Mario D. Garrett Ph.D.

Professor of Gerontology

Theorist 

"polemic and critical"

Keuck, L. K. (2020). A Window to Act? Revisiting the conceptual foundations of Alzheimer’s disease in dementia prevention. In Preventing old age and decline? Critical observations on aging and dementia (pp. 19-39). Berghahn Books.

2021, 2022 ,& 2023 According to https://www.authority.org/rankings/best-colleges-for-gerontology/professors  (cache1 cahce2)

"Mario Garrett...is the most popular Gerontology professor in America."

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Creator of   "Psychopathology of Dementia" and "Critical Age Theory"

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3129-5238

Professor of Gerontology, voted by AUTHORITY.ORG  in 2022 and 2023 as the “most popular professor in gerontology in the United States” Mario Garrett elevated the program at SDSU to national status. 

Garrett was the deputy director of the United Nations International Institute on Aging, and for seven years was the team leader of a UNFPA-funded program in the People's Republic of China.  He later worked extensively with American Indian and Alaska Native populations developing the largest health databases using Geographic Information System-GIS. In addition,  Garrett has extensive international experience he has taught in Japan, Canada, Costa Rica, Turkey, Australia, Malta, and Morocco. His enthusiasm ignites interest among many students who are exposed for the first time to aging issues. Nationally he has taught at the University of New Mexico, the University of North Texas, and San Diego State University. For 10 years, he has hosted/funded the Coming of Age film festival on aging at the Museum of Photograph Arts in San Diego. He also helped initiate the film festival on aging in Montclair, NJ. He has written nine books, two of which are textbooks for his courses, that he provides free for students. He has written editorials for the San Diego Union-Tribune, Times of Malta, and now writes a monthly editorial in Kenkou to Yoi Tomodachi-Tokyo (translated into Japanese). He was the main blogger on aging at Psychologytoday.com with more than 160 blogs. Garrett's work has been translated into 10 languages.  His biggest honor is when students follow a career in aging that bring about substantive changes.

EDUCATION 

1988 Ph.D. Psychology Department University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK Thesis: Loneliness: The Experience, Interpretation and Communication. 

1980 B.Sc. (Honors) 1 st class/summa cum laude Science Department University of East London, Stratford, Water Lane. London. E15 4LZ Major: Psychology, Physiology

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What students are saying about my classes

Professor,

I just wanted to thank you for such a good course and semester, I found your lectures interesting, full of thought provoking information and really funny. I got your book critical age theory for myself to read and also my gramma to read, she loves reading and it’s going to be cool to be able to say I was in his class! So again thanks so much, this has been my favorite lecture at SDSU thus far, wanted to let you know.

Best wishes & Happy Holidays,

PK


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Hi Mr. Garrett!

I just wanted to thank you for being such a wonder[full] professor, and making the class so fun. At first, I was a bit apprehensive about the class since I was worried that the topic of aging could get a bit morbid or depressing. But, your energy and enthusiasm made the class genuinely fun, and I feel like I was able to learn a lot. 


Thank you for being the best part of my week.


Sincerely, 

AS


This has been my favorite class. The lectures are posted online so you don’t have to attend class BUT you’d be missing out because the classes are super fun and engaging. Dr. Garrett put a lot of thought into the material he teaches and I found it all of it to be meaningful and thought provoking. I learned so much in this class even though the workload was really light. It’s a great class to take when you have a heavy course load and need a fun, interesting class that’s not going to stress you out. Dr. Garrett is brilliant, full of knowledge and valuable experience and he is accessible, caring and genuinely wants his students to succeed. He made himself available to help me with my outside research, teach me statistics, share ideas and give invaluable guidance and support. Definitely take his class and get to know him!

