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1. Amy Shelf, Caring.com Expert

   

   Amy Shelf received an undergraduate degree from Columbia University and a J.D. from Hastings College of the Law, where she graduated magna cum laude. While in law school, she had an externship with the San Francisco Probate Department, where she learned as much about family psychology as she did about probate practice.

   Shelf has spent her entire legal career as a lawyer practicing estate planning and guiding clients as they plan for the certainties and uncertainties of the future. After practicing for several years with a law firm, she opened her own practice concentrating on affordable estate plans for clients of all means, with an emphasis on involving family members -- especially adult children -- in the planning process.

   Shelf's childhood weekends were spent with her grandmother, the director of a senior center, who gave her the opportunity to see joy and dignity in aging and from whom she inherited her outspokenness.

2. Andrea Seewald, Caring.com Expert

   Andrea Seewald is a licensed social worker and president of Senior Care Consultants and the Care Registry in Pittsburgh.

3. Andrew Putnam, Caring.com Expert

   

   Andrew Putnam, M.D. is the director of the Palliative Care Program at Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and Georgetown University.

4. Anita Silverman, Caring.com Expert

   Anita Silverman is a geriatric care manager in Lake Worth, Florida.

5. Ann Cason, Caring.com Expert

   

   Ann Cason, as founder and director of Circles of Care, provides caregiving, consulting, and training services for families and caregivers of elderly people, as well as public and private organizations concerned with eldercare issues. She is the author of Circles of Care: How to Set Up Quality Home Care for Our Elders.

6. Anton P. Porsteinsson, Caring.com Expert

   Anton P. Porsteinsson is the director of the Alzheimer's Disease Care, Research, and Education Program (AD-CARE) and the Memory Disorders Clinic at the University of Rochester. He's also an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.

7. Ashley Biteler, Caring.com Expert

   Ashley Biteler is a trusts and estates attorney in Chesapeake, Virginia.

8. Audrey Wuerl, RN, BSN

   

   My name is Audrey Wuerl, RN, BSN, Education Coordinator for Hospice of San Joaquin, a premier Joint Commission Accredited hospice in the San Joaquin Valley of California. My primary role as educator is to enhance and enlarge understanding of quality end-of-life care for physicians, nurses, hospitals, nursing facilities, and the community.

9. Barbara Kate Repa, Caring.com Senior Editor

   

   Barbara Kate Repa, a lawyer and journalist, has devoted her career to editing and writing about legal issues for consumers. Shes the author of WillMaker (Nolo), best-selling software that enables consumers to write their own wills, healthcare directives, powers of attorney, and final arrangements. Shes also an instructor for AIDS caregivers, teaching about legal end-of-life issues and funeral planning, and she recently wrote the content for a website for those searching for long-term care in California.
   

   Early in life, Barbara Kate forged a deep relationship with her grandmother, who taught her the enduring and addictive skill of knitting. New to California twenty years ago, she sought out friendships with older people -- and found hundreds of them when she became president of the Bay Area Funeral Society, a feisty consumer group aiming to stamp out abuses in the funeral industry. She is the resource to whom friends turn first for advice on dealing with legal and personal care issues for aging parents and disabled spouses and partners.

10. Barbara Steinberg, Caring.com Expert

    Barbara Steinberg is a certified financial planner, a certified estate advisor, and founder of BSA Advisors, a financial planning firm for senior citizens.

11. Barry M. Massie, Caring.com Expert

    Barry M. Massie is professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and chief of cardiology at the San Francisco V.A. Medical Center. Susan E. Ammon is a nurse practitioner at the San Francisco V.A. Medical Center Heart Failure Clinic.

12. Beth Reardon, Caring.com Senior Food & Nutrition Editor

    

    Beth Reardon, Caring.com senior food and nutrition editor, is the director of integrative nutrition at Duke Integrative Medicine. She takes a holistic approach to wellness, recognizing that the foundation for optimal health and healing begins with a health-promoting diet. Reardon also serves on the advisory board of Natural Solutions magazine and the Council on Nutrition for Contemporary OB/GYN, a peer-reviewed journal.

    Prior to her work at Duke Integrative Medicine, Reardon held an adjunct faculty position at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina, teaching Food for Life: Cooking for Optimal Health. She was also an instructor for the Cancer Project, teaching Nutrition and Cooking for Cancer Prevention and Survival.

    While serving as a clinical research coordinator at Duke, Reardon focused on the role of diet and exercise in managing outcomes for premenopausal breast cancers and prostate cancers. She has also served as the wellness coordinator for the Johns Hopkins Health Plan in Baltimore and the program consultant for the Fitness Research Center at the University of Michigan.

    Reardon received her undergraduate training in nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University and her master's degree in kinesiology from the University of Michigan.

13. Beth Spencer, Caring.com Expert

    Beth Spencer is a social worker in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with more than 25 years of experience with families who have a member with dementia. She is coauthor of Understanding Difficult Behaviors and Moving a Relative with Memory Loss: A Family Caregiver's Guide. She directs Silver Club, early-stage and adult day programs serving individuals with Alzheimer's and related illnesses.

14. Bonita Lynn Beattie, Caring.com Expert

    

    Bonita Lynn Beattie (usually known as Lynn Beattie) is the vice president for injury prevention for the Center for Healthy Aging, part of the National Council on Aging (NCOA). She directs the NCOA's Falls Free Initiative, which is developing and implementing a national action plan to prevent falls and fall-related injuries in older adults.

    Beattie also serves on the task forces and advisory committees of numerous national health promotion initiatives and research projects, working on behalf of older adults to promote fall prevention, osteoporosis awareness, and aging eye health.

    Beattie has her undergraduate degree in health and physical education from East Stroudsburg State University and master's degrees in physical therapy and healthcare administration from Baylor University. In 1998, she completed the master's level gerontology certificate program at the University of Maryland Center on Aging.

15. Bonnie Bajorek Daneker, Caring.com Expert

    

    Bonnie Bajorek Daneker is author and creator of the The Compassionate Caregiver's Series, which includes "The Compassionate Caregiver's Guide to Caring for Someone with Cancer," "The Journey of Grief," "Handbook on Hospice and Palliative Care," and other titles on cancer diagnosis and end of life. She speaks regularly at cancer research and support functions, including PANCAN and Cancer Survivor's Network. She is a former member of the Executive Committee of the CSN at St. Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta and the Georgia Chapter of the Lymphoma Research Foundation.

16. Brooke Benack, Caring.com Expert

17. Bruce A. Feinberg, Caring.com Expert

    Bruce A. Feinberg, MD, chief of the Georgia Cancer Specialists, is an oncologist and the author of Breast Cancer Answers and Colon Cancer Answers and a popular speaker on cancer-related topics.

18. Camille Peri, Caring.com features editor

    Camille Peri, features editor, has covered health and family issues as a journalist for many years. She was a senior editor at Salon.com, where she was cofounder and editor of the department Mothers Who Think. She coedited two collections of essays, Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood , which was a national best seller and received an American Book Award, and Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves . Camille has also written and edited for WebMD, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Ladies' Home Journal, Parenting, San Francisco, and Mother Jones, and has been a book editor for Pearson Education. She has a B.A. in American Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.
    

    Camille lives in San Francisco with her husband and two sons. With her children in their teen years and her parents in their 80s, she often feels that she's dealing with the same issues -- driving, safety, scheduling -- with both generations. Her mother survived a heart attack and cancer in 1999, and Camille and her brothers have spent periods providing their parents with round-the-clock care. She recently helped them move into an independent living retirement community, where they have opened -- and are thoroughly enjoying -- a new phase of their lives.

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20. Carol D. O'Dell, Family Conflicts Expert

21. Carol Jones, Caring.com Expert

    Carol Jones is a family consultant for the Mountain Caregiver Resource Center in Siskiyou County, California.

22. Carol O'Dell, Caring.com Contributing Writer

    

    Carol D. O'Dell is the author of Mothering Mother: A Daughter's Humorous and Heartbreaking Memoir , about her experience caring for her mother through Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and coronary diseases. A creative writing teacher and inspirational speaker, O'Dell is often featured at spiritual retreats and conferences of caregivers and health care and geriatric professionals.

23. Carolyn L. Rosenblatt

    

    Carolyn Rosenblatt is a Registered Nurse and Attorney with 40 years of combined experience in her two professions. As a nurse, she has extensive experience with geriatrics, chronic illness, pain management, dementias, disability, family dynamics, and death and dying. As a trial attorney, she advocated for for the rights of injured individuals and neglected elders.

    Together with her husband, Dr. Mikol Davis, she founded AgingParents.com, a resource for those who are caring for aging loved ones at home or in facilities. She is also the author of The Boomers Guide to Aging Parents, a nine part series offering practical solutions to common legal and health care problems caregivers and adult children of aging loved ones face every day.

