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Margaret (Meg) Newhouse, PhD, CPCC
Meg Newhouse is a pioneer in Third-Age lifecrafting and a
group facilitator, teacher, coach, and program designer. She
coaches individuals, gives talks and workshops, writes, and
consults with organizations, helping people create vital,
fulfilling later lives. She is also founder and past president
of the Life Planning Network (New England), a member of ICF
and ICF-NE, and the author (with Judy Goggin) of Life
Planning for the Third Age: A Design Guide and Toolkit.
Her clients include Civic Ventures and Tufts University, and
she recently co-taught a course on post-midlife development
at the Brandeis BOLLI. She holds a BA from Wellesley College,
an MAT from Harvard University, and PhD in political science
from UCLA. Previous careers include high school and college
teaching, academic administration, and career counseling at
Harvard, where she wrote Cracking the Academia Nut
and Outside the Ivory Tower.
Helen Dennis
Helen Dennis is a specialist on issues of aging, employment
and retirement. She was a lecturer for over 20 years at the
University of Southern California’s Andrus Gerontology
Center, teaching courses in retirement planning and aging
and business. In her consulting practice, she’s worked
with over 10,000 employees (including senior executives/managers,
factory workers, and university faculty), planning for the
“non-financial” aspects of retirement. She has
edited two books, Retirement Preparation and Fourteen
Steps in Managing an Aging Work Force, and conducted
research on age, employment, and retirement issues for organizations
such as Conference Board, AARP, and the U.S. Administration
on Aging. She also writes the weekly “Successful Aging”
column for the (Torrance, Ca) Daily Breeze, and is co-founder
of Project Renewment, which addresses issues/opportunities
confronting career women facing retirement. As a volunteer,
she is chairperson of HELP (Healthcare and Elder Law Programs)
and national chairperson of ASA’s Business Forum on
Aging.
Larry D. Wright, MD
Larry Wright is a geriatrician with almost 30 years of clinical
practice experience in Northwest Arkansas. His formal post-graduate
medical education includes internal medicine residency training
and a fellowship in geriatric medicine. He’s board certified
in both areas by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
In addition to his clinical practice of geriatric medicine,
he is medical director of Senior Health Centers of Northwest
Health Systems, overseeing the medical care in four senior
clinics and two community hospitals. Since its founding in
January 1999, he has served as director of the Schmieding
Center for Senior Health and Education, a program of the Donald
W. Reynolds Institute on Aging and one of seven regional centers
on aging of the Arkansas Aging Initiative. He’s also
an assistant professor at the Donald W. Reynolds Department
of Geriatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Most recently, he was named co-director of the Caregiving
Project for Older Americans, a national initiative addressing
the in-home caregiver workforce crisis.
Neal E. Cutler, PhD
Neal Cutler is executive director of the Center on Aging of
the Motion Picture and Television Fund. He was previously
vice president and dean of educational programs of the American
Institute of Financial Gerontology and associate director
of the gerontology program at the University of North Carolina/Greensboro.
He held Boettner/Gregg Chair in financial gerontology at Widener
University, where he directed Financial Literacy 2000, a research
program focusing on the impact of aging on issues of finance,
health, retirement and families. He's also director of survey
research of the National Council on Aging. From 1973 to 1989,
he held dual appointments as professor of political science
and gerontology at the University of Southern California,
and was associate director of the Andrus Gerontology Center's
Institute for Advanced Study in Gerontology and Geriatrics.
Additionally, he is an associate editor of the Journal
of Financial Service Professionals, and serves on the
editorial boards of The Gerontologist and the American
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias. Between
1997-99 he was editor of Financial Gerontology Review, a publication
of the National Institute of Financial Services for Elders.
He was a consulting editor to the Encyclopedia of Financial
Gerontology, and is co-author of Aging, Money, and
Life Satisfaction: Aspects of Financial Gerontology and
Can You Afford to Retire? His most recent book was
Advising Mature Clients: The New Science of Wealth
Span Planning. He’s been published in over 200 journals
and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal,
New York Times, Kiplinger's Personal Finance,
CBS News and NPR's "All Things Considered."
Janice I. Wassel, PhD
Janice Wassel is director of the gerontology program and a
member of the Department of Sociology faculty at the University
of North Carolina/Greensboro. She holds dual degrees from
Pennsylvania State University in demography and sociology.
