Karen Moss is a registered nurse and tenured associate professor of nursing in the College of Nursing at The Ohio State University. She is a distinguished fellow in the National Academies of Practice – Nursing Academy and a Gerontological Society of America Fellow. Dr. Moss is an expert in the conduct of research with Black family caregivers of people living with dementia with significant focus on advance care planning, pain, and peer support from palliative and end-of-life care perspectives. She examines multiple perspectives on factors that influence decision-making processes for Black American older adults living with dementia and their family caregivers.
Dr. Moss’ research is also focused on developing and testing Pair 2 Care©, a co-created peer support intervention to support Black American family caregivers of people living with dementia. Through her work, Dr. Moss and her team are working to improve the quality of life of Black family caregivers and their older adults living with dementia. She is the principal investigator in the Family Caregiver Community Research (FamCare) Laboratory and member of the Pain and Aging Lab. Dr. Moss is also an assistant professor and mixed methods core faculty member in the Center for Health Outcomes in Medicine, Scholarship and Service (HOMES) in the Division of Internal Medicine in the College of Medicine.
