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LET THERE BE LAW:
Empowering Aging Families
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
2:30 p.m. — 5:30 p.m.
The Heller School
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
MGA Massachusetts Gerontology Association
Annual Meeting & Spring Conference
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Robert Morris Joanne Bluestone
Elsie Frank Jim Callahan
Scott Harshbarger Sr Eileen Driscoll
Paul Raia Lillian Glickman
Anna Bissonnette Ed Flynn
Sandy Albright Alan Rosenfeld
Ellen Bruce Alan Balsam
Phyllis Mutschler Ann Hartstein
Nina M. Silverstein Chet Jakubiak
Joan Hatem-Roy Andrea Cohen
Richard Rowland
Frank Caro Barry Berman
Lowy Award Winners
Massachusetts Gerontology Association
Annual Meeting
LET THERE BE LAW
Empowering Aging Families
MGA extends appreciation to the Heller
School for hosting the annual meeting
and providing supporting services
Massachusetts Gerontology Association
Post Office Box 540513
Waltham, MA 02454—0513
www.massgeron.org
The mission of the Massachusetts Gerontology Association is to convene
researchers, practitioners, and public policymakers in Massachusetts to
create dialogue on critical issues related to aging, and to facilitate the
transfer of knowledge from academic research to day-to-day practice.
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Program
2:30 p.m. Registration & Student Posters
Refreshments
3:00 p.m. Welcome & Introductions
Louis Lowy Award Presentation
Remarks by Secretary of Elder Affairs
Ann L. Hartstein
Words of Remembrance for James J. Callahan
3:10 p.m. Keynote Address *
Marshall B. Kapp, J.D., M.P.H.
LET THERE BE LAW:
Empowering Aging Families
* Appreciation is extended to Stuart Altman, Sol
C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy at
Brandeis University, for his generous support of
this year’s keynote to honor Jim Callahan
4:00 p.m. Panel Response
Mary Catherine Bateson
Ellen A. Bruce
Donald N. Freedman
4:30 p.m.
4:55 p.m.
5:00 p.m.
Audience Discussion
Student Awards Presentation
Business Meeting and Reception
Speaker Biography
Marshall B. Kapp was educated at Johns Hopkins University (B.A.), George Washington University Law School (J.D. with Honors), and Harvard University School of Public Health (M.P.H.). He is the Direc-tor of the Florida State University Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine and Law. He is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and of the American College of Legal Medicine.
Mary Catherine Bateson is a cultural anthropologist and author. Bateson attended Radcliffe (B.A.) and Harvard University (Ph.D.). She has taught at Harvard, Northeastern, and Amherst College, as well as overseas in the Philip-pines and Iran. Her books include: With a Daughter’s Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson.
Ellen A. Bruce attended Wellesley College (B.A.) and Northeastern University School of Law (J.D.) and is Director of the Gerontology Institute of the McCor-mack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massa-chusetts Boston. Ellen is also an Associate Professor in the Gerontology Depart-ment, teaching law and public policy courses in the Gerontology Graduate Program at UMass—Boston.
Donald N. Freedman is a graduate of Brandeis University and Boston College Law School (J.D.). He is a principal of the firm of Rosenberg, Freedman & Goldstein LLP, of Newton, where he leads a team that concentrates on meeting the legal needs of elders. He is a past board chair of the Alzheimer’s Association of Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Respondents
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2011 Louis Lowy Award Recipients
Named after the founder and first President of the Massachusetts
Gerontology Association, the Louis Lowy Award is given to individuals for
distinguished contributions to the field of aging in Massachusetts.
This year MGA is honored to present the Louise Lowy Award to
Barry Berman and Frank Caro
Barry Berman has devoted his career to building the long-term care commu-
nity in Chelsea and surrounding areas by developing innovative models of
care. He has been the CEO of the Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home/Chelsea
Jewish Foundation for 34 years, since completing his master degree rehabili-
tation administration.