MJ


Tue, Nov 7, 2023 

Hello Dr. Garrett,

My name is ____ I took your Gerontology 101: Intro to Human Aging course in the Fall semester of 2022. I received a copy of Critical Age Theory in October for Student of the Week, which I tremendously appreciated. I was a huge fan of the book and I gifted it forward to my Dad, who has worked in the healthcare industry ____ I'm writing to you because you truly changed the course of my life. Your class made me first confront my own biases and fears about aging, but after breaking through those, I found myself really considering all the psychological principles you introduced. I enjoyed that aspect so much that it was a huge factor in switching my major to Psychology. My career aspirations since then are to become a therapist for older adults, since it is a massively underserved yet growing population. I've found that typically past the 40s and 50s, people tend to think that we never change again as we grow older, yet my most fruitful and life-changing conversations have been with older adults. I hope to combat this idea of stagnation in my future practice. _____ Thank you for taking the time to read this and for opening my eyes to a new passion. Have a great rest of your week!

NZ

Hi Professor Garrett, I hope you are having a wonderful afternoon!

I wanted to start this message by saying thank you being my professor for such an interesting course! At first I was dreading a 2+ hour class on my schedule as an incoming freshman, but your classes have been very entertaining and your reviews on rate my professor are extremely accurate when people say you’re such a bold, exciting professor with such a passion for this subject and it’s been refreshing to see...

AB


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Good morning! I just wanted to say thank you for such an amazing semester. This was by far my favorite and most interesting course. Your lectures have greatly made me consider declaring a minor in Gerontology. As a psych major I found a lot of links between what we talked about in this class and my other psych classes.

This class has truly changed my life. The way I now view death and aging has completely changed for the better. I feel as though I understand the power of the mind and the beauty of aging. I recognize problems within society that I had not thought about in the past. My grandparents are quite old now and have one foot in the grave but witnessing their attitude towards death and their lives have inspired me to care about the aging population. My grandmother took a heavy fall a few years back so when you mentioned that 50% of people who fall die within a year it actually made me happy for her that she's beating the odds. I told her that as well which did put a smile on her face.

This class was just so interesting in every way, and I would love to hear more ways to explore the subject on my own. Thank you for being an amazing professor and educating all of us. I have two of your books and I greatly look forward to reading your most recent paper about Japan's policy on Dementia.

I will be taking more classes from you in the future! Happy holidays!

EE

NEW  BOOKS COMING OUT IN  2024 -2025

BOOKS PUBLISHED AS PRIMARY AUTHOR

2022   CRITICAL AGE THEORY

Critical Age Theory: Profiteering from the last stages of life

VIDEO OF TALK

Individuals working in the health care industry are mostly motivated by altruism. In contrast, the sole motivation for the private medical industry is to generate profit, in fact, it is their social responsibility. Immortalized in the 1970 essay for The New York Times entitled "A Friedman Doctrine: The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits." This examination looks at twelve different aspects of health care for older people, from medications to home help, guardianship, assisted living, nursing homes, hospitals, sub-acute units, hospice, funeral services, pensions/insurance, and legacy. We will examine how the business model permeates all these facets of health care and illustrate some of the negative consequences of putting profit first.  While the motivation to care and the motivation for profit exist side by side, there are common occasions when there is conflict, resulting in institutional abuse.

By sounding the alarm that “business as usual” is creating an abusive culture we can see how such an outcome is both engineered and at the same time, predictable. As such,  we have the means to stop it especially since the private health care industry cannot function without government funds and subsidies. In the medical business, the complexity of laws and regulations are most often drafted by the same individuals running the health care businesses. In contrast to this efficiency, the public institutions set up to oversee this health care industry are themselves, at best, ineffective, uncoordinated, and most have conflict-of-interest. At worst they are incompetent, corrupt and a sham. While politicians play the short-term game, businesses have a long-term strategy and the potential for profits is phenomenal.  In 2019 U.S. health care spending reached $3.8 trillion, or $11,582 per person, representing 18 percent of the overall share of gross domestic product (GDP), the highest percentage and amount in the world. We need to examine institutional abuse as a sociological phenomenon rather than as a collection of individuals. We are biased to see things as personal, but business does not see us as individuals it sees us as a system of consumers for generating a profit and we must likewise see health care in the same perspective in order for us to understand it.