24. Carolyn Strimike and Margie Latrella, Caring.com Experts

    

    Carolyn Strimike and Margie Latrella are nurse practitioners specializing in the prevention of heart disease and stroke. They have over 40 years of nursing experience in Cardiology between them. The main goal of their work is to counsel, motivate and empower people to adopt healthy lifestyle choices.

    Margie Latrella RN, MSN, APN-C graduated from Drew University with her BA in Biology, Fairleigh Dickinson University with her BS in Nursing and she received her Master’s in Nursing from Pace University.
    

    Carolyn Strimike RN, MSN, APN-C graduated from Rutgers University where she received both her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and her Master of Science in Nursing.

    They have lectured extensively throughout the United States on topics relating to heart disease. They have offered over 250 community lectures in an attempt to increase awareness about heart disease prevention. They have also presented at the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association conferences to healthcare providers about prevention, early detection and treatment of heart disease. They have had several publications in nursing journals on these topics as well.

    They have both been recognized by the American Heart Association and the Women’s Heart Foundation for their work in the field of women and heart disease.

    Presently, they are working to educate women and men about heart disease, stroke and diabetes plus help people identify their own risk factors for these conditions.

25. Cathie Ramey, Caring.com Expert

26. Clarissa Fells-Smith, Caring.com Expert

27. Cleo Hutton, Caring.com Expert

    

    Cleo Hutton is coauthor of Striking Back at Stroke: A Doctor-Patient Journal (Dana Press) and author of After a Stroke: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier (Demos Medical Publishing). Her campaign to spread the word about stroke and stroke recovery issues has been carried on national radio shows and television broadcasts and featured in several magazines, including Prevention , Cerebrum , and Stroke Smart . In 2006, she received Northland NewsCenter's Women in Leadership Award and the American Heart Association's American Heart and Stroke Heroes Award.
    

    At the age of 43, Cleo had two right-side ischemic strokes that initially rendered her unable to move or speak. After 12 years of what she calls "continuous rehab through everyday living," she's now able to pursue her mission: to promote healing through a positive outlook and provide encouragement for people living with the effects of stroke. At the young age of 50, Cleo graduated with honors from the University of Minnesota. To find out more about Cleo, visit her website, which is listed below. She can be reached by e-mail at CleoHutton@aol.com .

28. Connie Matthiessen, Caring.com senior editor

    

    Constance (Connie) Matthiessen, Senior Editor of the Life channel, has worked as a healthcare and environmental journalist at the Center for Investigative Reporting, and has written for WebMD , Consumer Health Interactive , the Washington Post , the San Francisco Chronicle , BabyCenter.com, San Francisco Magazine, Mother Jones and other publications. Connie's background also includes a B.A. in literature from Evergreen State College and an MFA in writing from Warren Wilson College. She has been interested in eldercare issues since shortly after college, when she spent a year caring for elderly people in a nursing home.
    

    Connie, who lives in San Francisco with her three children, considers herself lucky that her parents are still healthy and active as they approach their 80s. They both continue to pursue their passions, including fishing, horseback riding, travel, and spending time with their children, grandchildren,and great-grandchildren, providing living proof that growing old -- for all its challenges -- can be a time of inspiration, connection, and adventure.

29. Craig Schwimmer, M.D., Caring.com Expert

    Otolaryngologist Craig Schwimmer, M.D., is the medical director of the Snoring Center in Dallas and an expert in minimally invasive procedures to correct snoring, sleep apnea, and other types of sleep-disordered breathing. A head and neck surgeon, Schwimmer specializes in treatment options such as the Pillar procedure, laser tonsillectomy, and minimally invasive surgery of the soft palate.

30. Cynthia Barton, Caring.com Expert

31. Dan Tobin, M.D., Family Caregiving & Dynamics and Home Safety Expert

    

    Dan Tobin is the CEO of Care Support of America, a national service providing telephonic and local nurse counsel to adult children caring for aging parents. Dr. Tobin is the author of books and articles focused on the practical and positive aspects of family caregiving.

32. Daniel Kuhn, Caring.com Expert

33. Darlynn Morgan, Caring.com Expert

34. David Green, Caring.com Expert

    David Green works as a geriatric care manager for the City of Oakland, California. He works closely with elderly clients and their families and caregivers to promote health, safety, and independence as well as to reduce risk. He has more than 20 years' experience working on interdisciplinary teams addressing the medical, psychological, and social needs of older adults.
    

    Since his first graduate internship doing psychotherapy with residents at the Jewish Home for the Aged in San Francisco, he has found an affinity for this work that continues to engage him. He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a master's in clinical psychology from San Francisco State University.

35. David Solie, Caring.com Expert

    

    David Solie is the author of How to Say It to Seniors and a member of the advisory board of Caring.com.

36. Deborah Nagle-Burks, Caring.com Expert

    Deborah Nagle-Burks is the founding director of Oak Tree Bereavement Center, which serves grieving teens and adults in the San Francisco Bay Area. She offers Narrative of Grieving programs and seminars to educate practitioners to support people through grieving the death of a loved one.
    

    Nagle-Burks is the former director of programs for Kara Palo Alto, Americas oldest grief and bereavement organization. Shes the author of A Safe Space: Grief and Loss Curriculum for Grades K-5 and The Narrative of Grieving: A Reporter Sifts Through American Television Network Coverage of the 51 Days at Waco, Texas. Shes also an on-call grief counselor on the National Disaster Team.
    

    As a radio talk show host, she interviews authors on her weekly program, Sundays at Noon (on KUSF-FM San Francisco), who often discuss how the death of a loved one turned them toward writing.

37. Debra L. Braverman, M.D., Caring.com Expert

    

    Debra L. Braverman is a physiatrist and specialist in EECP at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. She is the author of Heal Your Heart with EECP.

38. Denis Clifford, Caring.com Expert

    

    Denis Clifford is a lawyer specializing in estate planning. A graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review, he has practiced law in Berkeley, California, since 1968. He is the author of many books, including:

    • Plan Your Estate
    • Estate Planning Basics
    • Make You Own Ling Trust
    • Nolo’s Simple Will Book
    • The Quick and Legal Will Book

    He has written extensively about estate planning in books and in publications such as the San Francisco Chronicle. He has also taught numerous seminars about estate planning to lay people. His experiences have convinced him that people can understand their own estate planning, and that it's a lawyer's job to facilitate that understanding.

    Clifford worked for Legal Services (lawyers for poor people) in Oakland, California, for six years. He has also been a law professor and has made frequent media appearances to discuss estate planning.
    

39. Dennis Fortier

    Dennis Fortier writes the widely followed Brain Today blog, distilling the daily news about advances in the areas of brain health, memory loss, and Alzheimer’s disease. He is a strong advocate for the benefits of early identification and timely intervention against medical conditions that impair brain function. Mr. Fortier serves as the President and CEO of Medical Care Corporation, a neuro-informatics company that develops assessment technologies to enable physicians to objectively evaluate memory and other cognitive functions in their patients. He earned an MA in Sociology from the University of California, Irvine and an MBA from Cornell University.

40. Donna Quinn Robbins, Caring.com Expert

    

    Donna Quinn Robbins is the CEO of Ultimate Moves and author of Moving Mom and Dad and On the Road of Life, Drive Yourself. For more than 16 years, she has helped more than 4,000 individuals and families move locally and nationally. Robbins is an active public speaker on the topic of senior transition services and elderly lifestyle transitions and has appeared on NBC's Today Show as well as on local television programs in the San Francisco Bay Area.

    Robbins leads workshops and offers guidelines for successful transitions to individuals, families, retirement communities, and corporations through her company, Ultimate Moves. She is currently the designer and move-in coordinator at five major San Francisco Bay Area retirement communities. She has been involved with three start-up communities, helping them move their new residents in while minimizing stress and confusion. As an interior designer, she also helps families create new homes. Donna graduated from Bennett College and is a member of the National Association of Senior Move Managers (NASMM).

41. Dr. Christiane Northrup, at <a href="http://www.vibrantnation.com">VibrantNation.com</a>, Special to Caring.com.

    

    Internationally known for her empowering approach to women's health and wellness, Dr. Christiane Northrup is the author of groundbreaking books such as Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, and The Wisdom of Menopause. Special to Caring.com from VibrantNation.com, an online destination where women 50+ exchange information and join in smart conversation.

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    Ron Kauffman is a Certified Senior Advisor ,host of Successful Aging, a live radio talk show, and an expert on a wide range issues regarding aging and care giving. He is the author of Caring for a Loved One with Alzheimer’s Disease, which is available at his website, www.seniorlifestyles.net. His weekly podcast can also be heard on his website.

43. Duane Lipham, Caring.com Expert

    

    Duane Lipham is a Certified Long-Term Care (CLTC) consultant who writes extensively on long-term care issues and related subjects. Mr. Lipham brings personal passion to the subject of long-term care because he has faced the unique challenges associated with being a caregiver for members of his own family. Along with his professional knowledge of the field, this real-life experience has given Mr. Lipham insight into not only the financial aspects of caregiving, but also the emotional and mental impact that such care can bring.

