Stephanie Robert

Credentials: Professor, Social Work

Email: sarobert@wisc.edu

Address:
312 School of Social Work Bldg
1350 University Ave
Madison, WI 53706

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Professor Robert’s research focuses on how social and economic aspects of people’s lives affect their health and well-being over the life course. Many of her publications focus on how neighborhood context affects health and contributes to socioeconomic and racial health disparities. Her focus is on seeing social policy as health policy – determining how to best improve social policy rather than only health care policy to maintain people’s health and reduce health disparities. Professor Robert is particularly interested in the health and well-being of vulnerable older adults. One of her current projects is examining socioeconomic and racial determinants of older adults’ transitions from community residence into a range of other living environments (e.g., nursing homes and assisted living). She aims to inform policies that help older adults have choice in the type of living situation they have when their health or cognitive function is challenged, and to make sure that low income older adults and older adults of color have fewer barriers to high quality options.

CDE Research Area Affiliations:

Demography of Inequality; Health and the Life Course

Selected Publications:

Hansmann, Kellia J., Ronald Gangnon, Carolyn McAndrews, and Stephanie Robert. “Social and Environmental Characteristics Associated With Older Drivers’ Use of Non-driving Transportation Modes. Journal of Aging and Health (2024): 08982643241258901.

Hansmann, Kellia J., Ronald Gangnon, Carolyn McAndrews, and Stephanie A. Robert. “Getting Rides From Others As a Coping Mechanism in the Transition to Non-Driving.” The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 79, no. 6 (2024): gbae054.

Hansmann, Kellia J., David A. Deemer, and Stephanie Robert. “Measuring age-friendliness of transportation and mobility characteristics in communities: A scoping review.” The Gerontologist 64, no. 5 (2024): gnad106.

Jenkins Morales, Meghan, and Stephanie A. Robert. “Does Subsidized Housing Prevent Health Decline and 2-Year Mortality Among Low-Income Older Renters?.” The Gerontologist 64, no. 5 (2024): gnad121.