Donna Benton is an associate research professor of gerontology at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, as well as the director of the USC Family Caregiver Support Center/Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center. She has more than 30 years of experience in working to improve services and support to persons with dementia. She received her graduate training in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology and was a gero-psychological postdoctoral fellow at USC/Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center.