As in the Christmas Carol narrative, this examination will similarly invite a visit by three ghosts, the ghost from the past, the ghost from the present, and the ghost from the future. It is up to the regulatory institutions we have in place that govern us and oversee our wellbeing to accept the future that they are leading us into and to correct it. We need radical change to stop the growing abuse of frail older adults that we are promoting by keeping the status quo. We can change the ghost of the future.

Social Dementia: The role of memory

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For the first time since the 1900s, and the separation of psychiatry (biology), psychoanalysis (unconscious), and psychology (learning) are brought together to elucidate the causes of dementia. Causes that have evaded understanding from the beginning of civilization. Even though so far, the main thrust has been for a biological cause, more than a third of older people with dementia do not have enough of the biological markers to explain their dementia. As a result, we need to look for alternative and broader explanations.  As we get older our representation of the world becomes more accurate and more dominant. We tend to rely on our past experiences rather than on learning new material. Since memory’s role is "recalling past events in order to facilitate learning," relying on past experiences diminishes learning and eventually weakens memory. Once learning becomes less dominant, memory starts to suffer. The secondary role of memory, to bring past experiences into consciousness then starts to suffer. Memory loss in dementia disconnects the conscious from the unconscious. Dementia becomes an issue of consciousness rather than a problem of thinking. This perspective provides a different interpretation of our thinking processes and establishes a more humane view of the deficits that we witness in dementia. We learn to see the person living with dementia not as a product of loss but as a product of miscommunication. By changing the perspective--that it is not dementia that causes memory loss, but memory loss that causes dementia--a new interpretation emerges that sees the contribution of perceptual biases in dementia. It is impossible to understand aging before addressing dementia. Trying to answer the question of whether aging is pathological—a disease—or whether dementia is the disease of aging is at the crux of gerontology. This book argues that perceptual change results in pathology. That reliance on our past experiences relegates memory as peripheral and eventually weakens memory to the extent that we lose contact with our accumulated subconscious experiences. This is the social pathological of dementia. 

Books edited by Mario D. Garrett

Award-winning blog with over 200 articles on aging

Monthly Editorial in Kenkou to Yoi Tomodachi (Tokyo, Japan)

Kerime_CARTOON.pdf

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Kerime Sak, a student from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey did a cartoon series of my lectures...she attended the course twice so that she can do this. This document is provided here for discussion. All copyright resides with the artist Karime Sak © 2020  (click image for PDF) 

Podcast with Michael Patterson and MINDRAMP 

4/14/2022

This second podcast interview with Mario Garrett [See ] focuses on Garrett's ideas about the social and psychological causes of dementia. In essence, he believe that our mindsets about dementia, our"isomorphic representations, can cause attitudes and behaviors that contribute to cognitive decline. Support our work. Subscribe to the MINDRAMP Podcast.

Duration:00:17:02

4/13/2022

This episode continues our conversation with gerontologist and psychologist Mario Garrett. In this part of the discussion Mario describes his priority to put care over cure. He argues that American society puts far too much emphasis on searching for a cure to Alzheimer's and much too like time, energy and money into actually addressing the needs of people who suffer from dementia and their caregivers. Support our work. Subscribe to the MINDRAMP Podcast.

Duration:00:09:57

4/12/2022

Gerontology professor Mario Garret offers a straight-forward, no-nonsense critique of current approaches to Alzheimer's research, particularly the overwhelming focus on addressing the Amyloid Cascade Hypothesis. Garrett proposes that we broaden our understanding of the true nature of the dementia syndrome and consider psychological as well as biological causes. Chapters Include: Support our work. Subscribe to the MINDRAMP Podcast.

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UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

San Diego State University

University of British Columbia , Canada

Bogazichi University- Turkey

      University of New Mexico

HONORS

Outstanding Faculty, School of Social Work, College of Health and Human Services, San Diego State University (2015 -2016).

Outstanding Faculty, School of Social Work, College of Health and Human Services, San Diego State University (2010 -2011).

Outstanding Faculty, Department of Gerontology, College of Health and Human Services, San Diego State University (2007 -2008).

Outstanding Faculty, Department of Gerontology, College of Health and Human Services, San Diego State University (2006 -2007).

