Biography
Dr. Holly Dabelko-Schoeny, MSW, PhD, FGSA is a Professor at the College of Social Work at The Ohio State University. Dr. Dabelko-Schoeny is a community-engaged social work scholar and educator committed to improving the lives of older adults and family caregivers through community-based interventions identified and developed with older persons, practitioners, students, and other faculty. She is the Director of Research for the Age-Friendly Innovation Center and strives to improve the service, social and built environments that support the inclusion of older adults. Her work is deeply collaborative, relying on multiple methods and community-based participatory research approaches. She is a team scientist and teacher who believes answers to our most challenging questions exist in the intersection between our empirical and theoretical understandings and the lived experiences of older adults, practitioners, and students. Dr. Dabelko-Schoeny’s work is influenced by her social work practice experience in the aging network, and the relationships she had with her grandparents. She comes from a family of social scientists who care about the well-being of all people and our planet!
IOA Areas of Expertise
- Caregiver, Social Sciences, and Support
- Community Outreach and Engagement
- Education and Learner Integration
- Age-friendly communities
- Social determinants of health
Education
She earned her PhD in Social Work at Ohio State in 2002, an MSW at the University of Maryland in 1996, and a BA in Sociology at Wittenberg University in 1993.