Reframing to Prevent Elderspeak Webinar

Mary Lou is a licensed attorney who practiced in Brunswick, Maine for 17 years before leaving private practice to help her family renovate and expand their private assisted living home in Bath, Maine. She was the Administrator of HillHouse Assisted Living for 10 years during which time she returned to graduate school at the University of Southern Maine’s Muskie School of Public Service to obtain a master’s degree in health policy. She later worked at the Muskie School as a senior policy associate in the area of disability and aging. She currently teaches Public Health Policy and Public Health Law at the University of New England’s Graduate Programs in Public Health and teaches Heath Policy to UNE’s undergraduate public health students. Mary Lou received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and her law degree from the University of New Hampshire’s Franklin Pierce School of Law. She has a particular interest in ageism and recently completed the Gerontological Society of America’s and the FrameWorks Institute’s Reframing Aging Facilitator training.

Erin Emery-Tiburcio, PhD, ABPP, is a professor of Geriatric and Rehabilitation Psychology and co-director of the Center for Excellence in Aging at RUSH University Medical Center. She completed her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Bowling Green State University, residency at Harvard Medical School/VA Boston and her fellowship in clinical geropsychology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

She is past-president of the Society for Clinical Geropsychology within the American Psychological Association, where she developed GeroCentral.org, a clearinghouse for geriatric mental health resources. She currently serves as chair of the American Psychological Association’s Committee on Aging. Emery-Tiburcio is co-director of the Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program of Illinois based at RUSH University Medical Center, which is developing multiple educational programs for all levels of professionals who work with older adults, as well as partnering with primary care clinics across the state to transform care for older adults with multiple chronic conditions (www.catch-on.org).

She also co-directs the RUSH Center for Excellence in Aging, which integrates RUSH’s foundation of leading-edge research, health care and aging education, evidenced-based clinical practice, community engagement and local and national policy change (aging.rush.edu).