Marti DeLiema

Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work
University of Minnesota

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Serves as the Associate Director of Education for the Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation (CHAI) at the University of Minnesota, and the faculty advisor for the student-led Aging Studies Interdisciplinary Group.
  • DeLiema holds the 2024-2025 Fesler Lampert Chair in Aging Studies.
  • Research is funded by the National Institute of Justice, the National Institute on Aging, the Social Security Administration, the Administration for Community Living, AARP, and the FINRA Investor Education Foundation.

Marti DeLiema is a gerontologist and Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Minnesota. DeLiema believes that avoiding financial abuse and fraud is a critical component of well-being in later life, yet victimization causes millions of Americans to become financially fragile. Using both quantitative and qualitative research methods, DeLiema studies financial victimization using focus groups, in-depth interviews, surveys, and panel data.

She regularly collaborates with financial institutions, AARP, the FINRA Foundation, and federal protection agencies to analyze victimization risk factors and test efforts to inoculate consumers from fraud and abuse through enhanced consumer education and advance care planning interventions.