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Sharon Keigher, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Social Work

1045 Enderis Hall
(414) 229-4414
keigher@uwm.edu

(Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1985) joined the faculty in 1992 after teaching at the University of Michigan. She is a Full Professor in the Policy, Planning and Administration methods area, and also teaches health policy, social welfare, and aging. She has prior direct practice experience and has worked as a planner, administrator, and state budget analyst. Her research is in the areas of aging and health policy with special focus on in-home services, housing, and community practice and women's issues. She has completed two books, Housing Risks and Homelessness Among the Urban Aged, and Wages for Caring: Compensating Family Care of the Elderly. Her most recent paper, Handle With Care is a study of the "grey market" in long-term, consumer-directed care. (Download the study as an Adobe Acrobat .PDF file; the file is approximately 1 megabyte.)

Course Outlines

896-604-001: Social Systems And Social Work
896-604-002: Social Systems And Social Work
896-851-002: Seminar in Social Issue Analysis: Health in Urban America

 

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