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Dr. Allen studies home care issues among people with chronic conditions and disabilities. Her research focuses on formal and family home care, and on the implications of unmet need for help at home for quality of life and service use among people with disability who live in the community. She is also interested in psychosocial outcomes of female cancer survivors, as well as the outcomes of female veterans deployed to serve in the war in Iraq.
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Dr. Allen is Professor of Medical Science in the Department of Community Health. She is also Deputy Director of the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research at Brown, and Associate Director of the VA Center on Systems, Outcomes and Quality in Chronic Disease and Rehabilitation (VA HSR&D REAP). Dr Allen has a long history of studying home care issues among people with disabilities. Her research focuses on both formal and family care, as well as technological assistance as a third home care resource. She is currently funded as an Investigator (Kasper and Freedman, Co-PIs)to develop measures of unmet need and other consequences of disability in the elderly population for the National Survey on Aging and Health, funded by the National Institute on Aging. She is also an Investigator (Verhouk-Oftedahl, PI) on an NIA study to improve estimates of elder abuse in the US population. Dr. Allen's second research interest is in the arena of women's health and well-being. Her work in the Veterans Administration focuses on the reintegration of female veterans following deployment to Iraq, with an emphasis on the impact of deployment stressors on the resumption of social roles. Finally, Dr. Allen studies quality of life issues among female cancer survivors with funding from the National Cancer Institute.
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