BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — Bowling Green State University has been selected by the National Institute on Aging to receive a six-year grant to establish the Center for Aging Families, a new research hub focused on how aging in the U.S. is shaped by family structures.

Funded by an NIA/NIH P30 grant, the center will unite scholars from BGSU, Purdue University and Ohio State University. BGSU sociology professor Susan Brown, Ph.D., will serve as co-director alongside principal investigators Hui Liu at Purdue and Sarah Hayford and Rin Reczek at Ohio State.

The university said the center is designed to advance research that explores how families influence the aging experience.

“Our broader theme is that if we want to truly understand how people are experiencing aging – and just as importantly, how

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