Outstanding Faculty, Department of Gerontology, College of Health and Human Services, San Diego State University (2005- 2006).

Winner of the first Science Technology 1979 National Science Essay University Competition (U.K.)

Recipient of the Dean’s Prize for best academic achievement, University of East London, U.K. (1979)

MASTER OF SCIENCE THESIS CHAIRPERSON 

2020 Why will Social Security Collapse. Tony Wing Tai Chan

2013 Luck, Control and the Holocaust. Katrine Teplitsky 

2011 An exposition of irregularities in Residential Care Facilities For The Elderly (RCFE) in San Diego and Imperial Counties. Christine M. Murphy

2009 Elder abuse and oral healthcare providers: an intervention to increase knowledge and self-perceived likelihood to report. Julie Ann Sugita 

2009 Job satisfaction and the Shared Care Model as compared with the Traditional Model of hospice care. Carolyn Mae Stevenson 

2008 An evaluation of the local needs assessment process and its ability to represent minority elders in San Diego County. Annette S. Quinata 

2008 Maximizing Medicaid's continuum of care: an analysis of assisted living facilities and nursing home residents. Christina LeBlanc Selder 

2007 The effects of structured educational programming of RCFE residing elderly with cognitive impairments: an evaluation of program participation, quality of life and behavior management. Lindsey Beth Cornwell 

2006 How San Diego religious leaders support their congregant members at end of life. Stacy L. Sampson 2006 A survey of caregiving characteristics. Iris Diaz Canapi 

2005 Comparison of activity of daily living (ADL) impairments between urban and rural elderly nursing home residents in San Diego and Imperial County. Debbie A. Petrocco 

2005 Cultural competency in geriatric case management: promoting the use of primary care. Sonia L. Castro Negron 2005 Existing and potential health promotion services in San Diego: a survey of religious institutions. Lisa Randall 

2005 The exploratory analysis of mental health services in San Diego County's long term care continuum. Gisella Stonier

 2005 Perceptions of elder abuse and help-seeking patterns among different ethnic and age groups. Scott William Code 

2005 The usage of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for treatment of hypertension among Chinese and Taiwanese elderly in Southern California. Shih-Fan Lin 

2005 With friends like these who needs enemies: a study of financial abuse of older adults by caregivers and family members. Kandi Kayne Lee 

2004 Building a dementia care network: a community-based service delivery system for Latino families in San Diego County. Roberto E. Velasquez 

2004 HIV/AIDS epidemiologic trends of the over age 50 population in San Diego County. Norman Douglas Jackson 

2004 Predictors of unsubsidized employment for older workers in a senior community service employment program. Cynthia Lee Hansen 

2004 What are the real-life issues regarding conservatorships in California today? Jacqueline Santangelo-Herman 

Extracurricular Activities

HONORS

Most Popular UCSD-TV Program for 2013

Foreigner Correspondence Club Japan: "The Politics of Alzheimer's Disease and the Impact on Japan"

University of Costa Rica San Diego Aging Conference

University of Costa Rica

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON GERONTOLOGY

Plenary Session July 20th 2023


Master Class

KILLING WITH STATISTICS 

course International Congress on Gerontology Masterclass

Every year I  curate and host an annual COMING OF AGE film festival on aging in San Diego at the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) situated in Balboa Park. The audience enjoy free films together with an introduction and a Q&A afterwards. Since 2011,  COMING OF AGE has been made possible by generous support from local agencies. To review this community program please go to www.comingofageinfilms.com

Blogs translated into other languages:

Russian

Vietnamese

Mandarin

Korean

German

Portuguese

Hindi

Japanese

ACADEMIC PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS (MORE RECENT FIRST)

These papers are being made available here to facilitate the timely dissemination of scholarly work; copyright and all related rights are retained by the copyright holders.


Garrett MD ( 2024) How Attribution Theory Helps to Explain Psychiatric Nosology.American Journal of Health Research (Volume 12, Issue 4)

Garrett MD (under review 2024) The Enemy Within: Pedagogy for the Age of Ageism. Journal of Pedagogy.

Garrett MD (2022) Critical Age Theory. European Journal of Medical and Health Sciences. 4 (6). 