44. Ed Markin , Caring.com Expert

    

    Ed Markin, BS, MBA, PhD, is the director of research for the Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation and author of more than a dozen books. For the past 15 years, Markin has operated the Funeral Help Program, a clearinghouse for consumer information. He has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows and has been published or quoted in hundreds of magazines and newspapers.

45. Eileen Saffran, Caring.com Expert

    Eileen Saffran is executive director of the Gathering Place, a community-based cancer support center in Cleveland, Ohio.

46. Elaine Ambrose, at <a href="http://www.vibrantnation.com">VibrantNation.com</a>, Special to Caring.com.

    Elaine Ambrose is the co-author of Menopause Sucks: What to Do When Hot Flashes and Hormones Make You and Everyone Else Miserable, a celebrated speaker, and maintains a blog, Midlife Cabernet. She has shared some great tips for making food work for you during menopause.

47. Elizabeth Dugan, Caring.com Expert

    

    Elizabeth Dugan, a Fellow of the Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston, is the author of Driving Dilemma: The Complete Resource Guide for Older Drivers and Their Families.

48. Ernest Rosenbaum, Caring.com Expert

    Ernest Rosenbaum, MD, is an oncologist affiliated with Stanford University and with the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco, where he has developed protocols for supportive care and clinical practices. A specialist in the treatment of breast, prostate, and colon cancer, Rosenbaum is coauthor of three popular books on cancer: (Andrews McMeel Publishing 2002), (Andrews McMeel Publishing 2005), and (Andrews McMeel Publishing 2007). He has a passionate interest in clinical research and developing ways to improve patient care and communication. Rosenbaum is also a clinical professor of medicine, emeritus, at UCSF and a clinical professor, department of medicine, at Stanford University Medical Center.

49. Frances Schadig, Senior Substance Abuse Expert

    Frances Schnadig has a degree in Social Work from Loyola University and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker that specializes in Senior Substance Abuse. She's worked for 10 years with clients with substance abuse issues. Currently, she directs the Healing Connections program (which recently was awarded the Judy Miller Scholarship Award) at PEER Services, Inc. which provides comprehensive early detection, intervention and treatment services for older adults.

50. Gayle Grace, Caring.com Expert

51. Geri R. Hall, Caring.com Expert

    Geri R. Hall is an advanced practice nurse who works in the department of neurology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine and at the Banner Alzheimer Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. She's also a speaker and author who since 1996 has facilitated the online support group for the Washington University, St. Louis, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center's Alzheimer List.

52. Glenn Smith, Caring.com Expert

    Psychology professor Glenn Smith is a clinical neuropsychologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

53. Gloria Nelson, Caring.com Expert

    Gloria Nelson is a senior oncology social worker at the Montefiore-Einstein Medical Center in Bronx, New York.

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55. Helen Lach, Caring.com Expert

    Helen Lach is an advanced practice nurse and assistant professor at St. Louis University School of Nursing.

56. Helen Lhim, Caring.com Expert

    Helen Lhim is director of Rehabilitative Services for the Institute on Aging, Ruth Ann Rosenberg Adult Day Health Center, San Francisco.

57. Helene Bergman, Caring.com Expert

    Helene Bergman, LMSW, is a certified geriatric care manager (C-ASWCM) and owner of Elder Care Alternatives, a professional geriatric care management business in New York City. She consults with nursing homes and daycare programs to develop specialized programs for Alzheimer's patients.

    Bergman speaks frequently on memory and aging, Alzheimer's disease caregiving, and other eldercare topics for assisted-living facilities, nursing homes, and corporations. She has led many caregiver support groups for the Alzheimer's Association and coauthored the book Guiding the Alzheimer's Caregiver: A Handbook for Counselors.
    

    Bergman received her master's degree in social work from Hunter School of Social Work following a career in education. She was previously affiliated with the NYU Aging and Dementia Research Center, where she was a family counselor and research associate. She was on the advisory board of the Brookdale Center on Aging Certificate Program in Professional Care Management and taught the center's seminar on home healthcare.
    

    She served as the president of the Greater New York Chapter of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers from 2000 to 2004. Bergman presently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers (NAPGCM).
    

58. Ingfei Chen, Senior contributing editor

    Ingfei Chen has witnessed the hope and hype and miracles and failings of medical care and scientific research during more than 15 years of covering both areas as a journalist. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she started her career as a general assignment reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle but shifted to the medical beat at Time Inc.'s Hippocrates and Health magazines. As a freelancer, her work has been published in The New York Times , Discover , Reader's Digest , and CR , a magazine for cancer survivors. Chen has a B.S. in biology from Brown University and an M.A. in journalism from Stanford University. She was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004-2005 and has been a lecturer in the graduate science writing program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
    

    Chen's awareness of the challenges of aging was heightened when she worked as a contributing editor in 2002-2004 for Science Magazine's Science of Aging Knowledge Environment, a website about gerontology research. Her own mother and father live in the same New York City neighborhood where she grew up. Now approaching their 80s, they play tennis twice a week and walk to the grocery store or library every day. Chen regularly checks in with them by phone and bugs them to go to the doctor when necessary.

59. James Castle, M.D., Caring.com Expert

    

    James Castle, M.D. is a neurologist at NorthShore University HealthSystem (affiliated with The University of Chicago) and an expert on strokes.

60. James Frank, Caring.com Expert

    James Frank is Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the V.A. Medical Center in San Francisco. He received his medical degree from the University of Colorado School of Medicine and completed residency training in internal medicine and a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. His primary clinical and research interest is critical care medicine, and he spends much of his time caring for elderly patients in the intensive care unit and working with their families.
    

    James's wife, Stephanie Trelogan, is a senior editor at Caring.com. James and Stephanie are glad that their parents are still healthy and active, and their two young children take full advantage of this whenever their grandparents come to visit.

61. Jane Andersen, DPM, Caring.com Expert

    

    Jane Andersen, DPM, is a podiatrist in private practice in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Indiana University at Bloomington. She then attended the California College of Podiatric Medicine in San Francisco, California, followed by a three-year advanced surgical residency at Stanford University Medical Center and DVAMC in Palo Alto, California. She is board certified in foot surgery by the American Board of Podiatric Surgery.

    Dr. Andersen provides care to all types of patients and especially enjoys seeing the geriatric population in her area. As a podiatrist, she uses conservative care and surgery to treat all aspects of foot and ankle pathologies, including foot pain, deformities, injuries, and skin diseases, as well as bone and joint diseases. She also values preventative care, especially in patients with diabetes or vascular disease.

    Dr. Andersen is the past president of the American Association for Women Podiatrists, Inc. She is also a member of the Public Education and Information Committee of the American Podiatric Medical Association. She has been interviewed for and featured in many television shows, radio shows, and magazine and newspapers articles, including USA Today, the New York Times, Oprah Magazine, Better Homes and Gardens, Real Simple, and Working Mother.

62. Jeffrey Knajdl, Caring.com Expert

    Jeffrey Knajdl is director of psycho-oncology services in the Cancer Counseling program at Creighton University in Omaha

63. Jennifer Friedman, Caring.com Expert

    Jennifer Friedman is a trusts and estates attorney and a partner in the law firm of Jorgenson, Siegel, McClure & Flegel in Menlo Park, California.

64. Jennifer Prell, Caring.com Expert

    Jennifer Prell is the CEO of Paxem, Inc.

65. Jennifer Serafin, N.P., Caring.com Expert

    

    Jennifer Serafin is a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner at the Jewish Home in San Francisco, where she provides primary care and management of acute illnesses. Jennifer also leads staff teaching sessions and is a member of many of the facility's committees: Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Infection Control, Policy and Procedure, and Formulary. Her nursing specialties include cardiology, urology, and gynecology. She is the past-president of the local chapter of the National Conference of Gerontologic Nurse Practitioners, a member of the California Association of Nurse Practitioners, and associate clinical professor for the Physiological Nursing Department at University of California, San Francisco.

    Jennifer received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from the University of Maryland, and a Master of Science Degree as a Gerontological Nurse Practitioner, with a minor in teaching, from the University of California San Francisco.

66. Jeremy Payne, M.D., Caring.com Expert

    Jeremy Payne, M.D., is the medical director of Banner Good Samaritan Stroke Center in Phoenix, Arizona.

67. Jessica Krant, Caring.com Expert

    

    Jessica J. Krant, MD, MPH, is a board-certified dermatologist specializing in medical, cosmetic, and surgical dermatology, including Mohs micrographic skin cancer surgery. In addition to her work in private practice, Krant is assistant clinical professor of dermatology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
    

    Krant has authored textbook chapters as well as journal articles for publication, consulted for industry, and presented at medical conferences. Her opinions are quoted in the press and she has been a regular columnist for Consumer's Union ShopSmart magazine as well as a contributor to the OnHealth newsletter.

