Departmental Affiliations
Chanee Fabius, PhD, MA, conducts research to improve aging and disability policy while supporting health equity for older adults, caregivers, and the direct care workforce.
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Research Interests
long-term services and supports; home and community-based services; caregiving; racial and ethnic disparities; Medicare-Medicaid dual enrollment; aging policy
Experiences & Accomplishments
Dr. Chanee Fabius is a gerontologist and health services researcher with an interdisciplinary background consisting of training in gerontology, human development and family studies, and public health. Her research informs aging and disability policies to reduce health care disparities and improve health equity for older adults and people with disabilities using long-term services and supports (LTSS). Her interests are informed by applied, clinical care management experience, where she helped older adults remain at home and delay the need for nursing home care. She is interested in: (1) better understanding networks of care (e.g. LTSS such as home and community-based services and family support) used by older people and how those may vary by race and socioeconomic status, (2) examining the effect of community-based LTSS utilization on quality of life and health service utilization across diverse groups of older adults, and (3) strengthening the direct care workforce that provides services and supports to vulnerable older adults, such as those with complex conditions like dementia. She completed a two-year AHRQ-funded T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research at the Brown School of Public Health in 2018. She earned her PhD in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Connecticut in 2016.
Honors & Awards
- Scholar, Emerging Luminaries in Geroscience for the Public Good Symposium, Indiana University School of Public Health, Washington DC, September 2023.
- Scholar, Interdisciplinary Aging Research to Address Health Disparities in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (NIA R13AG063477), Los Angeles, California, 2019 – 2022.
- Scholar, Research Career Institute in Mental Health of Aging, Harvard University, 2019 – 2020
- Scholar, Butler-Williams Scholars Program. National Institute on Aging. 2018
- AcademyHealth Diversity Scholars Network, 2018
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Recent publications:
Fabius, C. D., Okoye, S. M., Wu, M. M., Jopson, A. D., Chyr, L. C., Burgdorf, J. G., Ballreich, J., Scerpella, D., Wolff, J. L. (2023). The role of place in person‐and family‐oriented long‐term services and supports. The Milbank Quarterly, 101(4), 1076-1138. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.12664
Fabius, C. D., Millar, Erick, Deihl, Stockwell, Johnston, M. D., Gallo, J., Wolff, J. L. (2022). The Role of Dementia and Residential Service Agency Characteristics in the Care Experiences of Maryland Medicaid Home and Community-Based Service Participants and Family and Unpaid Caregivers. Journal of Applied Gerontology. https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648221128286
Parker, L. J., & Fabius, C. (2022). Who’s helping whom? Examination of care arrangements for racially and ethnically diverse people living with dementia in the community. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 41(12), 2589-2593. https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648221120247
Fabius, C. D., Okokye, S., Mulcahy, J., Burgdorf, S., Wolff, J. L. (2022). Associations Between Use of Paid Help and Care Experiences Among Medicare–Medicaid Enrolled Older Adults With and Without Dementia . Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac072
Fabius, C. D., Wolff, J., Kasper, J. (2020). Race Differences in Characteristics and Experiences of Black and White Caregivers of Older Americans. The Gerontologist, 60(7). https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaa042