"I thought I knew Jacqueline until I
read her book. Wow, what a story! If you’re caring for
an elder, you won’t believe how much this book will help you!”
—Regis Philbin
AARP's Bulletin "It's like fiction, or a made-for-TV movie, filled with
despair and deception, then resolution and redemption--
leavened by doses of humor."
Coping
with Caregiving
with Jacqueline Marcell
Saturday 3:00 - 5:00PM PST
Saturday
3p - 5p PST
02.12.04
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With...
Cameron Camp, Ph.D., is a research psychologist specializing in applied gerontology. He is Director and Senior Research Scientist at the Myers Research Institute in Cleveland, Ohio. His research focuses on finding cognitive and behavioral interventions for use with persons with dementia. He has co-authored three college textbooks and published over 100 articles. His research is currently funded by grants from the national Alzheimer’s Association, the National Institute on Aging, and the National Institute of Mental Health.
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Kathy Sykes is the Senior Advisor for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Aging Initiative.
Through public outreach, education and partnerships, Kathy works to raise awareness among older adults, caregivers, health care providers, and the leaders in the aging community about environmental health hazards--and encourages older adults to become stewards to address environmental challenges that face our aging society. WebSite
Gail Goeller
is the author of "Coming of Age with Aging Parents:
The Bungles, Battles, and Blessings".
Gail melds
the academic with "real-life" honesty, recanting sixty
compassionate, colorful, and often humorous vignettes
about the recent 12-year experience she and her husband
shared with five local, aging relatives. Probing questions
help the reader reframe events in their own eldercare
experience, so they can emerge with fresh perspectives
and increased purpose, power, and happiness. WebSite
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With...
Bella
Dinh-Zarr, PhD, MPH, is the National Director of Traffic
Safety Policy for the American Automobile Association.
She has experience in injury prevention from working with:
the University of Texas, the Cochrane Collaboration Injury
Group in London, the Texas Transportation Institute, the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration. She leads AAA's
"Lifelong Safe Mobility," promoting transportation safety
and mobility for seniors.
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P.K. Beville,
PhD., is founder of Second Wind Dreams,
--a non-profit
organization making dreams come true for nursing home
and assisted living residents. She is a Geriatric Specialist,
who after 14 years of service in long-term care, saw a
real need to develop a program highlighting our elders
and involving the community as they make dreams come true.
Approximately 3 dreams come true every day. P.K. is a
well-known speaker and has conducted keynotes to hundreds
of organizations.
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Ralph Leisle,
is the President of LTCi Decision Systems, Inc.
--and
has been involved with the financial impact of long-term
care events on family wealth for the past 15 years. As
a former corporate executive who developed methods to
simplify complex decisions, he felt financial and other
LTC advisors needed a tool to help make sound financial
decisions about future long term care costs. As a result,
his company released the "LTC Economic Impact Planning
Model", a patent pending software program.WebSite
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Shows: February 12 and March 12. For upcoming guests, see
Coping with Caregiving entries by date here.
Coping
with Caregiving is an uplifting program and a valuable resource
for anyone coping with the challenges of caregiving,
and for everyone who thinks it will never happen to them.
Jacqueline Marcell is a former college professor &
television executive, who after the experience of caring
for her elderly parents has become an author, publisher
and sought-after national speaker, dedicating her life
to eldercare awareness and reform. She is the devoted daughter
in her riveting true story, "Elder Rage, or Take
My Father... Please! How To Survive Caring For
Aging Parents," written she says, "so that no one
else would ever have to go through what I did."
"Elder Rage" is endorsed by: Hugh Downs,
Regis Philbin, Dr. Dean Edell, Duke University Center
for Aging, Dr. Nancy Snyderman/ABC News, Ed Asner,
Betty Friedan, Art Linkletter, Dr. Bernie Siegel,
John Bradshaw, Dr. John Gray, Senator John D. Rockefeller
IV and The Johns Hopkins Memory Clinic.
