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Tera Stegner: Serving with purpose

Tera Stegner has a heart for the elderly in Corvallis, the college town she’s come to know and love since transferring to Oregon State her junior year to study gerontology, part of the Human Development and Family Sciences program in the CPHHS.

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The importance of intergenerational communities

“My big dreams are to see Western culture and society start to view long-term care differently and put a higher value on the elders in our society and how they might be better respected, cared for and integrated into community,” she says.