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Associate Professor
UTK College of Nursing
Education
BSN, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1969 MPH University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1973 EdD, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, 1988 MSN, Emory University, Atlanta, 1997
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Biography
Dr. McGuire is Chair of the MSN Program, coordinates
the Adult Health MSN Concentration, and is a gerontological nurse
practitioner. Outside of her teaching and administrative responsibilities
at the College of Nursing. In 1985 she founded the Kids Are Tomorrow’s
Seniors (KATS) program that focused on promoting positive attitudes
about aging with young children. She has coordinated and taught
in gerontological nursing review courses to prepare nurses to
become gerontological nurse generalists.
Dr. McGuire has served as Convener and Co-convener
of the Gerontology Colloquy on campus since 1997. Through the
service learning component of her course “Aging & Society”
she has linked herself and her students with volunteer service
to numerous agencies in Knox and surrounding counties. Through
her efforts UT students have actively participated in community
activities such as the annual Alzheimer’s Memory Walk.
She has served on the Covenant Senior Health
Advisory Board for Knox County since 1998. She is a member-at-large
to the Knoxville-Knox County Council on Aging. She served on the
Senior Task Force for the Nine Counties One Vision initiative
in 2000. She is presently working with the U. S. Administration
on Aging to explore the possibility of a children’s initiative
at the agency to help prepare children for the long life ahead
of them.
Since 1987 she has compiled and updated a booklist:
Growing Up & Growing Older: Books for Young Readers that has
been published on 3 occasions in the ERIC system. Every book on
this booklist has a positive portrayal of an older adult and can
be used to help promote more positive attitudes about aging with
children. Dr. McGuire donated the book collection to Hodges Library,
Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. The annotated
bibliography of the booklist is available at the Hodges Library
web site (http://lib.utk.edu/refs/ccyal/research.html).
Dr. McGuire serves as a consultant to the National
Academy for Teaching and Learning About Aging. She is a reviewer
for the journal Gerontology and Geriatrics Education.
Her research and scholarly activity has focused on aging education
with children, children’s literature and aging, and the
need to promote more positive attitudes about aging. She regularly
presents papers at international, national, regional, and state
level conferences. She has published aging education curricular
materials for young children in the ERIC system and is dedicated
to creating a generation of Americans that understand and value
their own aging and the older people around them.