Garrett MD (2022) Book Review Lodge, C., Carnell, E. & Coleman, M. (2016). The new age of ageing: How society need to change. Bristol: Policy Press, 224 pp. ISBN: 978-1447-326830 International Journal on Ageing in Developing Countries, 1 (2): 197-199

Garrett MD (2021) Psychopathology of Dementia: The Role of Memory.  European Journa of Clinical Medicine, Volume-3, Issue-5.

Garrett MD (2021). Social Pathology of Dementia. Arch Neurol & Neurosci. 10(1).

Garrett MD (2021) Letters: The Social Pathology of Dementia. Academia Letters.

Garrett MD (2020) Multiple Causes of Dementia as Engineered Senescence. European Journal of Medical and Health Sciences, Vol2 (2).

Garrett MD (2019) Developing a Modern Mythology for Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Arch Neurol & Neurosci. 4(1).

Garrett, MD (2019) The pitfalls of crowdfunding Alzheimer’s disease research. International Medicine 2019; 1(2): 78-89 | DOI: 10.5455/im.36591

Garrett MD (2019) Curing Alzheimer’s Disease; Myriad Causes and Cures Await. OBM Geriatrics 2019;3(3):16; doi:10.21926/obm.geriatr.1903063.

Garrett MD (2019). Aging as Planned Obsolescence: The Case of Alzheimer’s Disease. Iris J of Nur & Car. 2(1). DOI: 10.33552/IJNC.2019.02.000526.

Garrett, MD & Poulain M (2018). Geography of Aging: The Science of Belonging. Open Science Journal of Psychology Vol. 5, No. 6, 2018, pp. 73-83. 

Garrett MD. (2018) We all have Alzheimer’s Disease: The Legacy of the 2018 National Institute on Aging’s Research Framework Toward a Biological Definition of Alzheimer’s Disease. J Neurol Forecast.  1(1): 1003.

Garrett MD (2018) A Critique of the 2018 National Institute on Aging’s.Research Framework: Toward a biological definition ofAlzheimer’s disease. Curr Neurobiol 9(1): 49-58

Garrett MD & Valle RJ (2016).A Methodological Critique of The National Institute of Aging and Alzheimer’s Association Guidelines for Alzheimer’s disease, Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment. Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice,15(2) 239–254. DOI: 10.1177/1471301214525166

Garrett MD & Valle R (2016) A Century of Confusion in Researching Alzheimer;s Disease. Dementia: The International Journal of Healthcare 2(2), 13-22.

Garrett MD, Valle R (2015) A New Public Health Paradigm for Alzheimer’s Disease Research. SOJ Neurol 2(1), 1-9. 

Garrett MD, Baldridge D, Benson W, Crowder J & Aldrich N (2015). Mental Health Disorders Among an Invisible Minority: Depression and Dementia Among American Indian and Alaska Native Elders.The Gerontologist. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnu181

Garrett MD & Valle RJ (2014).A Methodological Critique of The National Institute of Aging and Alzheimer’s Association Guidelines for Alzheimer’s disease, Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment. Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice.DOI: 10.1177/1471301214525166

Garrett, MD. Geography and the Elderly. (2014). In Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press.  

Valle R, Garrett MD & Velasquez R (2013). Developing Dementia Prevalence rates Among Latinos: Locally Attuned, Data-Based, Service Planning Tool. Journal of Population Ageing Online first, April, 2013)

Garrett MD, Baldridge D & Williams E (2012). American Indians and Alaska Natives in Nursing Home: Initial results from the 2008 Minimum Data Set.  Pimatisiwin. Volume 10 Number 1.

Antoninetti M & Garrett MD (2012). Body Capital and the Geography of Aging. Royal Geographical Society. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2012.01089.x

Sugita JA, & Garrett MD (2012). Elder Abuse and Oral Healthcare Providers: An Intervention to Increase Knowledge and Self Perceived Likelihood to Report. Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect. 24(1):50-64.