    After graduating from Harvard College magna cum laude, Krant attended Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she graduated with Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Society Honors, receiving both an MD and a master's degree in public health. Krant completed her medicine internship at Lenox Hill Hospital and her dermatology residency at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. After completing formal American College of Mohs Surgery (ACMS) fellowship training, she is now a member of the ACMS.

    Krant is a fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD), a diplomate of the American Board of Dermatology, and a member of the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery (ASDS).

68. Jina "Bitsy" Lewallen, Caring.com Expert

    Jina "Bitsy" Lewallen is a clinical geriatric social worker with the University of Arkansas for the Medical Sciences Pat & Willard Walker Family Memory Research Center and the UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. She helps her own father care for her mother, who has vascular dementia.

69. Joanne Koenig Coste, Caring.com Expert

    

    Joanne Koenig Coste is a nationally recognized expert on Alzheimer's care and an outspoken advocate for patient and family care. She is the author of Learning to Speak Alzheimer's. Also, she currently is in private practice as an Alzheimer's family therapist. Ms. Koenig Coste also serves as President of Alzheimer Consulting Associates, implementing state-of-the-art Alzheimer care throughout the United States.

70. John C. Morris, Caring.com Expert

    Washington University School of Medicine professor John C. Morris directs the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center in St. Louis.

71. Jonathan Howland, Caring.com Expert

    Jonathan Howland is chair of the Social and Behavioral Science Department at the Boston University School of Public Health.

72. Jonathan Rosenfeld, Caring.com Expert

    

    Jonathan Rosenfeld is a psychotherapist in private practice in San Francisco.

73. Joseph H. Friedman, Caring.com expert

    Joseph H. Friedman, a neurologist at NeuroHealth in Warwick, Rhode Island, wrote Making the Connection between Brain and Behavior: Coping with Parkinson's Disease .

74. Joseph L. Matthews, Caring.com Senior Editor

    

    Joseph L. Matthews has been an attorney in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1971. From 1975 to 1977 he taught at the School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books, including Social Security, Medicare, and Government Pensions; Long-Term Care: How to Plan and Pay for It; How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim; and The Lawyer Who Blew up His Desk. The original coauthor of Joseph's book on Social Security and Medicare was his mother, Dorothy, who had worked at senior centers for 25 years. Joseph then assisted her with her own care during the later years of her life, arranging her legal and financial documents and helping her move to home care and assisted living as her needs changed.

75. Joyce Simard, Caring.com Expert

    

    Joyce Simard is a social worker and geriatric consultant based in Land O' Lakes, Florida, who specializes in dementia care. She serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Western Sydney.

    During her 30 years in the healthcare industry, she has developed quality-of-life programs for people in all stages of dementia, including a memory-enhancement program for people with mild memory loss, and The Club for nursing home residents who are in the moderate stage of a dementing illness.

    Simard’s children's book The Magic Tape Recorder helps children understand and relate to people with Alzheimer's disease.

76. Julie Carter, Caring.com Expert

    Julie Carter is a nurse practitioner and associate director of the Parkinson Center of Oregon at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland.

77. Jytte Lokvig, Caring.com Expert

    

    Since the early 1990s, Jytte Lokvig has worked with the elderly, especially those with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia. She coaches families and professional caregivers and designs life-enrichment programs and activities for care facilities. Her workshops and seminars promote changes in approach and communication to create a healthy environment based on dignity and humor.
    

    In her teaching, writing, and modeling, Lokvig throws a lifeline to the caregiver. Her caregiving models bring about dramatic changes in the mental state and behavior of the Alzheimer's patient. She designs and implements activity programs, drawing on her background in educational psychology and her expertise in the arts, theater, and music.

    In 2002, Lokvig published Alzheimer's A to Z: Secrets to Successful Caregiving, a uniquely effective guide for caregivers. New Harbinger Publications has since published a revised and updated version under the title Alzheimer's A to Z: A Quick-Reference Guide. The book has been translated into Portuguese, Spanish, and Japanese.

    Lokvig holds a PhD in management with a specialty in Alzheimer's care from California Pacific University and a master's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles.

78. K. Gabriel Heiser, Caring.com Expert

    K. Gabriel Heiser, an attorney in Boulder, Colorado, has specialized in estate planning, elder law, and Medicaid planning for 25 years. His new book, How to Protect Your Family's Assets From Devastating Nursing Home Costs: Medicaid Secrets is about Medicaid planning.

79. Karen Earle, M.D., Caring.com Expert

    

    Karen Earle is chief of endocrinology and medical director of Diabetes Services at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. She runs an adult diabetes clinic, working with certified diabetes educators, dietitians, and medical residents to help people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes manage often-complex conditions. A graduate of Yale University Medical School, she also sees patients privately, is active in diabetes advocacy and research, and currently serves as the president of the American Diabetes Association San Francisco Advisory Board.

80. Karen Miles, Caring.com senior contributing editor

    Karen Miles is a regular contributor to numerous national magazines, including Woman's Day , Reader's Digest , Family Life , Family Circle , and Better Homes & Gardens , as well as to the award-winning website BabyCenter.com. She is the author of The Power of Loving Discipline , published by Penguin and Psychology Today . Karen holds a joint B.A. in English and anthropology from the University of Iowa.
    

    Karen and her husband, who live in Iowa, have raised four children who are now young adults. Karen offers tangible help to her mother (at a distance) and in-laws (nearby). She says that for her, a perfect moment is when she can help not only with facilitating daily tasks but also with enrichment, for example by taking a parent shopping or to a concert, by finding a perfect book on tape, or by introducing a new friend.

81. Karrie Scully-Johnston, Caring.com Expert

    Karrie Scully-Johnston is a San Diego-based communication supervisor with American Medical Response (AMR), a national ambulance company, as well as the caregiver for her mom.

82. Kate Rauch, Caring.com senior editor

    

    Catherine Anne Rauch, Senior Editor of the Daily Care channel, has spent more than two decades writing about health for websites and print media, including WebMD, Drugstore.com, the Washington Post Health Section, and Newsday as well as HMOs such as Kaiser Permanente (in the San Francisco Bay Area) and Group Health (in Seattle). Catherine holds an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and a B.S. in cultural geography from the University of California at Berkeley. Catherine's degree in geography led her to spend five years working as an archaeologist and anthropologist in Alaska. One of her main activities there was collecting oral histories from Eskimo elders, and she was very moved by the reverence Eskimos have for older people -- the keepers of essential wisdom and skills.
    

    Catherine lives in Albany, California with her two children. She is the only sibling of three to live near her 80-something father, enjoying the still developing richness of their relationship as they both get older. Very much a member of the "sandwich generation," she often finds herself driving her son to Little League games one moment, and touching base with her dad about his new pacemaker the next.

83. Kay Paggi, Caring.com Expert

    

    As a licensed professional counselor, certified gerontological counselor and certified geriatric care manager, Kay Paggi has provided empathetic and experienced assistance to older adults and their families for nearly twenty years. A professional geriatric care manager in private practice, Paggi has also facilitated support groups and educational seminars for adults providing care for their aging parents. She is the originator of a brain-stimulating group activity for older adults called "Mental Aerobics" that has been studied by researchers at the University of North Texas on three occasions. Paggi has been an adviser for Trinity Learning Center productions, which creates educational videos for staff of long-term care facilities, and she has served on the advisory board for the Emeritus Program at Richland College since 1993. She has a master's degree in counseling from the University of North Texas.

84. Kelly Lyons, Caring.com Expert

    Kelly E. Lyons is a research associate professor of neurology at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, and a member of the panel that authored the American Academy of Neurology's 2006 guidelines for treating advanced Parkinson's disease.

85. Ken Robbins, M.D., Caring.com Expert

    

    Kenneth Robbins, M.D. is board certified in psychiatry and internal medicine, and has a master's in public health from the University of Michigan. He is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has had a wide variety of clinical positions, including those which require an understanding of the interface between psychiatry and other medical specialties. His current clinical practice focuses primarily on geriatrics. He also provides forensic consultation, and has extensive experience in working for defense attorneys, judges and prosecutors in criminal matters; and on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants in civil matters. He is active in both the American and Wisconsin Psychiatric Associations. He has written and contributed to many articles and is frequently invited to speak on psychiatric topics, such as psychiatry and the law; depression; anxiety; dementia; and suicide risk and prevention.

86. Kim Dayton, Caring.com Expert

    Kim Dayton is a professor of law at William Mitchell College of Law and founder of the National Elder Law Network

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88. Ladislav Volicer, M.D., Ph.D., Caring.com Expert

    

    Ladislav Volicer, M.D., Ph.D., is a courtesy full professor at the School of Aging Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa, and visiting professor at the Third Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Twenty-five years ago, he established one of the first dementia special care units and introduced the concept of structured palliative care for patients with advanced dementia. He is recognized as an international expert on advanced dementia care and was recently an invited speaker in Southeast Asia and Australia. He has published more than 200 articles and chapters and edited four books on the clinical management of dementia.

