Interview with Barbara Helm, September 26, 2001

Project: University of Kentucky Oral History Project

Interview Summary

Barbara Helm is a former Ph.D. student in Gerontology at UK and currently works with the Breckenridge, an Alzheimer's care facility associated with the University of Kentucky. Helm states that she decided to apply to the Gerontology Ph.D. program in 1990, while she was working as the Education Coordinator for the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center of the UK's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging. She also has a Master's degree in Gerontology. She states that her enthusiasm for the program waned when the planning process and politics delayed its approval, but that members of the department encouraged her to persevere. Helm entered the first class of the program with seven other students. She explains that she completed two courses while working full-time and doing consulting work. Helm states that she realized she could not reconcile the academic focus with her real-world experience, and decided to take a job offered by the Breckenridge and leave the Ph.D. program. When Helm was briefed during her exit interview from the Ph. D. program, she emphasized that the spiritual component was left out of her studies, which she considered a large gap in the study of the aging process. Helm also discusses problems with the program since they want experienced students, but only teach the basics.

Interview Accession

2001oh069_af622

Interviewee Name

Barbara Helm

Interviewer Name

Marian Roman

Interview Date

2001-09-26

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Helm, Barbara Interview by Marian Roman. 26 Sep. 2001. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Helm, B. (2001, September 26). Interview by M. Roman. University of Kentucky Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Helm, Barbara, interview by Marian Roman. September 26, 2001, University of Kentucky Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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