National Expert on Transitional Care for Elders to Speak at UA Sept. 12

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Dr. Mary D. Naylor, renowned national expert on caregiving and transition issues involving the elderly, will present “Transitional care for Older Adults: Bridging Science and Clinical Practice” Monday, Sept. 12 at noon in the AIME Building, room 111, on The University of Alabama campus.

Naylor, the Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology in the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, has made presentations worldwide and been awarded numerous grants on the issue of transitional care from such prestigious organizations as The National Institutes of Health, The National Institute of Nursing Research, the RAND Corporation and the John A. Hartford Foundation. She has also given testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Veterans Affairs, the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging and the Presidential Commission on the HIV Epidemic, on behalf of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

Naylor’s lecture is the first of the UA’s Center for Mental Health and Aging’s 2005-06 Scientific Seminar Series. The event is free and open to the public.

Lunch will be provided at both presentations and continuing education units are available for social work and psychology.

The UA Center for Mental Health and Aging concentrates on the areas of elder care giving, mental health of rural elders, quality of care in nursing homes and palliative care and end-of-life issues. The center strives to facilitate collaborative relationships among UA faculty, graduate students, Alabama consumers and families of consumers of mental health services and human service delivery organizations on the local, state and federal levels.

For more information, contact Denise Cleveland, CMHA Administrator, at 205/348-7512.