Kate Perepezko
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Education
- PhD, Public Health (Mental Health), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- MSPH, Social and Behavioral Interventions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- BA, Psychology, New York University
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Kate Perepezko is an Assistant Research Scientist with the Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University. Her research focuses on developing, adapting, and implementing interventions to improve the quality of life and functioning of aging adults conditions and their care partners. In particular, she is interested in interventions that incorporate goal-setting and dyadic interventions involving aging adults and their care partners.
Research Interests
Mixed methods, caregiving, dyadic interventions, person-and family-centered care approaches, mental health
Selected Publications
- Perepezko, K., Shaffer, K., Beach, S., Rolle, N., & Fields, B. (2024). Effects of Caregiver Sleep Disturbances on Relationship Quality With Their Care Recipient. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 79(1), gbad137.
- Perepezko, K., Toto, P., Hitchcock, M., & Fields, B. (2024). Goal Setting for Aging Adults and Care Partners: A Scoping Review. Innovation in Aging, 8(1), igad135.
- Fields, B., Golden, B. P., Perepezko, K., Wyman, M., & Griffin, J. M. (2024). Optimizing better health and care for older adults and their family caregivers: A review of geriatric approaches. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
- Bangerter, L. R., Kim, Y., Fields, B., Wittke, M. R., & Perepezko, K. (2024). The Intersection of Successful Aging and Family Caregiving. The Gerontologist, gnae054.
- Perepezko, K. M., Gallo, J. J., Pontone, G. M., Hinkle, J. T., & Mills, K. A. (2023). Association of caregiver strain with the trajectory of quality of life in Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism & related disorders, 108, 105292.
- Perepezko, K., Hinkle, J. T., Forbes, E. J., Pontone, G. M., Mills, K. A., & Gallo, J. J. (2023). The impact of caregiving on quality of life in Parkinson's disease: A systematic review. International journal of geriatric psychiatry, 38(1), e5870.