Adult Development and Aging Growth, Longevity, and Challenges First Edition by Julie Hicks Patrick

Julie Hicks Patrick, PhD is teacher of lifespan developmental psychology and the PI of the AGE-ADAR Scholars Program at West Virginia University. Her efforts concentrate on vigorous aging at mid- and late-life.

Dr. Bert Hayslip, Jr. is Regents Professor of Psychology Emeritus at University of North Texas. With an expansive research concentration, Dr. Hayslip is recognized as an expert in grandparenting, death and dying, grief and bereavement, psychopathology, intellectual functioning, and counseling with older adults. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, and a Fellow of AGHE.

Dr. Lisa Hollis-Sawyeris Associate Professor in the Psychology department and Coordinator of the Gerontology program at Northeastern Illinois University. She earned her doctorate in Industrial Gerontology from The University of Akron and conducted her postdoctoral aging-related training at Boston University. Her research interests vary from eldercare to aging workforce issues, particularly concentrating on aging women’s issues within these roles. Dr. Hollis-Sawyer has composed/co-composed eight textbooks and composed/co-composed 59 scholarly publications. She received an American Psychological Association Division 20 award for her career-long mentoring of gerontology students in 2014. She also has acted as the co-Chair of the APA Division 35 Committee on Women and Aging for the past three years. In 2017, she received the APA Division 35’s Florence L. Denmark award for her research on women and aging since 1988. She has co-written both a book on women’s positive aging for Elsevier Book Publishers in 2015 entitled “Women and Positive Aging: An International Perspective,” and recently published an edited 2020 book (co-edited with Dr. Ellen Cole) entitled “Older Women Who Work: Resilience, Choice, and Change.”