Uri Amir-Koren

Uri Amir-Koren is a PhD student at the Rutgers School of Social Work. Uri’s research interests focus on the detriments to social connectedness across the life span, particularly the experience of loneliness and social isolation, as it manifests in older adults who lack traditional familial social networks, such as solo agers (e.g., single people who are child-free), aging LGBTQ+ people, and immigrants living away from their familial networks. He also maintains a secondary interest in the lived experiences of diaspora populations at times of homeland conflict.