Mr. Berman began his tenure in Chelsea by expanding and rebuilding the
Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home in 1983. In collaboration with his colleagues,
he then built the Cohen-Florence-Levine Estates, Massachusetts’ first mixed-
income assisted living which opened in 1996. The team then developed the
Florence and Chafetz Home for Specialized Care (2002), a more enhanced as-
sisted living targeted to those with dementia and other compromising condi-
tions. The organization also operates three community programs: the Manuel
R. Grell Home Care Agency, the Gilda and Bob Richman Personal Care Agen-
cy, and the Dr. Matthew S. Shwartz Hospice and Palliative Care Agency. The
Leonard Florence Center for Living, a Green House® model nursing home
and the first urban one in the nation, opened in February 2010. The Leonard
Florence Center provides skilled nursing care in a home environment to the
elderly and those with medical and physical disabilities. Two of the Green
House homes at the Leonard Florence Center serve those with ALS (Lou Geh-
rig’s disease) and multiple sclerosis, the first such residences in the nation.
Mr. Berman is on the Board of Directors of the ALS Association Massachu-
setts Chapter and the Chelsea Soldier’s Home. In the past he has served on
the Massachusetts Governor’s Council of Assisted Living, the Board of Direc-
tors for the Massachusetts Assisted Living Facilities Association, and the
Board of Directors for the Massachusetts Aging Services Association.
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Louis Lowy Award
Frank Caro (Ph.D., University of Minnesota) has been a leader in aging
policy and education in Massachusetts since coming here in 1970. In that year
he was Associate Director of the Levinson Gerontological Policy Institute at
Brandeis University, and subsequently became Associate Professor of Social
Research at the Heller School.
Dr. Caro did a decade long stint as Director of Research for the Community
Service Society of New York, returning to Boston as Professor of Gerontology
and Director of the Research Division of the Gerontology Institute at Universi-
ty of Massachusetts Boston (UMB). He then served as the Director of the Ger-
ontology Institute and Gerontology Programs at UMB.
His leadership contributed to the Institute becoming a center for state policy
development, issuing paper after paper on gerontology issues as they emerged
in public policy debates in the state legislature and in public agencies. He
helped develop advocacy and support programs for older citizens of the Com-
monwealth and for those interested in aging policy in the state. He did this
working collaboratively with his colleagues at UMB and other diverse groups
and individuals. At the same time Dr. Caro was working locally on research
and policy issues, he become a national leader in gerontology and long term
care research. Like many senior academic figures Dr. Caro’s resume features
a very long publications list. However his list includes a level of innovation
and originality which is unusual even within this rarefied group. He has de-
veloped innovative research approaches, and his work with colleagues in
Productive Aging and in home care services is particularly notable.
Dr. Caro has taught thousands of students from the certificate student to post
doctoral fellows, who now pepper the aging community in Massachusetts. He
brings freshness and energy to teaching that is regrettably rare – time and
again attempting to find new ways to present routine material. Though
Emeritus, he continues to maintain an active research agenda and teach at
UMB. And, his work as a leader and supporter of MGA has made a lasting and
vital contribution to the organization.
MGA 2011 Student Posters
The Effect of Control Beliefs on Memory for Gist-Related
Information. Margeaux V. Auslander, Brandeis University
The Policies of Retirement: Fiscal Responsibility vs. Human
Capability. Kathryn Casey, Boston College
Self-Relevant Strategy Use Differentially Affects Memory for
Impressions in Older Adults. Brittany S. Cassidy, Brandeis University
Understanding the Discharge Process: Decision Making, Risk
Scenarios and Funding Issues involved in Home and Community-
Based Care. Yvonne Decelis, Nichols, Deborah Wheeler Ramos, Emily
Patridge, Fabiola Alvarez, Patience Sanusi, Wanda Scott, Nadine Lender,
University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Effects of Self-Construal Priming on Associative Memory with Age.
Hyeon Nyeon Lee, Brandeis University
Supplemental Transportation Programs for Seniors: Safe and
Helpful Options. Maryann Nguyen, Ellen Bernardi, Cynthia Duryee,
Matt Gauvain, Grace MacKinnon, Paul Rinaldi, William Perry, Lorraine
Weaver, Joyce Williams-Mitchell, University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Social Capital and Health among Older Adults in China:
The Urban-Rural Dimension. Julie A. Norstrand, Boston College
The Effects of Religiosity on the Onset and Recovery from
Depression in Older Adults. Corina R. Oala, University of
Massachusetts, Boston
Policy Brief: Financial Exploitation among Older Adults.
Christa Smith, Boston College
Sexual Education for Older Adults. Cristina Sousa, Boston College
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False Memory in Aging as a Result of Self-Referencing.
