PhD student Yuting Song recently received the Bass Connections Follow-on Student Research Funding for $3,000 to strengthen her dissertation study support.

Song will extend the target population of her Bass Connections project team, Community Care of Frail Elders in Cross-cultural Settings, to include frail elders in long-term care facilities in China. Bei Wu is the principal investigator for this project and Kirsten Corazzini and Ellie McConnell are mentors.

Song's research aims to describe the care needs of Chinese older adults who live in long-term care facilities and experience cognitive and/or physical decline and to explore the feasibility of using the Chinese version of the social convoy questionnaire to measure residents' social networks within these facilities.