Lenard W. Kaye is Professor of Social Work at the University of Maine School of Social Work and Director of the UMaine Center on Aging in the College of Business, Public Policy & Health. During the 2000-2001 academic year, he was the Visiting Libra Professor in UMaine's College of Business, Public Policy & Health. Previously, he was Professor of Social Work and Social Research and Director of the Ph.D. Program at the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and Associate Director of the Brookdale Institute on Aging & Adult Human Development at Columbia University.

Education

Ph.D.

Research interests

Kaye has been the principal investigator and director of research/evaluation for numerous assessments of innovative community services for older adults including projects funded by the AARP Andrus Foundation, Pew Foundation, Families USA Foundation, U.S. Administration on Aging, John Hartford Foundation, Philadelphia Corporation on Aging, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office on Aging. He currently serves as a research consultant for a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative and one funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research. He is the co-principal investigator of the new Maine Primary Partners in Caregiving Project funded through the U.S. Administration on Aging.

Kaye sits on the national advisory boards of the Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work, Senior Health Institute of Jefferson Health System, and the Hartford Geriatric Enrichment in Social Work Education Program as well as the advisory boards of Maine's Eastern Area Agency on Aging and the Cooperative Extension's Senior Companion Program.

He is the Chair of the National Association of Social Worker's Section on Aging, sits on the editorial boards of Social Work Today, the Journal of Gerontological Social Work, and Geriatric Care Management Journal, and is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.

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