Nicole M. Rosa, Brandeis University
Guiding the Next Generation of Social Workers: The Lowy-GEM Pro-
gram on Aging. Mariejose Dorvilier, Karin Lauff Wannamaker,
Megan Stolze, William Tan, Boston University
Planning for End-of-Life Care: Considerations when Presenting
to Older Adults. Kathryn Casey, Boston College
Why Medicare Should Pay for Dental Coverage. Marie Betsy Connolly,
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Community-Based Older Adults and Fear of Falling. Janet Popp,
University of Massachusetts, Boston
MGA 2011 Student Papers
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Massachusetts
Gerontology
Association
Dear Colleague,
Thank you for your support of the Massachusetts Gerontology Association (MGA) and the
important work it has done to promote dialogue in the community on critical issues in aging.
As a member, you receive all of MGA’s services including the MGA website, the MGA Direc-
tory, reduced registration fees for MGA conferences, seminars and workshops, and continuing
education credits offered for our programs.
There are opportunities to meet and network with colleagues with similar interests from
across the state, and participation in a statewide resource exchange of education, research
efforts and community services. Please contribute to these efforts by participating in these
services.
In 2011 - 2012, we will continue developing our website resources, planning our programs,
and interacting with other members. We are also looking to expand our Board to include the
diversity of stakeholders in the elder community, and solicit your assistance with these is-
sues.
This year’s annual meeting topic is an especially timely and important one regarding the
issues around both ensuring protection as well as respecting the autonomy of elders. It fea-
tures Marshall Kapp, Mary Catherine. Bateson, Ellen A. Bruce, and Donald N. Freedman.
Membership in MGA, networking with old friends and meeting new ones at our events and
working with others in the community of elder work is enjoyable and invigorating. Please
take a moment to renew your membership.
Your support of the organization will help MGA continue to be the aging policy forum for
Massachusetts that it has been for 40 years.
I look forward to working with you in the coming year.
Please contact me with any questions.
Sarita Malik Bhalotra, MD, PhD
President . Massachusetts Gerontology Association
info@massgeron.org
A Statewide Organization Advancing the Field of Aging
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MASSACHUSETTS GERONTOLOGY ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Officers
Sarita Bhalotra (Brandeis University), President
Joann M. Montepare (Lasell College), Vice President
Lisa Gurgone (MA Council for Home Care Aide Services), Treasurer
Carol McCarron (Westwood COA), Secretary
Members
Mary DeRoo, Elder Services of the Merrimack Valley
Joan Hyde, Ivy Hall Senior Living
K.R. Kaffenberger, Rehabilitation Associates / UMass Boston
Emily Meyer, Mass-ALFA
Charlene Neu, Tufts University
Mary Surin, Brandeis University
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If you would like to work with the executive committee,
please contact us at info@massgeron.org.
The RoseMary B. Fuss Center for Research on Aging
and Intergenerational Studies, is dedicated to enhanc-
ing the quality of life for older adults through research,
community partnerships, and teaching focused on aging,
lifelong learning, and intergenerational programs.
For more information contact, Joann M. Montepare, Director
Lasell College
1844 Commonwealth Avenue
Newton, MA 02466
Phone: 617-663-7006 / jmontepare@lasell.edu
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Visit DWN at the Newton Cultural Center
225 Nevada Street Newton, MA 02460 617-467-5438
www.discoveringwhatsnext.com
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Feasibility, Consulting, Research
and Ongoing Management
for
Innovative Senior Housing,
Technology & Service Delivery
Contact Joan Hyde, PhD – hyde@ivyhallseniorliving.com
20 Park Plaza, Suite 400 | Boston, MA 02116 | 617.247.2132
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MGA Thanks its 2010-2011
Organizational Members
AARP Massachusetts
BayPath Elder Services
Boston Elder Info
Boston Senior Home Care
Brandeis University
Brookhaven at Lexington
Elder Services of the Merrimack Valley
Hale House
HESSCO Elder Services
Houseworks, LLC
Jewish Geriatric Services, Inc.
Kit Clark Senior Services
MCOA
Mystic Valley Elder Services, Inc.
RoseMary B. Fuss Center for Research on Aging
and Intergenerational Studies, Lasell College
Long Term Support Studies
Old Colony Elderly Services
Senior Whole Health
Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services
South Shore Elder Services, Inc.
The Cambridge Homes, Inc.
UMASS Boston
Weston Council on Aging