89. Laura Beltramo, Caring.com Expert

    

    Laura Beltramo, a physical therapist who specializes in geriatrics, graduated with honors from the University of California at San Francisco in 2000. She earned her undergraduate degree in comparative literature from the University of California, Davis, graduating Phi Beta Kappa.) She loves her job working as the sole physical therapist at a premier life-care facility in San Francisco. Beginning her career in pediatrics, Laura soon found her niche working with seniors and has experience in all levels of care, from hospital to home care. She has written articles and lectured extensively on fall prevention and other issues relevant to the aging experience. As a registered yoga teacher, she teaches yoga, meditation, and other mindfulness techniques to seniors -- helping them expand their repertoire for coping with stress, pain, and illness in the later years.

    She lives in San Francisco with her husband and they enjoy spending time with their families, cooking, making jam, speaking Italian, and spending time in the mountains. Laura was very close to both of her grandmothers and feels that their love and support continue to inspire her to care for her patients as if they were members of her own family.

90. Laura Juel, Caring.com Expert

    

    Laura Juel is an Occupational Therapist at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, and an Adjunct Lecturer in the Graduate Occupational Science program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a Certified Driver Rehabilitation Specialist in the Duke Driving Program with a clinical interest in evaluating the older driver and community mobility. She has 18 years of experience working with adults with neurological illness and injuries.

    She earned her B.S. in Rehabilitation Science from Springfield College and a M.S. in Occupational Therapy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Laura lives with her husband and 3 children in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Laura is actively working with family members as they navigate through the health care system with new diagnoses of cancer and dementia. She is experiencing first hand her own emotional stress as well as the challenges of communicating with family and caregivers while providing support from a distance.

91. Laurie Orlov, Caring.com Expert

    

    Laurie Orlov analyzes research and trends in the aging in place technology market, which includes technologies that help boomers and seniors remain in their home of choice. Laurie has thirty-four years in the technology and market research industry, including nine years as an analyst and research director at Forrester Research. She is certified as a Florida long-term care ombudsman, certified in geriatric care management from the University of Florida, and the author of When Your Parents Need Elder Care [amazon.com].

92. Laurie Udesky, Caring.com senior editor

    Laurie Udesky , Senior Editor of the General Health channel, has covered health and medical issues for National Public Radio (NPR); produced features for "Crossroads," a cross-cultural program that aired on NPR; and served as a reporter or editor for medical trade journals such as TB Monitor and AIDS Alert. She wrote a chapter on drug interactions for The Self-Care Advisor , a Time Inc. health publication, and has written regularly on health and mental health issues affecting older people for Consumer Health Interactive , where she is a contributing editor. As a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Laurie covered health, social welfare, and political issues for the Dallas Morning News , the St Petersburg Times , Salon.com, Macleans magazine , NPR, and Consumer Health Interactive . She has been recognized with an Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism, a California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship, an Exceptional Merit Media Ward (EMMA) from Radcliffe College, and other top awards in magazine writing. Laurie's B.A. is in English with honors from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

    In the 1980s Laurie served on the board of an intergenerational organization. The experience of working with older people in the community helped shape her views and interest in reporting on issues affecting older people. She also was very close to her grandmother, who lived to be 95.

93. Leslie Gordon , Caring.com senior contributing editor

    Leslie Gordon's legal and business journalism career has included providing news service content for Productopia ; covering law firms and business issues for a statewide legal affairs newspaper, the Daily Journal ; and writing for law firms, financial services companies, and other professional service firms. Her work has won a Reader's Digest Foundation Excellence in Journalism award. Leslie has been an adjunct professor at U.C. Berkeley's Hastings College of the Law and was an associate attorney after receiving her J.D. from Loyola Law School, where she was also an editor and writer for the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. She also holds a master's degree in journalism from Stanford University and a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley.

    Leslie lives in San Francisco with her husband, their two small children, a cat, and an animal-assisted therapy dog who visits seniors frequently. Leslie recalls a time with her family and her very frail father in a burger joint—he couldn't remember his granddaughter's name, but he plucked a flower from a vase and handed it to her as a gesture of affection. He died a month later. Leslie notes that her husband has set a strong example for their kids by caring for his parents. Their son has said, "Dad, when you're old, I'll come visit you, too."

94. Leslie Kane, Caring.com Expert

    Leslie Kane is a clinical instructor in occupational therapy at Columbia University and is the manager of occupational therapy for New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. She specializes in rehabilitating people who have had strokes, traumatic brain injuries, and spinal cord injuries.

95. Leslie Kernisan, M.D., Caring.com Senior Medical Editor

    

    Leslie Kernisan, M.D. is a geriatrician at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the San Francisco VA Medical Center. She trained in internal medicine and geriatrics at UCSF and is a graduate of Princeton University and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Shes also a member of the American Geriatrics Society
    

    Dr. Kernisan sees patients at the Veterans' Administration Hospital in San Francisco, where her area of research and clinical interest includes improving the quality of care for frail elderly patients, especially in the outpatient setting.

96. Linda Ackerman, R.N., Caring.com Expert

    

    Linda Ackerman, R.N., has clinical experience focused in oncology, women's health, and medical nursing. She has been practicing for more than 20 years and is a licensed RN in both Florida and Wisconsin. In addition, she serves as a board member of Breast Cancer Recovery and the Wisconsin Cancer Council.

    Ackerman currently works full-time for a nonprofit insurance company. She manages a staff of seven medical professionals who consult by telephone with clients to help them acquire the most accurate information about standard treatment options.

    She and her staff educate clients about their diagnoses and help clarify interpretations of medical services and tests provided by their physicians and other health care providers. She and her staff support these people throughout treatment.

    Ackerman is committed to enhancing patient advocacy both in her professional role and as a community volunteer, helping elders and others get the information they need to make informed decisions regarding their health.

97. Lisa Balestreri, Caring.com Expert

    Lisa Balestreri is a registered nurse and the owner of Complete Nursing Solutions, a health agency in El Sobrante, California.

98. Lisa Gwyther, Caring.com Expert

    

    Lisa P. Gwyther, author of The Alzheimer's Action Plan, is a social worker with 38 years of experience in providing services to the aging and those with Alzheimer's. For 23 years, she's been the education director of the Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. She is also an associate professor in the Duke University Medical Center Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and is the immediate past president of the Gerontological Society of America.

99. Lisa Snyder, Caring.com Expert

    Lisa Snyder is a social worker at the University of California, San Diego, Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer's Disease Research Center

100. Lisa Trottier, Caring.com senior contributing editor

     Lisa Trottier, Senior Editor of the Housing channel, is a journalist whose rich background includes writing or editing on topics such as family issues, lifestyles, travel, food, and health for San Francisco magazine, Via magazine, and other publications. She has also held editorial positions as Managing Editor of San Francisco magazines, Deputy Editor of BabyCenter magazine, and at Sunset and Diablo magazine. Lisa's B.A. is from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.

     Lisa lives in Kensington, California, with her husband and two children, who are fond of dragging around the same panda bear and mouse that Lisa's grandmother knit for her when she was a baby. Lisa is one of six kids and notes that they all adore their 66-year-old mother, who recently found true love and married a man who is well over 80 and hikes every day.

101. Liz Barlowe, Florida.

     Liz Barlowe is a geriatric care manager in Clearwater, Florida.

102. Liza Hanks, Caring.com Expert

     

     Liza Hanks is the founder and owner of FamilyWorks Estate Planning, a law firm with offices in Campbell and Los Altos, California, that specializes in creating affordable estate plans for families of all ages.
     

     She's also the author of The Busy Family's Guide to Estate Planning (Nolo, 2007) and taught estate planning and taxation at Santa Clara University Law School from 2003 to 2006. She's a 1996 graduate of Stanford Law School, a former magazine editor, and the mother of two children, ages 12 and 6. In 2001, she left a large Silicon Valley law firm to start a practice that makes a positive difference to children and families.

103. Lylas Mogk, M.D., Caring.com Expert

     

     Lylas Mogk is an ophthalmologist and director of the Henry Ford Visual Rehabilitation and Research Center in Grosse Pointe and Livonia, Michigan, and the author of Macular Degeneration: The Complete Guide to Saving and Maximizing Your Sight.

104. Mard Naman , Caring.com senior contributing editor

     Mard Naman has written extensively on health, housing, and real estate issues for San Francisco magazine, Diablo magazine, the Institutional Real Estate Letter , and other publications. His work has won the Best Feature award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors, and his book Insider's Guide to Success: Buying a Franchise was published by the Better Business Bureau. Mard has also been Managing Editor for Publish magazine and a Senior Editor for New West magazine. He is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley.
     

     Mard grew up in Santa Cruz, California, and happily resides there today as a single dad with his son Tyler, a high school senior. Mard lives less than a mile from his mother, who's in her 80s and, according to Mard, "could probably beat you in arm wrestling."