Reid JL, Morton DJ, Wingard DL, Garrett MD, von Muhlen D, Slymen D, Field M.(2010). Sex and Age Differences in the Association of Obesity and Smoking with Hypertension and Type 2 Diabetes in Southern California American Indians, 2002–2006. Ethnicity and Disease. 20(3):231–238.

Reid JL, Morton DJ, Wingard DL, Garrett MD, von Muhlen D, Slymen D. (2010) Obesity and Other Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors and their Association with Osteoarthritis in Southern California American Indians, 2002–2006. Ethnicity and Disease.20(4):416-422.

Garrett MD, Baldridge D, Muus K, Baker-Demaray T, Benson WF, & McGuire, LC (2010). Native Migration: In Search of the Missing Cohorts, American Indian and Alaska Native Migration and the Loss of Caregivers in Native Communities. Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Community Health, Vol. 8, No. 1,1-18. 

Garrett MD,  Baldridge D, Benson WF, McGuire LC. (2008). Missing Cohorts of Caregivers Among American Indian and Alaska Native Communities. The IHS Primary Care Provider. Volume 33(4), April:105-111.

Garrett MD & McGuire LC.  (2008). Family Caregivers Declining for American Indians, Alaska Natives. Aging Today Nov-Dec:11.

Garrett MD (2008). Is Our Population Sustainable. Journal of Sustainability 1 (4).

Garrett MD, Morton DJ, & Black KF. (2006) Healthy Aging: Lessons from Isleta Pueblo Elders. Journal of Native Aging and Health. June.

Garrett, MD. (2006) Filial Piety and Capital Transfer as Determinants in the Changing Patterns of Responsibility of the Elderly: Southeast and Eastern Asia as an Accelerated Microcosm. Global Impact: Concerns for an Aging Population. San Diego, CA.

Morton DJ, Garrett MD, Reid J, & Wingard DJ. (2006) “Current Smoking and Type 2 Diabetes In Selected Indian Health Service Clinics, 1998-2003” Am J Public Health. 2008 Mar;98(3):560.

John R, Hennessy CH, Dyeson TB & Garrett MD. (2001). Toward the conceptualization and measurement of caregiver burden among Pueblo Indian family caregivers. The Gerontologist. 2001 41: 210-219.

Griffith SP, Garrett MD, Ramsey P. (2001). Accuracy of Using PCC Data for Measuring Childhood Obesity. The IHS Provider, 26:37-9. 

Garrett MD. (1995). Inequalities in the Utilization of Gerontological Services in Malta: A Micro State Study. The Southwest Journal on Aging, Vol 11, 1.

Garrett MD. (1995). Filial Piety or a Filial Pie: Capital Transfer from the Elderly to their Offspring within Southeast and Eastern Asia in Ingman, SR, Pei X, Ekstrom, CD, Friedsam, HJ & Bartlett, KR (eds) , An Aging Population, An Aging Planet, and a Sustainable Future: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally. Series in Social Policy, Community and Regional Development. University of North Texas, Denton, 1995.

Garrett MD & Scerri M. (1994). Community Services for the Elderly in Malta; In J. Kosberg (ed) International Handbook of Community Services for the Elderly. Greenwood Publications. New York.

Garrett MD. (1994). Indigenous Elderly: Our Invisible Heritage.  Aging International. Volume 21, Number 4. December, 1994:43-46

Kinnie N, & Garrett M (1993). Managerial Strategies for Flexible Employment: An analysis using cross-sectional data. Management Research News, Vol. 12 Iss: 3, pp.14 – 15. DOI:10.1108/eb028018

Blanchflower DG, Oswald AJ & Garrett MD. (1990). Insider Power in Wage Determination: 1980 and 1984. Economica,  57, 143-70.

Blanchflower DG, Oswald AJ, Garrett MD & Deeks AJ. (1987). Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment in Britain. UK Department of Employment Working Paper. London, U.K.

Garrett MD. (1982) Electroconvulsive Therapy and its non-Efficacy. Journal of Science and Technology, UK. Nov.

SELECTED NON-REFEERED PUBLICATIONS (chronological order)

Blanchflower DG, Oswald AJ, Garrett MD & Deeks AJ. (1987). Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment in Britain. UK Department of Employment Working Paper. London, U.K.

