 2nd Ed., edited by Bengtson, V.L., Gans, D., Putney, N.M., and Silverstein, M. New York: Springer.