105. Margaret Calkins, Caring.com Expert

     Margaret Calkins is president of IDEAS, a research organization specializing in residential designs for an aging society.

106. Maria Basso Lipani

     

     Maria Basso Lipani is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in both New York and California and a graduate of Columbia University where she received a Master's Degree in Social Work in 2000 with a special focus on Aging. Having worked with chronically ill older adults and their family members for several years in an outpatient medical setting, Maria now resides in New York where she manages a federally funded program for family caregivers. Additionally, she answers questions about geriatric care management on a website devoted to the topic and also offers consultations to family caregivers through her private practice.

107. Maria Caserta, Caring.com Expert

     Maria Caserta is a geriatric psychiatrist with a doctorate in neurobiology. She's the associate director of the Memory Center at the University of Chicago, where she is also an associate professor of psychiatry.

108. Maria M. Meyer and Paula Derr, Contributing Writers

109. Maria M. Meyer and Paula Derr, with Mary Gilmartin, Contributing writers

     Maria M. Meyer has been a longtime advocate of social causes, beginning with her work as cofounder of the Society for Abused Children of the Children's Home Society of Florida and founding executive director of the Children's Foundation of Greater Miami. When her father-in-law suffered a stroke in 1993, Meyer became aware of the need for better information about how to care for an aging parent, a responsibility shared by millions of Americans. That experience led her to found CareTrust Publications and to coauthor the award-winning guide The Comfort of Home: An Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide for Caregivers , now in its third edition. This book earned the Benjamin Franklin Award in the health category. Meyer is a keynote speaker and workshop leader on caregiver topics to healthcare professionals and community groups, as well as a Caregiver Community Action Network volunteer for the National Family Caregiver Association.

     Paula Derr has been employed by the Sisters of Providence Health System for more than 25 years. She has broad experience in many different clinical settings and for many years served as clinical educator for three emergency departments in the Portland metropolitan area. She was a founder of inforMed, which publishes emergency medical services field guides for emergency medical technicians, paramedics, firefighters, physicians, and nurses, and has coauthored numerous healthcare articles. For Derr, home care is a family tradition of long standing. For many years, she cared for her mother and grandmother in her home while raising two daughters and maintaining her career in nursing and healthcare management. Paula is active in several prominent professional organizations and has held both local and national board positions. Paula is a native Oregonian and lives with her husband in Portland.

     Mary Gilmartin is a nurse specialist and coordinator of the COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) Clinical Research Network at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, Colorado. National Jewish Medical Center has been rated first in the nation for treatment of lung disease by U.S. News & World Report . For more than 30 years, Gilmartin has worked with people who have severe lung disease. Her focus has been to educate both patients and their families about lung disease to help them have more control over the illness.

110. Maria M. Meyer, Mary S. Mittelman, Cynthia Epstein, and Paula Derr, Contributing writers

     Maria M. Meyer has been a longtime advocate of social causes, beginning with her work as cofounder of the Society for Abused Children of the Children's Home Society of Florida and founding executive director of the Children's Foundation of Greater Miami. When her father-in-law suffered a stroke in 1993, Meyer became aware of the need for better information about how to care for an aging parent, a responsibility shared by millions of Americans. That experience led her to found CareTrust Publications and to coauthor the award-winning guide The Comfort of Home: An Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide for Caregivers , now in its third edition. This book earned the Benjamin Franklin Award in the health category. Meyer is a keynote speaker and workshop leader on caregiver topics to healthcare professionals and community groups, as well as a Caregiver Community Action Network volunteer for the National Family Caregiver Association.
     

     Mary S. Mittelman is an epidemiologist who has been evaluating psychosocial interventions for family members of people with Alzheimer's disease for the past two decades. She is director of the Psychosocial Research and Support Program at the Silberstein Institute, a research professor in the department of psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, and leader of the Education and Psychosocial Cores of the NYU Alzheimer's Disease Center. She is principal investigator of the NYU-Spouse Caregiver Intervention study, funded by the NIH since 1987, as well as other studies of psychosocial interventions for people with cognitive impairment and/or dementia, and their family members. In the past few years, Mittelman has made a commitment to disseminate research findings to both healthcare providers and the community at large and to collaborate with researchers and community organizations to implement and test psychosocial interventions.
     

     Cynthia Epstein , a social worker and clinical investigator, is a graduate of the Hunter/Mt. Sinai Geriatric Education Center and the Brookdale post-master's program on aging. For more than ten years, she has counseled family caregivers and people with Alzheimer's disease who seek cognitive evaluations and participate in psychosocial interventions at the NYU Aging and Dementia Research Center. In addition to providing clinical supervision to social work students, many of whom are now Alzheimer's care providers themselves, Epstein offers workshops for professional and family caregivers under the auspices of the New York City Alzheimer's Association. In her private psychotherapy practice, she works with people coping with Alzheimer's-related issues as well as a range of other emotional concerns.

111. Maria M. Meyer, Paula Derr, and Jon Caswell , Contributing Writers

     Maria M. Meyer has been a longtime advocate of social causes, beginning with her work as cofounder of the Society for Abused Children of the Children's Home Society of Florida and founding executive director of the Children's Foundation of Greater Miami. When her father-in-law suffered a stroke in 1993, Meyer became aware of the need for better information about how to care for an aging parent, a responsibility shared by millions of Americans. That experience led her to found CareTrust Publications and to coauthor the award-winning guide The Comfort of Home: An Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide for Caregivers , now in its third edition. This book earned the Benjamin Franklin Award in the health category. Meyer is a keynote speaker and workshop leader on caregiver topics to healthcare professionals and community groups, as well as a Caregiver Community Action Network volunteer for the National Family Caregiver Association.
     

     Paula Derr has been employed by the Sisters of Providence Health System for more than 25 years. She has broad experience in many different clinical settings and for many years served as clinical educator for three emergency departments in the Portland metropolitan area. She was a founder of inforMed, which publishes emergency medical services field guides for emergency medical technicians, paramedics, firefighters, physicians, and nurses, and has coauthored numerous healthcare articles. For Derr, home care is a family tradition of long standing. For many years, she cared for her mother and grandmother in her home while raising two daughters and maintaining her career in nursing and healthcare management. Her personal and professional experience adds depth to many chapters of this book. Derr is active in several prominent professional organizations -- including the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA), the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN), and the National Flight Nurses Association (NFNA) -- and holds both local and national board positions. Paula is a native Oregonian and lives with her husband in Portland.
     

     Jon Caswell has been lead editor and staff writer of Stroke Connection Magazine, published by the American Stroke Association, for more than ten years. During that time he has written about many of the emotional travails and triumphs of stroke survivors and their caregivers. Over the years he has covered most of the scientific developments that are improving the lives of stroke families. In addition to his career as a writer, Caswell was an instructor in the Wellness Department of Southern Methodist University for 15 years. He teaches Finding Time Sitting Still, a meditation class, with Linda, his wife of 25 years. They live in Dallas, Texas.

112. Maria M. Meyer, Paula Derr, and Susan Imke , Contributing writers

     Maria M. Meyer has been a longtime advocate of social causes, beginning with her work as cofounder of the Society for Abused Children of the Children's Home Society of Florida and founding executive director of the Children's Foundation of Greater Miami. When her father-in-law suffered a stroke in 1993, Meyer became aware of the need for better information about how to care for an aging parent, a responsibility shared by millions of Americans. That experience led her to found CareTrust Publications and to coauthor the award-winning guide The Comfort of Home: An Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide for Caregivers , now in its third edition. This book earned the Benjamin Franklin Award in the health category. Meyer is a keynote speaker and workshop leader on caregiver topics to healthcare professionals and community groups, as well as a Caregiver Community Action Network volunteer for the National Family Caregiver Association.

     Paula Derr has been employed by the Sisters of Providence Health System for more than 25 years. She has broad experience in many different clinical settings and for many years served as clinical educator for three emergency departments in the Portland metropolitan area. She was a founder of inforMed, which publishes emergency medical services field guides for emergency medical technicians, paramedics, firefighters, physicians, and nurses, and has coauthored numerous healthcare articles. For Derr, home care is a family tradition of long standing. For many years, she cared for her mother and grandmother in her home while raising two daughters and maintaining her career in nursing and healthcare management. Her personal and professional experience adds depth to many chapters of this book. Derr is active in several prominent professional organizations -- including the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA), the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN), and the National Flight Nurses Association (NFNA) -- and holds both local and national board positions. Paula is a native Oregonian and lives with her husband in Portland.

     Susan Imke is a certified gerontological nurse practitioner with more than 20 years of experience working with patients who have Parkinson's disease, as well as with family caregivers. Originally certified as a family nurse practitioner, her focus shifted to elder care in the 1980s when she was appointed associate director of the Texas Tech Alzheimer Center in Lubbock. She later recruited to practice with a leading movement-disorder specialist, Abraham Lieberman, at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix. Imke is the CEO of Senior Health Solutions, a geriatric consulting practice, helping families living with chronic illnesses to navigate a complex healthcare system and maximize the functional abilities of the individual with neurological impairment. Imke serves on the Center of Excellence review board for the National Parkinson Foundation and on the board of directors for the Parkinson Alliance in Princeton, New Jersey. She lives with her husband in Fort Worth, Texas, and is the down-the-street caregiver for her 90-year-old father, who is recently widowed and has Parkinson's disease.

