Karen Roberto and Tina Savla, both core faculty members of Virginia Tech’s Center for Gerontology, are leading a five-year, $2.14 million study that will examine the role of extended family caregivers and their service use, needs, and challenges.
Although Roberto and Savla will be recruiting participants from across Virginia, they will begin their efforts at Carilion Clinic, where they are partnering with co-investigator Aubrey Knight, a geriatrician who serves as senior dean for student affairs and a professor of family and community medicine in the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.