Garrett MD & Allerton M. (1989). Methodology and Initial Statistics of the YOUTHSCAN Longitudinal  Survey - Part I.  International Centre for Child Studies. Bristol, U.K.

Kinnie N & Garrett MD. (1989). Management Strategies for Flexible Employment: An analysis using cross-sectional data.  Management Research News, Vol 12(3).

Cuscheri A, Delia L, Garrett MD & Troisi J (1993).   Evaluation of Existing Services for the Elderly and their Implications in Planning for Future Services in the light of Economic Realities and Demographic Trends. White Paper, Government of Malta, Parliamentary Secretary for the Care of the Elderly.

Garrett MD. (1991). Life Expectancy: A Global Analysis and Critique.  BOLD, Vol.1 No.2. UN-INIA, Malta.

Garrett MD. (1992). Changing Patterns of Responsibility: East and Southeast Asia as an accelerated microcosm. In United Nations Population Division.  Proceedings of the Expert Group Meeting on Population and Demographic Structure, UNFPA, New York.

Garrett MD. (1993). Emerging Needs in Developing Countries: Two scenarios. BOLD. Vol.4 No.1. UN-INIA, Malta.

Garrett MD. (1993). Emerging Trends and Needs: A scenario for change. New Series of Papers in Gerontology, University of Liverpool, UK.

Cuscheri A, Delia L, Garrett MD & Troisi J (1993).   Evaluation of Existing Services for the Elderly and their Implications in Planning for Future Services in the light of Economic Realities and Demographic Trends. White Paper, Government of Malta, Parliamentary Secretary for the Care of the Elderly.

Garrett MD. (1994). Ageing in East and Southeast Asia: Is family support a viable policy? BOLD. Vol 4, No. 3. UN-INIA, Malta.

Garrett MD. (1994). Indigenous Elderly People: First Global Estimates.  BOLD. Vol 4, No. 4. UN-INIA, Malta.

Baldridge D, Baros S , Campos B, Garrett MD, Henriksen L  & Inglis M. (1996). Mapping Indian Elders...An initiative of the National Indian Council on Aging.  National Indian Council on Aging, July 1996.

Garrett MD. (1997). New Mexico American Indian Elders: A Demographic and Services Profile. New Mexico Office for Indian Affairs/Indian Area Agency on Aging, February 1997.

Garrett MD (2000).  The Mapping of Gerontological Data. BOLD. Vol 10, No. 2. UN-INIA, Malta.

Garrett MD & Menke KA. (2002). Indian No More: Inconsistent Classification of American Indians and Alaska Natives in Medicare. NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol 2, No. 2.

Garrett MD, Menke KA, Inglis M, & Baldridge D. (2002). Where and How Indians Die: Context of American Indian and Alaska Native Deaths. NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol 3, No. 2.

Garrett MD,  Menke KA, Baldridge D & Inglis M. (2002). American Indians and Alaska Natives in the 2000 U.S. Census Part 1. NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol 3, No. 3.

Garrett MD & Menke KA. (2002). The Continued Disappearance of Indians in Medicaid. NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol 3, No. 4.

Garrett MD. (2003). USRDS Users Guide. NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol. 6, No. 1.

Garrett MD &  Baldridge D. (2003). Summary of Results from the USRDS Network 1: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island & Vermont.  NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol. 5, No.1.

Garrett MD &  Baldridge D. (2003). Summary of Results from the USRDS Network 2; New York.  NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol. 5, No. 2.

Garrett MD &  Baldridge D. (2003). Summary of Results from the USRDS Network 3: New Jersey, Puerto Rico & Virgin Islands.  NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol. 5, No. 3.

Garrett MD &  Baldridge D. (2003). Summary of Results from the USRDS Network 4: Delaware & Pennsylvania.  NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol. 5, No. 4.

Garrett MD &  Baldridge D. (2003). Summary of Results from the USRDS Network 5: Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland & District of Columbia.  NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol. 5, No. 5.

