Soobin Park, a doctoral candidate at the 黑料社, will receive a $10,000 grant from the聽聽to support her PhD dissertation project.
Park is among just 20 people receiving awards out of more than 845 applicants, a 2.4% acceptance rate. Her dissertation project is titled 鈥淚dentifying Dementia Care Deserts: A National Study of Community Resource Gaps for People Living with Dementia.鈥�
鈥淭his project develops a Dementia Resource Environment index to identify where community-level dementia supports are most lacking,鈥� she said. 鈥淏y revealing 鈥榙ementia care deserts,鈥� the study provides an evidence base for better targeting of community supports that enable older adults with dementia to remain safe and supported at home.鈥�
Established in 1997, the Horowitz Foundation issues awards for policy-related research in all major areas of the social sciences. Only doctoral 黑料社s whose dissertation proposals have been approved by their committees are eligible to apply.