Dena Shenk

Dena Shenk is Emerita Professor of Anthropology at UNC Charlotte. She is the author of Someone to Lend a Helping Hand: Women Growing Old in Rural Society (Gordon & Breach Science Publishers Ltd, 1998) and has published numerous articles and book chapters about aging, people living with dementia, and their formal caregivers in the US, Denmark and Peru.

Dena Shenk is Emerita Professor of Anthropology at UNC Charlotte. She is the author of Someone to Lend a Helping Hand: Women Growing Old in Rural Society (Gordon & Breach Science Publishers Ltd, 1998) and has published numerous articles and book chapters about aging, people living with dementia, and their formal caregivers in the US, Denmark and Peru. See less