Garrett MD &  Baldridge D. (2003). Summary of Results from the USRDS Network 6:  Georgia, North Carolina & South Carolina.  NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol. 5, No. 6.

Garrett MD &  Baldridge D. (2003). Summary of Results from the USRDS Network 7:  Florida.  NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol. 5, No. 7.

Garrett MD &  Baldridge D. (2003). Summary of Results from the USRDS Network 8: Alabama, Mississippi & Tennessee.  NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol. 5, No. 8.

Garrett MD &  Baldridge D. (2003). Summary of Results from the USRDS Network 9/10: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky & Ohio.  NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol. 5, No. 9.

Garrett MD &  Baldridge D. (2003). Summary of Results from the USRDS Network 11: Minnesota, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota & Wisconsin.  NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol. 5, No. 10.

Garrett MD &  Baldridge D. (2003). Summary of Results from the USRDS Network 12: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri &  Nebraska.  NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol. 5, No. 11.

Garrett MD &  Baldridge D. (2003). Summary of Results from the USRDS Network 13: Arkansas, Louisiana & Oklahoma.  NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol. 5, No. 12.

Garrett MD &  Baldridge D. (2003). Summary of Results from the USRDS Network 14: Texas.  NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol. 5, No. 13.

Garrett MD &  Baldridge D. (2003). Summary of Results from the USRDS Network 15: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah & Wyoming.  NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol. 5, No. 14.

Garrett MD &  Baldridge D. (2003). Summary of Results from the USRDS Network 16: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon & Washington.  NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol. 5, No. 15.

Garrett MD &  Baldridge D. (2003). Summary of Results from the USRDS Network 17: American Samoa, Guam, Mariana Islands, Hawaii & Northern California.  NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol. 5, No. 16.

Garrett MD &  Baldridge D. (2003). Summary of Results from the USRDS Network 18: Southern California.  NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol. 5, No. 17.

Garrett MD, Baldridge D, Menke KA. (2003). Health Disparities Among Americans. NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol. 10, No. 1. Sponsored by the Papa Ola Kahali and Out of Many One.

Garrett MD. (2003). Asthma Among American Indians.  NICOA’s Monograph Series, Vol. 6, No. 1. Sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Garrett MD (2008). Editorial: Is Our Population Sustainable? San Diego Union-Tribune. August 15.

Garrett MD (2008). Is Our Population Sustainable? Journal of Sustainability. Issue 1(4), Sept: online:  http://journalofsustainability.com/lifetype/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=4&blogId=1

Garrett MD. (2009). The Sustainability of Dying? Journal of Sustainability. Issue 2(2), February: online: http://journalofsustainability.com/lifetype/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=45&blogId=1

Garrett MD.(2009) Activities, Adaptation & Aging volume 33 issue 4. Book Review of "The Handbook of Aging and Cognition" by F. I. M. Craik and T. A. Salthouse, eds. pages 267.

Garrett MD (2015) Genetic Longevity. Encyclopedia of health & aging. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412956208

Garrett MD (2015) Lifespan. Encyclopedia of health & aging. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412956208

Garrett MD (2015) Life Expectancy. Encyclopedia of health & aging. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412956208

Garrett MD (2015) Dementia and Depression Among American Indians and Alaska Native Elders.  Atlas of Science. 

BOOKS

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Chair, Commission on Aging, La Mesa City Council (Mayoral Nominee 2006- 2012)

Chair, Council on Minority Aging (2005-2007)

Board Member, Alzheimer’s Association San Diego and Imperial county Chapters, Medical and Scientific Board (2009- 2018)

Board Member, The Glenner Memory Care Centers, Medical and Scientific Board (2012- present)

Secretary, Board of Directors, CSA San Diego County  (2007- 2018)

Consultant, Tierrasanta Village, a Naturally Occurring Retirement Community initiative.


Sample Social Network Sites (San Diego Union Tribune Articles not included, 120 PsychologyToday articles have been deleted after they censored my articles.) 

An award winning blog that collates all these blogs in one place can be accessed at iAge. Another blog addresses a more personal view of aging at iAging). 

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