CSDE Research Areas:
- Health of People and Populations
- Wellbeing of Families and Households
In the News:
- Research Co-authored by Shapiro, Gray, Taylor, and Freitag Discusses Expanding the Ethnographic Toolkit to Include Kinless Older Adults Living with Dementia (02/08/2024)
- On Recognition, Caring, and Dementia: Taylor's Essay Featured on This American Life (02/01/2024)
- Research Co-authored by Taylor Describes the Experience of Frontline Clinicians During the COVID-19 Pandemic (02/02/2024)
- Taylor’s Research Findings on Dementia Care Appears in The Conversation (03/26/2023)
- Taylor Publishes Qualitative Research About Long COVID Diagnoses and Management Utilizing EHRs (11/10/2022)
- Janelle Taylor Receives Supplement Award to Continue Research on Dementia (10/08/2018)
- Janelle Taylor Receives Funding from National Institute on Aging for Study on Health Outcomes for Dementia Patients (10/17/2017)
- CSDE Welcomes New Affiliates (07/18/2017)
- Janelle Taylor Explains Moral Merit of Friendship with Dementia Patients (07/18/2017)
Janelle Taylor is a medical anthropologist, trained in sociocultural anthropology and ethnographic methods. Over the past ten years, her interest in social and cultural dimensions of health and medicine has come to focus more specifically on aging, dementia, and caregiving. This has led her to engage more closely with demographic approaches to questions such as population aging, migration patterns of the eldercare workforce, and shifting patterns of family and residence as these affect eldercare needs and resources.