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Heather Menne

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, Case Western Reserve University
MGS, ¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒ
BA, Psychology and French, Ripon College

Research Interests

dementia, caregiving, home- and community-based services, aging policy

Bio Sketch

Heather L. Menne is a skilled health policy researcher, project manager, and collaborator with over 15 years of Federal and non-profit experience and expertise in aging and disability programs and services. Her research career has focused on older people, people with disabilities, and long-term services and supports (LTSS), with a specific emphasis on people living with dementia, family caregivers, and formal caregivers. She also conducts evaluations of evidence-based and evidence-informed dementia programs for older adults and family caregivers. She has experience in community-based technical assistance, qualitative and quantitative research methods, evaluation design, and survey development, as well as data management and statistical analysis.

Dr. Menne serves on the editorial boards of Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice and the Journal of Applied Gerontology. Before joining the ¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒ faculty, she worked at RTI International, the Administration for Community Living, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and as a Senior Research Scientist at the Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging. In 2013-2014 she was a Health and Aging Policy Fellow (HAPF) in the office of Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA).

Selected Publications and Technical Papers

• DiBenedetti, D., Menne, H., Paulsen, R., Krasa, H.B., Vradenburg, G., Comer, M., Callahan, L.F., Winfield, J., Potashman, M., Heithoff, K., Hartry, A., Oberdhan, D., Wilson, H., Hoffman, D.L., Weinberg, D., Kremer, I.N., Taylor, G.A., Taylor, J.M., Lappin, D., Martin, A.D., Hauber, B., & Romano (DeMuro), C. (2023). Technical review of clinical outcomes assessments across the continuum of Alzheimer's disease. Neurology & Therapy, 12(2), 571-595.

• Menne, H., Gordon, K., Gould, E., Farah Miller, E., Yuen, P., Shuman, S., & Stockdale, H. (2023, August). Promising programs and services for people living alone with dementia. Prepared by the National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center for the U.S. Administration on Aging.
• Derzon, J.H. & Menne, H.L. (2022). Implementation science: An approach for evaluating aging policies and services. Public Policy & Aging Report, 32(1), 34-35.
• Menne, H.L. (2022). Difficulties demonstrating Impact of OAA programming and glimmers of hope. Generations Journal, 45 (4/ Winter 2021-2022).
• Menne, H.L., Hunter, M., Gould, E., Palmer, L., Yuen, P., Murray, M.J., Gordon, K., Shuman, S.B., Hughes, S., Knowles, M., & Walsh, E.G. (2021). Filling the gaps in dementia-capable home and community-based services: Report on Completed Administration for Community Living ADI-SSS grants to communities and states. Prepared by the National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Aging.
• Robinson, K.N., Menne, H.L., & Gaeta, R. (2021). Use of informal support as a predictor of home- and community-based services utilization. Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 76(1), 133- 140.  
• Morgan, R. E., Dragon, C., Daus, G., Holzberg, J., Kaplan, R., Menne, H., Symens Smith, A., & Spiegelman, M. (2020, August). Updates on terminology of sexual orientation and gender identity survey measures. FCSM 20-03. Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology.

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