Brooke Hollister, PhD
Associate Professor
Institute for Health & Aging
School of Nursing

Her teaching and research focus on aging health and social policy issues including: long term care, Social Security, Medicare, the Long Term Care Ombudsman Program, Alzheimer’s disease supports and services, disability, mental health, care transitions, and the use of mHealth and broadband-technology to promote the heath and wellness of older adults. She has over 20 years of experience conducting research on aging health and social policy issues, using qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods in community-based participatory research and program evaluation. Dr. Hollister is a co-editor of Health Policy: Crisis and Reform in the US Health Care Delivery System (6th Ed., 2012), and Social Insurance and Social Justice: Social Security, Medicare and the campaign against entitlements (2009). Dr Hollister's research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, Administration for Community Living, and California Department of Public Health. She has served as principal investigator (PI) on 14 projects totaling more than $4 million (~35 million NOK).

Dr. Hollister was a 2012-13 Atlantic Philanthropies Health and Aging Policy Fellow and an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow with a placement in Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi’s office in Washington, DC where she worked on a variety of health policy issues including the implementation of the ACA and the design of the financial alignment initiative for dual eligible in California.

• Beneficiaries Respond To California's Program To Integrate Medicare, Medicaid, And Long-Term Services.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2018 Graham CL, Liu PJ, Hollister BA, Kaye HS, Harrington C
• Dementia-Capable Care Coordination in Duals Demonstration Programs: Workforce Needs, Promising Practices, and Policy.
  The Gerontologist 2018 Hollister B, Flatt JD, Chapman SA
• Local Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program effectiveness and the measurement of program resources.
  Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society 2012 Hollister BA, Estes CL
• Health Policy: Crisis and reform in the United States health care system
  Health Policy: Crisis and reform in the United States health care system. 2012 Estes, C.L., Chapman, S., Dodd, C., Hollister, B.A., Harrington, C.
• Medical ideology as a double-edged sword: the politics of cure and care in the making of Alzheimer's disease.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2011 Chaufan C, Hollister B, Nazareno J, Fox P
• Factors associated with perceived effectiveness of local long-term care ombudsman programs in New York and California.
  Journal of aging and health 2010 Estes CL, Lohrer SP, Goldberg S, Grossman BR, Nelson M, Koren MJ, Hollister B
• Social insurance and social justice: Social Security, Medicare and the campaign against entitlements
  2009 Rogne, L., Estes, C. L., Grossman, B. R., Hollister, B. A., & Solway, E. S.
• Considerations in discharge planning of ED patients if social security benefits are compromised.
  Journal of emergency nursing 2006 Hollister B, Digiorgio K