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Louise's area of specialization is the influence of neurodegenerative disease processes on older adults' ability to adapt to residential environments. Her dissertation research focuses on environmental memories and wandering behavior among persons with Alzheimer's disease following residential relocation. Previously, she was Research Fellow at The Breckinridge, an Alzheimer's residence, where she lived on-site for 18 months while conducting in-depth ethnographic participant observation research and working as a caregiver. Louise is a Certified Dementia Care Mapping Evaluator, personally trained by Dr. Tom Kitwood of the Bradford Dementia Group in England. Under his direction, she conducted the first field tests of this methodological tool in the USA. Louise is currently employed as Project Coordinator for the UMBC/UNC Collaborative Studies in Long-Term Care: "Transitions from Assisted Living: Sociocultural Aspects" study under the direction of Dr. J. Kevin Eckert, and as Research Assistant for the Research Institute on Aging, Hebrew Home of Greater Washington, Rockville, MD, under the direction of Dr. Jiska Cohen-Mansfield.