113. Martha Clark Scala, Caring.com Expert

     

     Martha Clark Scala has been a psychotherapist in private practice since 1992, with offices in both Palo Alto and San Francisco, California. In addition to working with individuals and couples, she delivers workshops and regularly writes on topics including grief and loss, the necessity of self-care, and the challenges of substance abuse.
     

     Her nonfiction and poetry can be found in We Need Not Walk Alone: After the Death of a Child (The Compassionate Friends), Porter Gulch Review 2008 , and at her website. Scala also appears in The California Therapist, SCV-CAMFT News, and she publishes an e-newsletter, "Out on a Limb," which is available to subscribers through her website.
     

     She has also mentored many professionals in both her writing and helping careers, launching the Mentoring Program for the San Francisco-Peninsula Branch of the California Writers Club in 2004.

114. Mary Koffend, Caring.com Expert

     

     Mary Koffend is the president of Accountable Aging Care Management (AACM). AACM is an eldercare consulting and care management firm that works with elder clients and their families to find the best care providers and services to meet their needs. AACM provides an objective, third-party perspective on the best options for the elder and a single point of contact for the care providers, elder, and family.

     Before starting AACM, Koffend served with the Social Security Administration (SSA) throughout Texas for more than 30 years and was ultimately responsible for Houston's largest and most complex SSA client service operation.

     Koffend has also managed Medicaid provider services programs for the State of Texas. As a care manager for Accountable Aging, Koffend has become an invaluable resource for families who need a guidance counselor along the aging journey.

115. Mary Whooley, Caring.com Expert

     A physician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, Dr. Mary Whooley is the principal investigator of the "Heart and Soul" Study, a three-year study of the connection between depression and cardiac outcomes.

116. Megan Webster, Caring.com Expert

     Megan Webster is communications director of the Assisted Living Federation of America in Alexandria, Virginia.

117. Melanie Haiken, Caring.com senior editor

     

     Senior Editor Melanie Haiken, who is responsible for Caring.com's coverage of cancer, general health, and family finance, discovered how important it is to provide accurate, targeted, usable health information to people facing difficult decisions when she was health editor of Parenting magazine. She has written about health and family-related issues for magazines such as Health , Real Simple , Woman's Day , Yoga Journal , and websites such as BabyCenter.com, WebMD, and the Blue Cross/Blue Shield websites (aHealthyMe.com, aHealthyAdvantage.com) managed by Consumer Health Interactive. Melanie has held positions as Executive Editor at the Industry Standard and BabyCenter.com , and Managing Editor at San Francisco magazine. She has also worked for San Francisco's renowned Center for Investigative Reporting. She has a master's degree in Journalism and a B.A. in English, both from the University of California at Berkeley.
     

     Melanie cared for her father while he battled esophageal cancer, which ended his life much too soon. She currently cares for her mother, who has multiple health problems including low vision. Melanie is a single mother of two daughters, so she understands the complicated pressures on the so-called "sandwich generation."

118. Mellanie True Hills, at <a href="http://www.vibrantnation.com">VibrantNation.com</a>, special to Caring.com

     Mellanie True Hills is a women's health expert who speaks and coaches individuals and organizations in creating healthy productivity. She is the author of A Woman's Guide to Saving Her Own Life: The HEART Program for Health and Longevity and the CEO of the American Foundation for Women's Health and the Atrial Fibrillation Patient Resource, StopAfib.org. Find out more on her website and on StopAfib.org.

119. Merrily Orsini, Caring.com Expert

     

     Merrily Orsini was a pioneer in the business of providing geriatric care and managed in-home care. She currently serves on the advisory board of the Private Duty Homecare Association, an arm of the National Association of Home Care and Hospice. She has a master's degree in social work and is a nationally known writer and speaker on aging, elder issues, and in-home care. She served on the board of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers, chaired two national conferences presented in conjunction with the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, was a delegate to the National Institute on Aging, and cofounded and co-owned a company that provided in-home care to frail elders from 1981 to 1998.

     While working in in-home care, Orsini recognized a need for special training for those who provided care at home, so she created a state-licensed, certified elder-caregiver program. She also developed a training system to help caregivers better learn how to work with clients with Alzheimer's disease or related dementias. Her agency provided a unique model of care that used geriatric care management in conjunction with in-home care to allow frail elders to remain at home as long as they desired to do so.

120. Michele Francis, Caring.com Expert

     Michele Francis is a clinical social worker at the University of California, San Francisco, Comprehensive Cancer Center.

121. Mikol Davis, Caring.com Expert

     

     Mikol Davis has worked in community hospitals with geriatric patients suffering from dementia, depression, and other psychiatric problems. He received his doctorate in Psychology from the University of San Francisco in 1980. Davis has provided psychological counseling for people in crisis, suicide attempts, drug dependency, and emotional problems due to failing health. He has assisted many individuals to resolve conflicts with other members of their families.

     Davis has been in private practice in Marin County, California since 1976. Through developing close relationships with medical specialists, support groups and services, Davis has assisted many families with important community resources for elders. He is a skilled mediator, often working with families to develop written plans to reduce conflict.

     Since founding HelpWithElders.com and AgingParents.com with his wife, Carolyn Rosenblatt, Davis has offered important emotional support and resources for family members caring for aging parents. He provides one-on-one emotional support for the primary caregivers of elders, teaches coping skills, and helps the caregiver avoid burnout and overload.

122. Mitchell Gaynor, Caring.com Expert

     Mitchell Gaynor, MD, is a board-certified medical oncologist, internist, and hematologist whose practice, Gaynor Integrative Oncology, incorporates traditional cancer treatment with alternative therapies such as acupuncture, meditation, music therapy, nutritional therapy, yoga, and qi-gong. A clinical professor of medicine at the Weill-Medical College of Cornell University, Dr. Gaynor was formerly director of medical oncology at the Weill-Cornell Center for Integrative Medicine. He is the author of three books, including (Kensington Health 1999).

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124. Moira Fordyce, Caring.com Expert

     Moira Fordyce is a geriatrician, an adjunct clinical professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, a founding member of the California Geriatrics Society, a representative to the American Geriatrics Society Council of State Representatives, and a board member of the American Society on Aging.

125. Nan Hayes, Caring.com Expert

     

     Nan Hayes began her work with the older generation at the age of 15. In 2002, after 20 years of corporate work experience, Nan founded RightSized Living, a senior relocation company which assists senior clients and their families as they transition from one home setting to the next. Since 2004, Hayes has worked to establish standards for the Senior Transition Industry through the Senior Transition Society and the Certified Relocation Specialist credential program. Hayes helps older adults find information and qualified resources for relocation through the consumer website at MoveSeniors.com.

126. Nancy Peterson, Caring.com Expert

     Nancy Peterson is an issues specialist for the Humane Society of the United States in Washington, D.C.

127. Nell Bernstein, Caring.com senior editor

     

     Nell Bernstein's writings have appeared on Salon.com and in Glamour , Health , Legal Affairs , Marie Claire , Mother Jones , Newsday , O: The Oprah Magazine , Self , Redbook , and the Washington Post . Nell often writes on family issues and the legal system. Her award-winning book All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated was selected as a Pick of the Week by Newsweek , a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle, and a top-ten Book of the Year by the Online Review of Books. Nell graduated magna cum laude with a degree in comparative literature from Yale University and began her career in journalism by helping her freelancer mom edit stories at the kitchen table.
     

     Nell now lives in Albany, California, with her husband, artist Timothy B. Buckwalter, and their young twins. The twins enjoy playing poker for M & M's with their grandfather, and they plan to let him win a hand on his upcoming 88th birthday.

128. Nell Casey, Contributing Writer

     Nell Casey is the editor of the national best seller Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression and, more recently, An Uncertain Inheritance: Writers on Caring for Family. She has written for such publications as the New York Times , Slate , Salon , and Elle . She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and son.

129. Nerissa Ko, Caring.com Expert

     Nerissa Ko is an assistant professor of neurology and an assistant director of the Neurovascular Service at the University of California in San Francisco. She specializes in the care of patients with strokes and vascular diseases of the brain.

130. Pamela Marshall, Washington.

     Pamela Marshall is a geriatric care manager in Tacoma, Washington.

