E. Ayn Welleford M.S., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Gerontologist for Community Voice
Gerontology Virginia Center on Aging
Ayn Welleford, M.S. (Gerontology), Ph.D., is a Developmental Gerontologist. She has taught extensively in the areas of adult development and aging, compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction, person-centered care, ethical decision-making and disrupting ageism. Throughout her thirty year career at VCU, she has worked to bridge classroom and community, #DisruptAgeism, and creating age-inclusive cultures where all ages are celebrated. She works to equip and affirm the present and future eldercare workforce community to bring forth meaningful change through person-centered and purpose-driven care.
Dr. Welleford serves as the InterAge Director for LLI Chesterfield, which is a fresh approach to building an age-inclusive future by fostering connection, purpose and belonging across ages, reducing ageism and strengthening community wellbeing.
Dr. Welleford is a certified Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator through the Appreciative Inquiry Commons. She regularly facilitates interactive community dialogues to provide a platform for participants to critically examine their perceptions and experiences of aging, confront ageism and implicit bias and co-create practical anti-ageist strategies.
She has been known to say, “Let’s do something that does something.”
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