Nancy Berlinger

Nancy Berlinger

Research Scholar

The Hasting Center

Bio

Nancy Berlinger is a research scholar at The Hastings Center, an independent nonprofit bioethics research institute based in Garrison, NY (US). Her interdisciplinary work on ethical and societal challenges arising from population aging focuses on housing and community and also on dementia. She was lead editor of the 2018 special report What Makes a Good Life in Late Life?: Citizenship and Justice in Aging Societies, featuring essays by design, environmental gerontology, and housing policy scholars. In partnership with Jennifer Molinsky of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, she produced the livestreamed 2019 symposium “Aging in [a] Place: Planning, Design & Spatial Justice in Aging Societies.” In 2020, she and Molinsky co-founded the Aging, Housing, and Public Health Research and Policy Network as a standing work group of policymakers, practitioners, and scholars from the US and Canada. She co-directs a Retirement Research Foundation-funded study of housing-focused responses to Covid-19.