She received both pre- and post-doctoral NIA training grants
and completed an NIA internship. Her gerontology research
focuses on how couples make decisions about retirement timing,
post-retirement employment after forced retirement, cohort
studies, pension wealth, the relationship of family caregiving
and depression, and family structures and decision-making
in caregiving relationships. She is a founding member of the
North Carolina Gerontology Consortium, and, at UNC-Greensboro,
has been centrally involved in the creation of the dual MS
in Gerontology/MBA Degree program, one of the first such programs
in the country. She has been published in Social Forces,
Research on Aging, The Gerontologist, and
Journals of Gerontology, as well as a number of book
chapters, reports, newspapers and newsletters. She also frequently
presents research at state and national conferences. She’s
involved in several professional associations, including the
Population Association of America, Gerontological Society
of America, Association for Gerontology in Higher Education,
Southern Gerontological Society, and American Society on Aging.
She serves on several committees of these organizations, was
managing editor of Research on Aging, and is current editor
of AGHE’s Sigma Phi Omega newsletter. She serves on
the North Carolina Western Chapter's Alzheimer's Association
executive board and the Orange County Advisory Board on Aging,
Human Services Advisory Commission, and Senior Services of
Guilford's advisory board.
James Siberski, MS
James Siberski is coordinator of the Gerontology Education
Center for Professional Development and an assistant professor
of gerontology at Misericordia University, as well as an adjunct
professor of psychiatry at Pennsylvania State University.
He’s also former director of Misericordia’s Alternative
Learning program. Prior to his retirement, he was director
of staff development of Danville State Hospital. He’s
certified in re-motivation therapy and gerontology instruction
and has had extended training in several areas, including
cybernetics of treatment, behavior modification, and geriatrics.
He has presented over 100 workshops nationally on various
aging-related topics and has been published in a number of
professional and trade journals. He’s a member of the
board of trustees at Maria Joseph Manor and an affiliate of
the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatrists.
Helene Feldman
Helene Feldman is president/founder of Helene Feldman Inc.
Elder Care Management, a private geriatric care-management
firm. She has over 25 years of experience working for and
with geriatric healthcare providers, including rehabilitation
hospitals, home care agencies, retirement communities, independent
and assisted living facilities, dementia units, adult daycare
centers, and skilled nursing facilities. She has also trained
medical students about home care issues involving patients,
caregivers, and resources/entitlements. She’s a member
of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care
Managers, as well as a board member and secretary of the Philadelphia
area chapter. Her other memberships include the American Society
on Aging, Eastern Pennsylvania Geriatric Society, Professional
Care Alliance of the Delaware Valley, Alzheimer’s Association
and Children of Aging Parents. She received her BA from Temple
University and a certificate in gerontology from Temple University
Medical School’s Institute on Aging. Additionally, she
holds a certificate from the National Academy of Certified
Care Managers.
M. Catherine Wollman
Cathy Wollman has been the coordinator of the Gerontological
Nurse Practitioner Program at Neumann College for six years.
She holds an MSN and Post-Master’s certificate from
University of Pennsylvania. She has been an advanced practice
nurse and certified geriatric nurse practitioner for over
20 years with a range of experience with older adults in all
health care settings. Additionally, she has been involved
with management of senior health services, a legal expert
for witness services, and a consultant to community services
that support aging. She has presented multiple national and
regional presentations on topics related to gerontology and
the healthcare of older adults.
Karen C. Buck, Esq
Karen Buck has been executive director and COO of SeniorLAW
Center, a Philadelphia-based organization that protects the
legal rights and interests of older adults in need, since
1997. She’s responsible for the organization's financial
stability, and overall supervision of its staff of attorneys,
legal assistants, and support. She earned her law degree from
Villanova University School of Law, where she served as chair
of the Moot Court Board. Prior to joining SeniorLAW, she was
engaged in private practice at a Philadelphia law firm, focusing
on complex litigation and serving as pro bono coordinator.
She has many years of experience working with various public
interest and community organizations as a volunteer attorney,
child advocate, mentor, and teacher of ESL (English as a Second
Language) and GED-required classes. She is especially committed
to ensuring that SeniorLAW services are available to the many
diverse communities in the city, and was involved in the launch
of several new programs in the Latino and Asian communities.
Grace H. Lebow, LICSW
Grace LeBow is a co-founder of Aging Network Services, which
was established in 1982. The organization provides psychotherapy
and care management for older adults and their families in
the Washington, D.C. Metro area as well as nationally through
a network of social work care managers. She also is co-author
of Coping With Your Difficult Older Parent: A Guide for
Stressed-Out Children, a self-help book for grown children
that has also been widely used by professionals who work with
older adults with personality disorders. She holds degrees
in occupational therapy from Tufts University and in social
work from Simmons College. She was the 2002 recipient of the
Distinguished Career Award from Simmons School of Social Work,
and in 2004 was honored by the NASW Foundation as a social
work pioneer and with the Knee/Whittman Lifetime Achievement
Award in Health and Mental Health.
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