131. Pat O'Dea-Evans, Caring.com Expert

     Pat O'Dea-Evans, MS, RN, LCPC, COO and Geriatric Care Manager for Paxem, Inc., a senior relocation and move management company in Chicago, Illinois. She serves on the Older Adult Services Advisory Committee for the Illinois Department of Aging, Public Health and Healthcare and Family Services. Her previous experience includes Director of Therapeutic Recreation for hospital settings as well as Geriatric Program Director positions. She is a member of the Geriatric Care Manager Association and the Case Management Society of America. Pat is on the faculty of the American Society on Aging conference in Washington, D.C., 2008. Pat has a Masters Degree in Therapeutic Recreation and is licensed as a Registered Nurse and Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois. She can be reached at Pat@paxem.com.

132. Patricia L. McGinnis, Caring.com Expert

     Patricia L. McGinnis is the executive director of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform.

133. Paula Spencer, Caring.com senior editor

     

     Paula Spencer, Senior Editor of the Alzheimer's/Dementia channel, has specialized in writing about family care and health from her very first post-college job as an editor of 50 Plus magazine through her most recent post as a columnist for Woman's Day . She's the author or collaborating author of a dozen books, including Momfidence, and her articles have appeared in Newsweek , Health , Parenting , USA Weekend , and other magazines and websites. She has received writing awards from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the Arthritis Foundation.

     Paula earned her B.A. in journalism and American studies at the University of Iowa. She now lives with her husband and their four children in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she's also on the advisory board of the Medical Journalism Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
     

     In 2007 alone, Paula dealt with the unexpected cancer death of her 81-year-old mother, who had also broken her pelvis months earlier, and with moving her father, who is 86 and has early dementia, from the home he'd lived in for more than 40 years.

134. Peter Notarstefano , Caring.com Expert

     Peter Notarstefano is the director of Home and Community-Based Services for the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, an umbrella organization of nonprofit nursing homes and adult day care centers.

135. Philip Feldman, Caring.com Expert

     Philip Feldman is a partner in charge of the trusts and estates practice at Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass in San Francisco.

136. Phyddy Tacchi, Caring.com Expert

     Phyddy Tacchi is a psychiatric advanced practice nurse at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

137. Randy Thomas, Caring.com Expert

     Randy Thomas is president of the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse.

138. Rebekah Chapman, Caring.com Expert

     

     Rebekah Peoples Chapman, CFSP, CPC, is a licensed funeral director and embalmer at a funeral home in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She has extensive experience in all phases of funeral service, including funeral arrangements, embalming, burial, and cremation.
     

     Chapman is passionate about serving others and believes that giving clients honest, accurate information empowers them to create tributes and services that are meaningful and appropriate.

     A graduate of Simmons Institute of Mortuary Science in Syracuse, New York, Chapman has worked at some of the best-known service-oriented funeral homes in the country. She has earned the Certified Funeral Service Practitioner and Certified Preplanning Consultant designations. She has also published articles in Southern Funeral Director, The Director, and Hospice Newsletter, and she delivers presentations for national and regional associations of funeral directors.

     Chapman's tips about planning funerals and appreciating life can be found at www.funeralsandlife.com. She also serves as a consultant, offering timely information one-on-one to those who need personal assistance.

139. Redwing Keyssar, Caring.com Expert

     Redwing Keyssar coordinates the Palliative Care Program for Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco.

140. Robert L. Kane, Caring.com Expert

     Robert L. Kane, physician and Minnesota Chair in Long Term Care and Aging at the Minnesota University School of Public Health

141. Sarah Henry, Caring.com senior editor

     

     Sarah Henry has covered health stories for most of her more than two decades as a writer, from her ten-year stint at the award-winning Center for Investigative Reporting, to her staff writer position with Hippocrates magazine, to her most recent web work for online sites including WebMD, Babycenter.com, and Consumer Health Interactive. Sarah has collaborated on several books, including the popular Dr. Koop's Self-Care Advisor, and her health articles have appeared in a wide range of publications including Modern Maturity , Health , Parenting , Glamour , the Washington Post , and Los Angeles Times Magazine . She holds a B.A. in communications from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, where she majored in journalism.
     

     Sarah understands the tyranny of distance faced by many adult children caring for their aging parents. Her mother and father are both in their 70s and dealing with health challenges. Although Sarah returns to her hometown regularly, she's grateful that her five siblings -- who include a doctor and a nurse -- live near her parents. Sarah herself lives in Berkeley, California, with her nine-year-old son, whom she hopes will look after her in her old age.

142. Shalom Kalnicki, Caring.com Expert

     Oncologist Shalom Kalnicki is chairman of radiation oncology at Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. A specialist in IMRT (intensity modulated radiation therapy), Dr. Kalnicki's recent research shows that new advancements in IMRT are proving far superior to standard radiation procedures in safeguarding the healthy tissues surrounding cancerous tumors, and thus improving patient care.

143. Stephanie Miles, Caring.com senior editor

     

     Stephanie Miles, Senior Editor of the Finance channel, is a former business journalist for the online Wall Street Journal and CNET Networks. She focuses on consumer issues including finance and personal technology, as well as consumer marketing and advertising. Stephanie's father died following a sudden stroke in 2005, so she is intimately familiar with the emotional and financial issues that are faced by adult children following the death or catastrophic illness of a parent.

144. Stephanie Trelogan, Caring.com senior editor

     

     Stephanie Trelogan is Senior Editor of the Heart, Stroke, and Depression channels. Older people in Stephanie's family have coped with a variety of stroke- and heart-related conditions, and several family membersincluding Stephaniehave struggled with depression.

145. Steve Weisman, Caring.com Expert

     

     Steve Weisman hosts the nationally syndicated radio show A Touch of Grey, heard on more than 50 stations, including WABC in New York City and KRLA in Los Angeles. He is a practicing lawyer specializing in estate planning and is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. He's a public speaker and commentator who has appeared on many radio and television shows throughout the country, and he's the legal editor of Talkers magazine, the preeminent trade publication of talk radio.

     Weisman has also taught at the University of Massachusetts, Curry College, and Boston University. Presently, he's a senior lecturer at Bentley College. Steve is the author of A Guide to Elder Planning: Everything You Need to Know to Protect Yourself Legally and Financially, Boomer or Bust: Your Financial Guide to Retirement, Health Care, Medicare, and Long-Term Care, and 50 Ways to Protect Your Identity and Your Credit: Everything You Need to Know About Identity Theft, Credit Cards, Credit Repair, and Credit Reports. His latest book is The Truth About Avoiding Scams.

146. Steven Y. Park, M.D., Caring.com Expert

     

     Steven Y. Park, M.D., is a surgeon, blogger (doctorstevenpark.com), and author of the book Sleep, Interrupted: A Physician Reveals the #1 Reason Why So Many of Us Are Sick and Tired. He is a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and is a board-certified otolaryngologist specializing in diagnosing and treating sleep-breathing problems such as obstructive sleep apnea, snoring, and upper airway resistance syndrome.

     Park lectures regularly to the medical field and to the general public about the importance of proper breathing while we sleep, something most people take for granted. Dr. Park is frequently invited to speak on radio shows and at seminars and workshops about how people can breathe better, sleep better, and live better.

147. Susan Frick, Caring.com Expert

     Susan Frick is a social worker at the Rush University Alzheimer's Disease Center in Chicago. She has worked in the fields of Alzheimer's care and long-term care for 20 years.

148. Susan Imke, Caring.com expert

     Susan Imke is a gerontological nurse practitioner in Fort Worth, Texas, and coauthor of The Comfort of Home for Parkinson's Disease: A Guide for Caregivers.

149. Susan Kostal, Caring.com senior editor

     Susan Kostal, Senior Editor of the Legal channel, has covered legal affairs issues as a journalist for more than 20 years. Her work has appeared in San Francisco magazine, ABA Journal , and California Lawyer , and on Law.com . She is also an editor for private foundations focusing on policy and healthcare, and she runs roundtable discussions for attorneys and other professional service firms. Susan is a graduate of Drake University and holds a bachelor's degree in news and editorial journalism.

     She enjoys keeping up with the many sports activities of her three daughters and notes that her favorite exercise class at the gym is one for seniors. She is the youngest in the class by at least 15 years, and she finds that her most inspiring workout buddies are those in their 60s and 70s. While her parents are healthy and active, Susan is grateful they've understood the importance of planning for their futures and have established trusts, wills, living wills, and durable powers of attorney

150. Terry Anders, Caring.com Expert

     Terry Anders is a registered nurse and clinical educator at the Zangmeister Cancer Center in Columbus, Ohio.

151. Theresa Garnero, Caring.com Expert

     

     Theresa Garnero is clinical nurse manager of Diabetes Services at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. A certified diabetes educator, she's the author of DIABETease: A Lighter Look at the Serious Subject of Diabetes. She also wrote a daily guide to living with diabetes for the American Diabetes Association, scheduled for publication in fall 2008. She was named Diabetes Educator of the Year by the American Association of Diabetes Educators for 2004-2005.

152. Virginia D. Frantz RN, Caring.com Expert

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153. Wendy Wank, Caring.com Expert

     Wendy Wank is a palliative care nurse practitioner at Hospice by the Bay, in Larkspur, California.