2013 HASC Conference on Aging
Thank you to everyone who attended the inaugural HASC Conference on Aging, Oct. 15, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Anaheim.
Download the speaker presentations below.
For more information, please contact Maria Velez, (714) 750-2688, mvelez@hasc.org.
Presentations
Keynote Speaker
The New Age of Aging: Promise and Peril in our Changing World
W. June Simmons, President and CEO, Partners in Care Foundation
Breakout Session 1
Track 1: Financial Support
Elder Abuse Victim – What the Public Guardian Can Do
Desiree Davis, Supervising Deputy Public Guardian – Probate Unit and Matt George, Deputy Public Guardian II – Probate Unit
Track 2: Clinical Innovation
Teaching Good Bedside Manners for Dementia Care: Art and Science
Lené Levy-Storms, Associate Professor, Department of Social Welfare and Medicine/Geriatrics Social Welfare, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Track 3: Caregiver Support & Community Resources
Beyond Walls: Partnering with Patients, Caregivers, and Community Providers for Better Outcomes
Eileen Koons, Director, Huntington Hospital Senior Care Network
Breakout Session 2
Track 1: Financial Support
Detecting and Responding to Suspected Elder Abuse and Neglect
Kerry Burnight, PhD, Professor Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology; Director, Elder Abuse Forensic Center, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
Track 2: Clinical Innovation
Innovations in the Healthcare of Older Patients: The Use of Remote Monitoring Technology
Lisa Gibbs, MD,
University of California, Irvine SeniorHealth Center
and Raciela Austin, NP, University of California, Irvine
SeniorHealth Center
Track 3: Caregiver Support & Community Resources
Claudia Ellano-Ota, LCSW, Executive Director, Caregiver Resource Center – Orange County
Breakout Session 3
Track 1: Financial Support
Incapacity Planning: What are the Best Legal Tools?
Darlynn Morgan, Attorney, Morgan Law Group
Track 2: Clinical Innovation
Hospitals Profit by Keeping Chronic Patients at Home—For Life
Jacques von Speyer, Chairman and CEO, U.S. Tele-Medicine
Track 3: Caregiver Support & Community Resources
How do I Give Compassion and Not Be Overwhelmed With Emotion?
Debbie Ricker, OTR, Life Care Centers of America
Closing Speaker
ADRCs: Making Community Connections
Karol Swartzlander, ADRC Program Director, California Health and Human Services Agency
About the Speakers
Raciela B. Austin, RN, NP, is currently an assistant professor of geriatrics and gerontology at UC Irvine School of Medicine. She is also a certified adult nurse practitioner and gerontologic nurse practitioner with research experience working with pressure ulcers and elder abuse under a grant provided by the National Institute of Justice. Her articles on best practices in elder care can be read in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and other established publications.
Kerry Burnight, Ph.D., is an associate professor in Geriatric Medicine the University of California at Irvine’s College of Medicine. Dr. Burnight’s research includes work on the medical forensic aspects of elder abuse, multidisciplinary approached to elder abuse, and spirituality and aging. Before joining UCI, Burnight was a Congressional Fellow with the U.S. House of Representative’s Select Committee on Aging.
Desiree Davis, a Supervising Deputy Public Guardian with Orange County, has worked for the County of Orange for 19 years. As Supervising Deputy, she is responsible for the overall management/supervision of the Probate Unit, whose function is to investigate referrals from Adult Protective Services and the community involving elder abuse and vulnerable adult cases. She oversees the daily management of probate administrations, trusts and guardianships. She is a member of the County’s Vulnerable Adult Specialist Team, working with Adult Protective Services, County Counsel, OC Sherriff, OC District Attorney, Older Adult Services and other County Agencies.
Claudia Ellano-Ota, LCSW, is executive director, Caregiver Resource Center – Orange, and the Brain Injury Network programs of St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, CA. Her career has spanned mental health, administration, public policy and community work with adult and older adult populations. Ms. Ellano-Ota has been on the faculty at California State University, Long Beach, School of Social Work since 1985.
Matt George, a Deputy Public Guardian II, has worked for the Public Guardian’s Office for the past five years. In this role, Mr. George has conducted probate and LPS investigations, and has managed administration caseloads in both probate and LPS Units, as well. He has represented the office as a team member of the Vulnerable Adult Specialist Team and is a member of the California Association of Public Administrators, Public Guardians and Public Conservators.
Lisa Gibbs, MD, is currently an assistant clinical professor in the program in Geriatrics at the University of California, Irvine. She is board certified in Family Medicine and Geriatric Medicine. Dr. Gibbs is a member of the Vulnerable Adult Specialist Team and a frequent speaker on topics such as dementia, depression, elder abuse, healthy aging, and primary care of adults with disabilities.
Eileen Koons, MSW, ACSW, is director of Huntington Hospital Senior Care Network which provides home and community-based care coordination, health education, information and resources to community-dwelling frail and functionally-impaired individuals and family caregivers. Ms. Koons serves in leadership and advocacy roles statewide, including president of the MSSP Site Association and the advisory committee of the federally-funded Aging and Disability Resource Center statewide planning grant. Ms. Koons began her career in health and aging services 25 years ago as a medical social worker.
Lené Levy-Storms, Ph.D., is associate professor, Department of Social Welfare and Medicine/Geriatrics Social Welfare, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Her core research concerns communication issues between health care providers and patients. In 2003, Dr. Levy-Storms began a five-year study focused on communication issues between nursing home staff and frail, older residents during care. From 1998-2000, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Gerontology and a fellow of the Sealy Center on Aging at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX. She joined UCLA in 2000.
Darlynn Morgan, J.D., heads Morgan Law Group, a practice focuses exclusively in the area of trusts and estates. Prior to her own practice, she handled complex bankruptcy and business litigation matters for Albert, Weiland & Goldman, and clerked in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. She sits on the board of several community organizations including Mission Valley Bank and Human Options, and she speaks about elder and caregiver finances at several community organizations throughout Orange County.
Debbie Ricker, OTR, Regional Rehab Director, Life Care Centers of America, has extensive experience working in psychiatric hospitals, adult day care, and geriatric facilities. She is certified in occupational therapy, dementia care and geriatric wellness, and has owned her own intervention services organizations, and currently speaks on topics related to abuse, neglect, dementia and stress management.
June Simmons, MSW, is the founding president and CEO of Partners in Care Foundation. She actively develops initiatives and proactive programs which meet the mutual needs of patient populations, providers and health care delivery networks to encourage cost-effective, patient-friendly integration of care from hospital to home and community. Currently a member of the National Advisory Council to the National Institute on Aging, her other national roles have included the Practice Change Fellows, a national mentoring initiative to advance innovations in the development of managed care models for caring for the aging population. She also served on the National Board of the American Society on Aging.
Karol Swartzlander is the state ADRC program director. Since 2007, Ms. Swartzlander has provided leadership on multiple federal grants (Systems Transformation, Real Choice Systems Change, Aging and Disability Resource Center) for the California Health and Human Services Agency. Her 12 years of state service also include tenures with the Departments of Aging and Health Care Services. Prior to state service, she worked in the fields of international aging and education in the U.S., Thailand and Japan.
Jacques von Speyer, Chairman and CEO, U.S. Tele-Medicine, has a broad range of experience building businesses in finance, agriculture, urban planning, manufacturing and real estate. Since beginning in 2008, Mr. von Speyer has become one of the world’s leading experts on telemedicine. He and his wife founded The National Telemedicine Foundation Inc. supporting telemedicine development efforts in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa.